Curious towing experience

[KvonBCO]

Towed for the second time yesterday, pulling my boat and trailer back from winter storage. It's only about 25 miles and the total weight is about 3,000 lbs. Hooked up the trailer with 229 miles of range. The switch to tow mode automatically adjusted the range way down as expected, but as I drove it steadily ticked up and up, until it reached about 289 miles of range when I got home, 25 miles later. After unhooking and going back to All Purpose mode range went down to 197 miles, which felt about right (and was really minimal range loss while towing). The only other time I towed was the same trip in reverse and the range estimates hopped around a bit but weren't that far off while towing and it took a bigger hit on the range, granted that was December and it was much colder. The trip is basically flat.

Anyone have an experience like that? Seems like something is definitely off with the range estimates while towing, but the overall effect and towing experience was great. You can't even feel the 3,000 lbs back there. Coming from a Silverado 1500 with A 5.7 liter V8 this is sooooo much better.

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[Rivedup]

I agree. The Towing experience is great with all that torque. I have the same situation with the Range calculating a higher distance while towing than I would expect to get. Then after unhooking the trailer it shows a number that I would think would be lower after the amount of weight, approx. 8000lbs I was pulling. I grew up in Fort Collins and haven't been back in a while. I bet it's really changed.

 

[Goose]

Apparently the guess-O-meter is pretty off when towing. It's probably better to just go by the percentage and do some head math based off real time efficiency. What mi/kwh were you seeing when pulling the boat the 25 miles?

 

[IHScout]

Towed for the second time yesterday, pulling my boat and trailer back from winter storage. It's only about 25 miles and the total weight is about 3,000 lbs. Hooked up the trailer with 229 miles of range. The switch to tow mode automatically adjusted the range way down as expected, but as I drove it steadily ticked up and up, until it reached about 289 miles of range when I got home, 25 miles later. After unhooking and going back to All Purpose mode range went down to 197 miles, which felt about right (and was really minimal range loss while towing). The only other time I towed was the same trip in reverse and the range estimates hopped around a bit but weren't that far off while towing and it took a bigger hit on the range, granted that was December and it was much colder. The trip is basically flat.

Anyone have an experience like that? Seems like something is definitely off with the range estimates while towing, but the overall effect and towing experience was great. You can't even feel the 3,000 lbs back there. Coming from a Silverado 1500 with A 5.7 liter V8 this is sooooo much better.

That happens to me as well. Curious, what year is your Silverado? They haven't put a 5.7L in their trucks since 1998 I believe.

 

[Donald Stanfield]

Yeah mine has bounced around a bunch while towing. It’s better than it was, it used to show like 600 miles range, but it’s still not great. I’ll live with it because the actual towing is the best I’ve ever had out of a truck.

 

[ColoradoAdventure]

The lead software engineer confirmed via reddit that they are working on an OTA to fix this issue.

 

[KvonBCO]

OK, I feel better now. I talked to Rivian service and they basically told me the same thing as above. Range estimates go up and fluctuate currently while towing, but she said that was "normal". Glad to hear it'll be fixed s00n.

-Fort Collins has definitely changed, but it's still great. Small town feel with everything you need and an hour from Denver.
-Honestly didn't look at the mi/kwh on this trip. I'll be paying attention as I start pulling it around more this summer.
-You're right- it was a 5.3 liter, 2006.
-Honestly very pleasantly surprised that the range hit was so minimal, and yeah, the towing experience is so effortless. I'm so tempted to test the 0-60 time with the boat attached, but something tells me that's inviting trouble

 

[jakef801]

Same here on the jump in range estimate in tow mode.

 

[Thedude]

They have “fixed” the towing range estimate several times and never got it working again. Whatever software version was about 6 months ago was the only one I’ve had that’s been decent.

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