First 24 Hours with R2 - impressions, positives, nits

[godfodder0901]

Were you able to program liftgate height? Also was it easy to setup a garage door opener?

Garage door opener comes in the next update, and there is no programmable height for the lift gate.

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[bnolan]

Does the rear washer clean the backup camera on the R2?

 

[tate16t]

Did you experience any vampire drain?

 

[sparked]

Did you experience any vampire drain?

There was a promising post from another new R2 owner recently:

https://www.rivianforums.com/forum/...rison-to-r1t-efficiency-and-range-data.60868/

VAMPIRE DRAIN: Many, many threads on this forum about R1 vampire battery drain while parked. For 2 nights I left both our R1T and R2 unplugged in the garage over night with about 70% on the batteries. Using the "energy monitor" function on the software and looking at the "8 hour usage" screen I observed much less drain on the R2. The R1T had 0.9kwh and 0.8kwh those 2 nights. The R2 was 0.0 and 0.2 kwh. Encouraging.

 

[UnsungZero_OldTimeAdMan]

no we sold our Tesla when we got our first rivian. We had been using a J1772 charger with an adapter with our teslas. We just switched to a charger with the NACS connector because I read in the R1/R2 manual that they don’t recommend using an adapter for “daily charging”. I am not sure why maybe poorly designed chargers or adapters can have issues. They also say it may void the warranty so we bought an new NACS charge but not the rivian branded one since they didn’t say it had to be theirs.

That’s just the most broad and safest CYA for any corporation to adopt, because god knows which adapter the masses will buy and use (without reading a single page of the owner’s manual), then assume it’s the vehicle manufacturer’s fault when something goes wrong. A well engineered and manufactured adapter, with the correct fail safes built-in, should not have any problems. Regardless whether it’s AC or DC. Do not misinterpret as “adapters are not safe”. If that were true, ask why Rivian sells them and is/has given adapters to customers.

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