Indianapolis to Maine road trip (via Philly and Boston) - 2200 miles

[Tejkalra]

My longest road trips have been around 1700 miles, and I haven't experienced any of this, and would still take the EV instead of ICE. My ONLY road trip issues have been with EA chargers.

I also did around 1700 miles trip. No issues other than seat belt ding when my kid was buckled up. Charging no issue. UHF no issue. This trip was just 3 days before free UHF expired.
The recent update is to blame for all the nonsense. My GPS now shows my vehicle position like 2 streets away or on my back street. Center screen was all going crazy after that update. Reset it it started working. UHF error popped up in middle of my drive and dinging and displayed take control. Again had to reset it to make it start working properly. This latest update instead of making it better, messed up lots of features that were working fine before.
But UHF handled good on my trip. It slowed down on curve roads or I took over to help.
Yes it does freak out unnecessarily and will start applying breaks for no reasons.
Another thing I noticed that if another vehical in other lane in front of you is very close to the dividing line this vehical will freak out and will start braking.
Charging was no issue. Tesla, RAN and EA.
A/C was powerful. In fact had to raise the temperature because too cold.
Came from Gen 1 R1T to Gen 2 R1T. Build quality went down substantially. Doors creaking, door handle squealing, wind noice floor mat quality (plaid). Overall build looks cheaper.
R1T TM 2025 22" pirellis. Current milage 20200.

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[BTOR]

Yes. There's other "car of the present" problems that I didn't even list here. HVAC auto mode sometimes goes off the reservation and has a mind of its own -- my wife was varying the temp between 72 and 78 just to get comfortable. Keyless entry, while WORLDS better since the UWB update, still has a lag sometimes where I walk up to the car and stand there like an idiot for a few seconds before it unlocks. The audio streaming just...stops sometimes. FM radio locks into a station sometimes and doesn't let you change it.

This is all stuff that's been solved on every other car for a decade or two.

Not to mention the lack of some creature comforts you would normally expect, like auto-heated/cooled seats which nearly every other car I've owned in the last 10 years has had.

The good news is, a lot of this could be fixed with software. But will it be? I know the punchline around here is voice texting, and that it took years for that feature to be implemented while most other cars have had it for a long time. (I couldn't care less about voice texting, but just to make the point.)

Unfortunately the ride on the R1S seems unfixable.

Like I said...I want Rivian to succeed and I like the idea of the product, but the execution falls short. When people ask me if I recommend it...I only do so with caveats/reservations.

Sorry to hear you had so many issues. I’m sure it distracted from having a relaxing and enjoyable trip. Definitely frustrating.

Although I agree with you that there are features I have no interest in and wish Rivian would focus their attention elsewhere, I must say your vehicle seems to be in the 6-sigma tail of the normal distribution curve for “issues”.

I hope for your sake (and Rivians) they are able to address each of your issues and resolve the them so that your next roadtrip is a much better experience for you and your family.

 

[rogersmj]

Are you by chance using Home Assistant and the Rivian integration or the Rivolt thing?

I'm using the former and am pretty sure Rivian is either detecting it and blocking the account, or those sorts of tools polling is causing me to exceed the allowed rate limits.

When I have it happen I have to re-authenticate or at least disable it for a bit to get everything working again.

Interesting, I was using both! I have disabled them and we'll see if that helps. If so, obviously that one's on me.

 

[therealcmj]

If so, obviously that one's on me.

Well, one could say that Rivian should have a public API, use OAuth for security, and offer the ability to scope the issued token down to a limited set of permission.

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