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Trust your gut and go for it! G1 R1T QM is a beast and an incredible value in the $50-55K range.

So turn off wifi. Problem solved, right?

What 2 seater did you order? I hope it starts with 911 and ends in Turbo :) Agreed on all fronts, although some of the stuff coming out of China recently gives me hope for some rapid advancements again in terms of battery performance - 500kw charging is no joke.

Nice, you’ve got me beat by 2! My wife is wrong, I definitely need more! I do think EV tuning will be more of a thing in the not too distant future. I’m all for having fun in a snarling ICE beast occasionally but nothing puts a smile on my face like smashing the accelerator in the QM.

Hi, my name is Mark, and I’m an EV addict…It started out innocent enough. Like so many others I tried a Leaf and thought ”hmm that’s good.“ Then I got my second Leaf and juiced it up with a 62 Kwh battery. Before I knew it the train came off the rails. Soon, I was devouring a Smart FT ED and an...

If I were a betting man, I’d put my money on VW owning a controlling stake of Rivian in the next 5 years. Of course, that will hinge on the success of R2 - that said VW could slap an ID.4 badge on the R2 and call it a day. For all the EREV heads, I’ll politely point you to the Model Y being one...

It may piss some people off but they‘re gonna want to/need to maximize uptake since it costs them $0 to implement. I see the $5K as an early adopter tax. Others will disagree.

Even if the heat transfer fluid stopped pumping at the end of the charge, some post-charge warming of the cells may continue but I would not expect the increase in warming rate that you observed. I like your suggested ABRP feature better. If you don’t mind, I’ll submit it to them. I picture it...

@COMtnEV This is great data! Do you think this supports the theory that once a session has been throttled, the truck cannot recover from it? To state it another way: the session will be throttled unless the pack has reached appr 55F prior to 80%. Re: the discrepancy between the temp shown on...

@mkhuffman just like @OYLman, I have a Gen 2 Large pack and have had L2 throttling since I picked it up at the end of November. I don’t do a ton of long trips in the winter so pre-conditioning is a good enough work around for me, but I understand it’s still a hassle for some. From what I’ve...

Agreed, we haven’t pinned down an exact temp, but the threshold seems to be somewhere between 50 and 55F. My main point in the last theory is that it doesn’t seem to be able to recover from a throttled session even if the pack warms above 50F.

New theory: At <50F the Gen 2 R1 will stairstep throttle its charge rate at >80% SoC. The latest OTA (2024.51.31) successfully attempts to warm the pack >50F while L2 charging. Once the truck enters a throttled session it cannot recover from it even if the pack warms to >50F during the...

I like the phone analogy and maybe the tiny battery “pill” with a percentage meets the need on the driver display good enough. As for the instantaneous usage, I think the drive mode menu (attached screenshot for reference) would be the perfect place. The only part of the vehicle diagram that...

I was picturing more of a continuous gauge with tick marks every 10% so you could discern approximately where you stood on SoC. More of an analog clock rather than a digital stopwatch with seconds.

Well in nearly 50 years, I’ve learned that discovering the problem you‘ve been fretting over isn’t actually a problem is the best solution. My premise is having precise-looking, pseudo data is actually more of a problem than just having less information. Even the percentage SoC is not all that...

This obviously isn’t for everyone and that’s fine. I think I addressed the “but I had 1 bar left“ concerns with the switch to single percentage below 10%.

A less granular gauge may not be useful to you, but in any situation where I’m not using the route planner, all I ever need/want is a general sense of SoC. Case in point, my kids are EV natives. The Nissan Leaf they drove through high school had a stacked bar gauge for SoC and that is all they...

Good points. You may have driven past me on your way to UT, I’m jealous! Agree, the route planner (center display) is a far better estimate and I wish some of the variables were factored into the MTE Number in the drivers display. Mainly, just incorporate efficiency from recent past drives...

Have you looked in the “RiDE” menu (secret service mode)? You may get some indication there.

My understanding is Rivian uses their mode-dependent range estimate divided by battery capacity multiplied by current SoC to estimate MTE. There is no factoring in for pack temp or past driving behavior etc. I think Tesla used to do that too, but have since improved their model to account for...