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Ours has gone up too. But part of the problem is that the Tesla has been on BG&Es evPulse off-peak charging rates and the Rivian still isn’t on their list of participating chargers/vehicles for some reason. Can’t understand why they’re dragging their feet since it just means we’re paying more...

A Tesla tech told us to leave it our MY plugged in whenever it’s not being driven if possible. It will utilize the house power for BMS, cabin preconditioning, and such. The Rivian doesn’t do that though so not sure if it’s the same recommendation from Rivian. I imagine it won’t hurt it so we...

Agreed that it sounds silly, but I didn’t want to tell him that since he had just helped me out with the charger issue. ? After I got off the phone though I thought about tankless water heaters and how they have a similar issue. They can only raise the temperature of the water passing through...

Ahh good call to watch out for. Ours still feels like a solid connection (just over 2k miles) but I’ll definitely keep an eye out for this just incase.

So take this for what it’s worth coming from an employee over the phone.. but I spoke to a gentleman on the phone last night about the charger not working. After we got that figured out he asked if I had any other concerns. I told him the HVAC was a little hit or miss. After explaining what we...

I didn’t even notice that but I’ll check this afternoon when my wife gets home with the truck. Are you using the Rivian wall charger too? Might not matter though since it looks like av8or is having issues even on a 110V non-wifi charger.

Forgot to mention that part. We just updated the truck last Tuesday night and haven’t had a single charging issue before that. Truck updated just fine on the first try too.

Truck was plugged into the Rivian wall charger in the garage and I noticed the light around the charging port was red. Unplugged it for about 10 seconds and plugged it back in. Light turned white and then after a few mins it would turn red again. After 4 more attempts, I decided to call CS and...

My wife saw a beautiful blue R1T about six months ago at work. We finally got ours just before Christmas. A few weeks ago she walked out to the truck and look who took the spot next to her! It’s a huge parking area too!

Thanks for doing that! So it definitely looks like battery warmup plays a big part in efficiency. And the only way to do that, other than driving it around for a bit, would be to either change the charging schedule (making it finish charging right before you leave) or jump into the truck, change...

Tesla recommends starting with 60grit and working up to 220 before you Minwax it.

Here’s a dumb question, but does it use a ton more energy to race to say, 50mph than it does to accelerate slowly to 50mph with an EV? I’m assuming it does and it would be a curve right?

Also a good point. We try to do that here too as much as we can. Luckily we live in rural farmland and only a few stoplights between here and the highway. Stop and go traffic is hard to avoid out there on the highway though and leaving a little more than a car length in front of you when cars...

That’s actually a good point. Not sure how true it is and I’ve never tried it, but it makes sense. I’ve read turning your regen down or off on long drives down the highway (without traffic of course) can increase your efficiency and range since the truck won’t be slowing it self down on smaller...

Agreed. I also changed the charging schedule as suggested to start later in the early morning with hopes it might stop charging right before leaving for work and keep the batteries warmed up. Driving slow is hard to do out here in Maryland because unless you’re doing 10-15 over the speed limit...

No tonneau cover yet. Wish we had one though! I’d definitely try testing with and without it!

I’ve tried being super gentle lately over the last week or so just to see how high I can get that efficiency. Haha I was expecting to see up around 3 driving the less fun way! But like others have said, winter, ~30 minute commute, and the lack of real preconditioning might be the biggest...

I figure the 21’s vs. 20’s vs. 22’s makes a difference for sure, but I’ve seen folks with the same wheel/tire set we have getting better efficiency than ours by a bit. Good example is two posts above this one. Yellow Buddy lives in the same climate, or maybe marginally colder, and he gets...

That is kinda strange. But I don’t know too much about the Leaf battery pack or the battery management system.

That’s actually a really good idea! I’m going to set the charging start time to a few hours before the morning commute. Thank you!