Charging History Data needs some help

[NDIrish]

Maybe I am not seeing things correctly but the I am not seeing the Charging history in the app being useful. Cannot download, doesn't designate vehicle, co-mingles data from vehicle with data from charger without differentiation.

It may be fine for a majority of users (1 vehicle, 1 charger) but I think I am an expected average user.

I have an R1T, I have the RAN Charger at home as my main charging point, and I have occasionally used other chargers (1 RAN and a few other Pay ones, EA and Volta). ALSO I have had a loaner from Rivian for about 2 weeks (so maybe 2 Riv families see my issue, or someone that also charges a 2nd EV on their charger).

I track my charging in a Google Forms, because I am a data nerd. And after doing this for many months I thought I would see if the Rivian App has any updates that make it useful. I was surprised to see entries in the Charging History for this past week, when I haven't charged my truck. My Sheet ends on 12/12/2023 which is my last entry before my vehicle went to service, but I have a few entries in the App since then. That is when I realized it is documenting the sessions on my charger AND the sessions for my R1T in the same history with no differentiation.

So I scrolled through the history and also noticed that the location is blank if I charged at an EA station. But when I charged at home or a RAN it logged the location.

It logged the location of my home charger when I charged the Loaner vehicle, but I can't tell that it was not my R1T and that it was a different vehicle.

So in Short, at minimum it should designate the Vehicle so if I could export the data (haven't figured that out) then I could sort out the loaner from my R1T. I guess location being blank for 3rd party chargers is ok, that can be handled, but I never like blank data; so minimum GPS location or just state "3rd Party". Seems every charger should have some sort of an ID. Also would be nice to have some more direct data on kW or Amps or charge speed. or start and end battery. Maybe could log the odometer at start of charge. (I currently record date, mileage, start%, end%, total kWh consumed, comments). I then do math from there to help me better understand my usage and this helps plan trips. Biggest thing it helped me learn, is that off-roading in the EV doesn't make me as nervous as I thought, it consumes energy per mi much more efficiently than my Jeep which was really energy per hour. ie. EV going slow off road doesn't suck the energy much different than driving the same miles to and from work. it's distance in length and in elevation, but if doing a circuit, you gain much of the elevation back coming down.

From this experience I have added 2 columns to my spreadsheet. Location and Vehicle. Before this I just noted the location in my notes for the session. And wrote over the cost column for pay stations (normally it's just a calculation of my non-peak $/kWh * kWh added; since most charging I do is overnight on off-peak or weekends or before recently free at a RAN).

Would be nice one day to just dump the data from the app, or develop a dashboard from vehicle data directly.

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[the_mace]

Maybe I am not seeing things correctly but the I am not seeing the Charging history in the app being useful. Cannot download, doesn't designate vehicle, co-mingles data from vehicle with data from charger without differentiation.

It may be fine for a majority of users (1 vehicle, 1 charger) but I think I am an expected average user.

I have an R1T, I have the RAN Charger at home as my main charging point, and I have occasionally used other chargers (1 RAN and a few other Pay ones, EA and Volta). ALSO I have had a loaner from Rivian for about 2 weeks (so maybe 2 Riv families see my issue, or someone that also charges a 2nd EV on their charger).

I track my charging in a Google Forms, because I am a data nerd. And after doing this for many months I thought I would see if the Rivian App has any updates that make it useful. I was surprised to see entries in the Charging History for this past week, when I haven't charged my truck. My Sheet ends on 12/12/2023 which is my last entry before my vehicle went to service, but I have a few entries in the App since then. That is when I realized it is documenting the sessions on my charger AND the sessions for my R1T in the same history with no differentiation.

So I scrolled through the history and also noticed that the location is blank if I charged at an EA station. But when I charged at home or a RAN it logged the location.

It logged the location of my home charger when I charged the Loaner vehicle, but I can't tell that it was not my R1T and that it was a different vehicle.

