Nervous About Remaining Range? Steps I take when running out of range

[emoore]

Nice list. I agree that slowing down is 95% of the savings. I'm gong to try to make a 290 stretch starting a road trip @75-80 mph. Might use conserve or just stay in all purpose. Have the 21" wheels so "should get in the low 300s. Going to be fun!

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[Hereforthesnacks]

3, 4, 7, and 8 will do nothing remotely noticeable. I’m skeptical 5 would do anything noticeable.

 

[Rambo]

We don't know the full circumstances of this situation by the OP. Maybe he ended up driving to a dead DCFC station and then had to limp to another? There's a myriad of other instances that may have happened. However, if you're at the point that you have a checklist for what to do on a regular basis, then maybe you're planning charge stops too far apart.

In 15k miles of driving in the past year, I've found that if you enter a destination in the Rivian Nav, it is generally pretty accurate estimating what your mileage range will be upon arrival. Typically I plan my stops so that I have about 50 miles of buffer range left. Typically this original estimate is a little conservative and I have a few extra miles upon arrival. Driving it down to 0% and even farther on a regular basis is a lot of stress that I'm not going to entertain...it's just not worth the drama in my life to eek out a few extra miles on a charge that I'll likely need to do anyway.

Here’s the situation for those interested.

Left San Diego heading to Santa Fe, NM with 100% charge. The original plan was to do a partial charge in Yuma and then full charge in Gila Bend with a Rivian Network Charger (highly recommended)

After 30 minutes trying to get the Electrify America Charger in Yuma to work, and seeing I was ~120 miles from Gila Bend with ~140 miles of range remaining, I went for it! I hit 0% range with 10 miles to go. Luckily, I made it and yes, don’t try this at home kids

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[VSG]

Gotta agree that better planning is the #1 thing. That said, I think the order of importance is probably 1) slow down to 50mph, 2) turn off AC, 3) Conserve mode. Doubt anything else matters.

I agree with this.
Also, stop the automatic battery preconditioning - it's likely to come on if you're routing to a charger.

 

[Robin]

I over plan always. If I ever get into this situation, I'm prepared to reduce weight by throwing stuff like the back seats, spare tyre, passengers etc out and as a last resort driving naked. (j/k).

 

[swhme]

This one was rough-- got limited to 17mph on the interstate for the last 2 miles. Really strong headwinds and bitter cold.

I usually just modulate speed to keep arrival range around 15 miles. Has worked well for me over 40k miles in my Rivians and 100k in my Teslas

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