mindstormsguy
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About two weeks into ownership, I figured I should put the truck to the test on a good road trip. The trip is only half done (I'm still in Saskatchewan), but I figured I'd share some early info. So far, the truck has been great. I've developed a couple noises (mostly front suspension, but also some clicking from the rear end that I only notice between about 0-5mph), but nothing that critical.
On I5, the Driver+ stuff was pretty good. Better than I expected. Much better than an Etron. Once we got into Canada though, we only had regular adaptive cruise. It turns out it really sucks when you use the throttle for passing while cruise is active. If you give it a little input, it's almost like cruise is fighting you (and it oscillates between cruise-set speed, and the speed you're commanding with the pedal). If you give it a lot of input (foot to the floor), when you release it once you're past the vehicle you're passing, it lays on the brakes to get you back to the cruise set speed (it really does feel like it's more than just full regen, even). This was extremely annoying, because I normally like to coast back down to cruising speed after a pass. The update notes for the most recent OTA mentions fixing some cruise behavior, so hopefully these are both fixed for my drive back .
Efficiency was great. (See the attached image). We took two days to get where we were going, and only had to charge twice a day (despite having reasonably long driving days). We were in Conserve when on the highway, but were generally driving with the flow of traffic (a little over the posted speed, passing some people, but with some people passing us). The 55mph average is mostly due to city driving in the evenings, etc.
I should note that we had a pretty significant tail wind (30mph) for a good stretch of the #1 highway through Alberta and Sask though.
Charging in Alberta and Saskatchewan remains absolute trash. For everyone who complains about EA, you should really try Petro Canada charging stations. Imaging if you took the worst 10% of EA charging stations, and then built an entire charging network using only those. That's Petro Canada. (Also, PC doesn't show up in Rivian nav, so you're going to be on your own in a lot of places in Canada - or you're going to be stuck with Rivian suggesting only 50kW stations in many areas).
Anyway, so far, so good. Really happy with the truck. It gets a ton of attention in the prairies too .
On I5, the Driver+ stuff was pretty good. Better than I expected. Much better than an Etron. Once we got into Canada though, we only had regular adaptive cruise. It turns out it really sucks when you use the throttle for passing while cruise is active. If you give it a little input, it's almost like cruise is fighting you (and it oscillates between cruise-set speed, and the speed you're commanding with the pedal). If you give it a lot of input (foot to the floor), when you release it once you're past the vehicle you're passing, it lays on the brakes to get you back to the cruise set speed (it really does feel like it's more than just full regen, even). This was extremely annoying, because I normally like to coast back down to cruising speed after a pass. The update notes for the most recent OTA mentions fixing some cruise behavior, so hopefully these are both fixed for my drive back .
Efficiency was great. (See the attached image). We took two days to get where we were going, and only had to charge twice a day (despite having reasonably long driving days). We were in Conserve when on the highway, but were generally driving with the flow of traffic (a little over the posted speed, passing some people, but with some people passing us). The 55mph average is mostly due to city driving in the evenings, etc.
I should note that we had a pretty significant tail wind (30mph) for a good stretch of the #1 highway through Alberta and Sask though.
Charging in Alberta and Saskatchewan remains absolute trash. For everyone who complains about EA, you should really try Petro Canada charging stations. Imaging if you took the worst 10% of EA charging stations, and then built an entire charging network using only those. That's Petro Canada. (Also, PC doesn't show up in Rivian nav, so you're going to be on your own in a lot of places in Canada - or you're going to be stuck with Rivian suggesting only 50kW stations in many areas).
Anyway, so far, so good. Really happy with the truck. It gets a ton of attention in the prairies too .
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