So in Short, at minimum it should designate the Vehicle so if I could export the data (haven't figured that out) then I could sort out the loaner from my R1T. I guess location being blank for 3rd party chargers is ok, that can be handled, but I never like blank data; so minimum GPS location or just state "3rd Party". Seems every charger should have some sort of an ID. Also would be nice to have some more direct data on kW or Amps or charge speed. or start and end battery. Maybe could log the odometer at start of charge. (I currently record date, mileage, start%, end%, total kWh consumed, comments). I then do math from there to help me better understand my usage and this helps plan trips. Biggest thing it helped me learn, is that off-roading in the EV doesn't make me as nervous as I thought, it consumes energy per mi much more efficiently than my Jeep which was really energy per hour. ie. EV going slow off road doesn't suck the energy much different than driving the same miles to and from work. it's distance in length and in elevation, but if doing a circuit, you gain much of the elevation back coming down.

From this experience I have added 2 columns to my spreadsheet. Location and Vehicle. Before this I just noted the location in my notes for the session. And wrote over the cost column for pay stations (normally it's just a calculation of my non-peak $/kWh * kWh added; since most charging I do is overnight on off-peak or weekends or before recently free at a RAN).

Would be nice one day to just dump the data from the app, or develop a dashboard from vehicle data directly.

If you're adventurous you can try something like this to fetch data:
https://github.com/the-mace/rivian-python-api
I use that to tweet daily miles and collect all sorts of data.
There's a Ruby one too if that's more your thing.
Both have CLI's and are open source.
Disclaimer: Im the author of both.

Some third parties have hosted monitoring, I think TeslaFi is one of them if you're ok with the security implications of those.

 

[SRO]

Maybe I am not seeing things correctly but the I am not seeing the Charging history in the app being useful. Cannot download, doesn't designate vehicle, co-mingles data from vehicle with data from charger without differentiation.

It may be fine for a majority of users (1 vehicle, 1 charger) but I think I am an expected average user.

I have an R1T, I have the RAN Charger at home as my main charging point, and I have occasionally used other chargers (1 RAN and a few other Pay ones, EA and Volta). ALSO I have had a loaner from Rivian for about 2 weeks (so maybe 2 Riv families see my issue, or someone that also charges a 2nd EV on their charger).

I track my charging in a Google Forms, because I am a data nerd. And after doing this for many months I thought I would see if the Rivian App has any updates that make it useful. I was surprised to see entries in the Charging History for this past week, when I haven't charged my truck. My Sheet ends on 12/12/2023 which is my last entry before my vehicle went to service, but I have a few entries in the App since then. That is when I realized it is documenting the sessions on my charger AND the sessions for my R1T in the same history with no differentiation.

So I scrolled through the history and also noticed that the location is blank if I charged at an EA station. But when I charged at home or a RAN it logged the location.

It logged the location of my home charger when I charged the Loaner vehicle, but I can't tell that it was not my R1T and that it was a different vehicle.

So in Short, at minimum it should designate the Vehicle so if I could export the data (haven't figured that out) then I could sort out the loaner from my R1T. I guess location being blank for 3rd party chargers is ok, that can be handled, but I never like blank data; so minimum GPS location or just state "3rd Party". Seems every charger should have some sort of an ID. Also would be nice to have some more direct data on kW or Amps or charge speed. or start and end battery. Maybe could log the odometer at start of charge. (I currently record date, mileage, start%, end%, total kWh consumed, comments). I then do math from there to help me better understand my usage and this helps plan trips. Biggest thing it helped me learn, is that off-roading in the EV doesn't make me as nervous as I thought, it consumes energy per mi much more efficiently than my Jeep which was really energy per hour. ie. EV going slow off road doesn't suck the energy much different than driving the same miles to and from work. it's distance in length and in elevation, but if doing a circuit, you gain much of the elevation back coming down.

From this experience I have added 2 columns to my spreadsheet. Location and Vehicle. Before this I just noted the location in my notes for the session. And wrote over the cost column for pay stations (normally it's just a calculation of my non-peak $/kWh * kWh added; since most charging I do is overnight on off-peak or weekends or before recently free at a RAN).

Would be nice one day to just dump the data from the app, or develop a dashboard from vehicle data directly.

I agree odometer reading would be great. What does your history show for charge time mine shows time of plug in to time of plug removal which is useless. Example 42 kWh charged in 17+ hours.

 

[NDIrish]

Agree, it's total time plugged in which is pointless as you say

Would be nice to have time at different charge rates (like in summer when it slows down due to temp, etc)

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