Took my first road trip in the R2! -- 100% to 5% 263 miles range

[starbux]

Was going to Portland for Pleasure Burger, but woke up with a migraine and didn't get that all fixed with meds until about 11am... so I drove the R2 from Gig Harbor to Ridgefield, WA for In-N-Out and figured it was the perfect excuse to finally do my own longer-range trip and see what my actual setup would do.

BFG Trail-Terrain 20s
All-Purpose mode
307-mile rated range
A/C running

Outbound:
130.5 miles
3.29 mi/kWh
99.7% to 56.4%
50.1 mph average
77.4 mph max
Light tailwind

Return:
132.4 miles
2.81 mi/kWh
56.4% to 4.9%
55.2 mph average
77.0 mph max
Light headwind

Full trip:
262.8 miles
3.03 mi/kWh
86.8 kWh used

Finished at 5% with 15.5 miles still estimated (I think my battery holds 91.5 kwh)

That projects to about 277 miles of total range, or roughly 90% of the 307-mile rating.

The biggest thing I noticed was how much conditions changed the result. Going south, the overall elevation trend and light tailwind helped. Coming back north, I had the opposite, with the gradual climb from the Woodland/Paradise Point area toward Napavine, a headwind, and the HVAC turned up a little higher.

The telemetry backs that up too. My sustained ~70 mph sections averaged about 2.79 mi/kWh combined, but there was a noticeable difference depending on direction. The southbound section was more efficient, while the northbound section took the bigger hit.

Same vehicle, same tires, same drive mode, nearly the same distance, but 3.29 mi/kWh one way and 2.81 mi/kWh the other. The return also averaged about 5 mph faster, so that likely contributed as well.

For my R2, on the setup I actually drive every day, I’m pretty happy with that result.

Sean came along in his Gen 1 Quad R1T on Toyo all-terrains, which gave us a fun side-by-side comparison on the exact same trip. He covered 274.6 miles at 2.18 mi/kWh overall and finished with about 3% battery remaining. His outbound leg averaged 2.3 mi/kWh, while the return dropped to 2.1 mi/kWh, so he saw the same general trend I did with the drive back being less efficient.

Two different Rivians, two different tire setups, same route, and both showed how much direction, wind, elevation, speed, and HVAC can move the efficiency numbers around.

I should have a video about the trip tomorrow.

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[Jeremy3292]

Avg speed does not matter on your R2 trip meter. It simply takes miles driven / time to get avg speed. So if you stop, or are in traffic, or whatever it drastically reduces the avg speed bc you are sitting. Just an FYI for everyone.

Good to see these results on AT either way!

 

[kanefsky]

263 miles for a burger. I'm glad I'm a vegetarian

 

[NY_Rob]

... all I see is that burger!! Damn you

 

[starbux]

... all I see is that burger!! Damn you

It was a good burger!

 

[starbux]

Avg speed does not matter on your R2 trip meter. It simply takes miles driven / time to get avg speed. So if you stop, or are in traffic, or whatever it drastically reduces the avg speed bc you are sitting. Just an FYI for everyone.

Good to see these results on AT either way!

These stats that are typed out are from Rivian Roamer. Which is why they are a little different from the video wheer I only used the trip meter.

 

[starbux]

263 miles for a burger. I'm glad I'm a vegetarian

The burger was the reward.

 

[NY_Rob]

The burger was the reward.

A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do...

 

[RivianXpress]

Good comparison to the R1T. I’ve been wondering how the R2 would compare on road trips to my R1T. Seems almost identical.

 

[Indy avocado]

This is a good basis for a real-world road trip with stops or a long day trip, especially with the R1 comparison baseline.

Don't let the 52mph average fool you though, this is a ~65mph test with a decent chunk of suburban driving. Given that, I think it reasonably matches the State of Charge 70mph test in Colorado. Stay off the interstates(or be stuck in traffic for most of it) and you'll probably see the 300mi range figure from the EPA filings.

This is just like my 2022 R1T -I did ~310mi exactly once by driving in mild weather at 65mph in conserve with probably 50mi of county and small town roads at 30-55.

But I can *never* plan on that for a "road trip" -there I'm setting cruise at 70-80mph and earnestly get 210-250mi on a full charge.

 

[DuoRivian]

Not great given the moderate average speed. But good to have more data.

 

[riverie]

The $100 hamburger run is pretty well known in the private pilot aviation community. Doesn't sound odd to me at all.

 

[Indy avocado]

Not great given the moderate average speed. But good to have more data.

The average speed is misleading. Much of the drive was at 65-70mph on the highway. Long periods of town roads and stoplights disproportionately bring down the average speed.

 

[Rade]

This is good intel! ...and an even better burger!

 

[VegasWeezy]

Was going to Portland for Pleasure Burger, but woke up with a migraine and didn't get that all fixed with meds until about 11am... so I drove the R2 from Gig Harbor to Ridgefield, WA for In-N-Out and figured it was the perfect excuse to finally do my own longer-range trip and see what my actual setup would do.

BFG Trail-Terrain 20s
All-Purpose mode
307-mile rated range
A/C running

Outbound:
130.5 miles
3.29 mi/kWh
99.7% to 56.4%
50.1 mph average
77.4 mph max
Light tailwind

Return:
132.4 miles
2.81 mi/kWh
56.4% to 4.9%
55.2 mph average
77.0 mph max
Light headwind

Full trip:
262.8 miles
3.03 mi/kWh
86.8 kWh used

Finished at 5% with 15.5 miles still estimated (I think my battery holds 91.5 kwh)

That projects to about 277 miles of total range, or roughly 90% of the 307-mile rating.

The biggest thing I noticed was how much conditions changed the result. Going south, the overall elevation trend and light tailwind helped. Coming back north, I had the opposite, with the gradual climb from the Woodland/Paradise Point area toward Napavine, a headwind, and the HVAC turned up a little higher.

The telemetry backs that up too. My sustained ~70 mph sections averaged about 2.79 mi/kWh combined, but there was a noticeable difference depending on direction. The southbound section was more efficient, while the northbound section took the bigger hit.

Same vehicle, same tires, same drive mode, nearly the same distance, but 3.29 mi/kWh one way and 2.81 mi/kWh the other. The return also averaged about 5 mph faster, so that likely contributed as well.

For my R2, on the setup I actually drive every day, I’m pretty happy with that result.

Sean came along in his Gen 1 Quad R1T on Toyo all-terrains, which gave us a fun side-by-side comparison on the exact same trip. He covered 274.6 miles at 2.18 mi/kWh overall and finished with about 3% battery remaining. His outbound leg averaged 2.3 mi/kWh, while the return dropped to 2.1 mi/kWh, so he saw the same general trend I did with the drive back being less efficient.

Two different Rivians, two different tire setups, same route, and both showed how much direction, wind, elevation, speed, and HVAC can move the efficiency numbers around.

I should have a video about the trip tomorrow.

Thank you for making this video and for providing the data points. This is an encouraging result, as most of the talk on this forum has been pretty negative when it comes to the R2's range on a road trip.

I can't wait to get mine out for its maiden road trip, which is looking like it will be a run down to Anaheim to go to Disneyland in late September. I'll be able to report back on the Vegas to Anaheim and back road trip info afterward.

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