Super excessive vampire battery drain on R1T

[BCondrey]

Support can tell you what the issue is., why your truck is not sleeping. In my case, last year, it was that I had my dogs tether plugged into the passenger seat belt. Kept the truck from sleeping. They diagnosed it remotely for me. That has since been fixed in an OTA update.

BTW, 1-2% loss/day is normal. It has improved over time, but they aren't going to be able to improve it any further. Many, many, many posts on this (and even more on reddit) for those that take the time to look. "Vampire Drain" is the term for this.

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[mkhuffman]

@James Worden - have you identified the cause of your vampire drain yet? My truck has been sitting at the airport, with gear guard off, for just about 7 days and I have only lost 3.5% SoC.

It isn't plugged in and of course I am not nearby. I do have the app widget on my Android phone and it doesn't seem to wake the truck when I open my phone. Opening the app does seem to wake it, though.

 

[ndmiller]

I love my R1T, except for one really big issue: it has an excessive vampire battery drain while parked, locked, app closed! It is about 1kWh every day....doing nothing whereas Tesla M3 is about 10x less drain! Why, when Tesla has all the same connectivity? There was an easy competitor to copy...or do it better, but 10x worse?!? Its why I recomnmend friends do NOT buy the truck or any Rivian product as I'm sure its the same tech platform on all the products. Ise hacks out there and some sound OK but I really don't want to do them, I expected an OTA update long before now, its been 10 months since I bought the R1T and not luck. I did put it in "shipping mode" (in settings, service) and that cut the loss down slightly, like 0.7 kWh/day, but still excessive and unacceptable - my house is 100% solar powered and I've always had EVs. Now Rivian is wasting more power than anything I own by a huge margin and providing no benefit (parked and off)
***** All of a sudden, this week, it started loosing 5% per day!!!! A pump or fan is humming from the front end of the truck all the time (when its parked, locked and app is off!) I can barely keep up with it. I wish I could return the truck! Does lemon law apply to massive energy loss? Imagine if your gas car has a fuel leak dripping 5% of your tank out every day!!! I called service and got cut off after a while. They wanted to schedule a 12V battery replacement well into Sept. Thats not going to work, its too far away. Any ideas what I can do? I want to disconnect the 12V or HV battery to stop the massive drain. I don't have time for this. I don't know why Rivian didn't fix this issue a long time ago. What could they have done so wrong in the design and way can't they fix it quickly....go to sleep for real and not use energy!!! It's really too bad given how amazing the truck is in nearly every other way. I'm so discouraged and wish I had the Ford Lightning or one of GM EV pickups. James

Stop with the drama, just take it in for service. Same if your ICE car had a problem.

 

[Oldcarguy]

I noticed on my app that climate control uses most of the power between charges. That's living in South East Texas during the summer.

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