Camping range anxiety

[CJdergroße]

So this is going to be my first time taking it decently away from a charger, and I must admit I have some range anxiety. The campground states no electrical hookups. So up there I’m on my own. I do have a 1kW battery with small solar panels, not enough to adequately charge my truck.

The main road is closed, so I’m going to have to take the 180 up and around. Google Maps shows this as 81mi.

ABRP says I’ll arrive (using waypoints - because their navigation is not current to the road closure) at 56%. I did the reverse route and shows I’ll return at 25%.

Does anyone have any experience driving up to Lodgepole Campground? Any insight?

We have other vehicles we could take up, but I really want to use my truck. Use the air compressor to blow up stuff, my electrical outlet to power tent and cooking equipment.

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[WSea]

You should be fine especially since it looks like a lot of downhill on return. Last camping trip camp mode used about 2% with cooler plugged in Overnight

 

[mikehmb]

I think you’ll be -fine-. There’s an EVGo in Visalia that’s a little closer if that helps take the edge off.

Just keep your speeds low and take it easy on the climb up. You’ll get a ton of regen on your way back down the hill.

 

[CJdergroße]

Ok so after a bit more researching, I'm going to go up farther to the Fresno Walmart EA/EVgo and go east on the 180. Leaving at 100%, arriving at the gate with 59%. Should be acceptable!

I'll let you guys/gals know how it goes.

Thanks!

 

[Andystroh]

I bet you'll be good. Try to start with a high %, use conserve on the highway where you dont need all purpose, and I find that just leaving outlets 'on' for extended times uses more than the actual use of the outlets, e.g. using them for cooking is never a problem (never see range drop), but if I leave them on overnight (without use) it seems to drain a couple percentage.

Enjoy the truck!

 

[CJdergroße]

Just thought I'd give an update, if anyone (even non-Rivian owners) find this post.

Left the Walmart EA Fresno with 100%, arrived up the hill at Lodgepole Campground at 62%/179mi.
The truck lost ~2% per day, though we were opening/closing the truck/bed/doors at least 50 times/day, waking it up over and over. Put it in shipping mode, and turned everything off manually, actually impressed how little vampire drain considering how I was using it.

Couple observations driving ~400mi each way to Sequoia.

This trip has made me 100% for NACS, I'm ready to hail the King, and swear to Elon. I never had this level of BS taking my Tesla up to Yosemite. I will never go back to a Tesla, but the current level of charging infrastructure is so garbage. Going up to Zion National Park later in the year, I'll just rent a Yukon/Tahoe, pay a couple hundred more in gas, and not be stressed out over factors out of my control.

And what is crazy is I used ABRP, EA charging App, Plugshare, the new ev driver would be SCREWED.

 

[SteveInBend]

@CJdergroße wrote: "I never had this level of BS taking my Tesla up to Yosemite."

Can you shed more light on what BS you encountered? I've used EA several times and never had any major issues. Of course,the R1T is my first EV and I've never owned a Tesla, so I don't have any points of comparison.

 

[CJdergroße]

@CJdergroße wrote: "I never had this level of BS taking my Tesla up to Yosemite."

Can you shed more light on what BS you encountered? I've used EA several times and never had any major issues. Of course,the R1T is my first EV and I've never owned a Tesla, so I don't have any points of comparison.

One stop at an EA station had all chargers reduced to 50kW because of “software upgrades & customer satisfaction”, on a holiday weekend.

2 different locations had one of the 4 chargers broken.

I had lines at several, where I went to other chargers, rather than waiting.

All issues I never encountered when I had my Tesla, at superchargers.

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