2025.46 Update Teased: Customizable Driver Display for Gen 1 and Gen 2

[DanSexton]

With this update we finally get cruise resume right?....right?

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[Lord Leroy]

Cruise resume, bigger clock/fonts, less noise/beeping coming in and out of cruise, no music volume reduction when opening the door, and text integration is what I heard.

 

[DuoRivian]

Cruise resume, bigger clock/fonts, less noise/beeping coming in and out of cruise, no music volume reduction when opening the door, and text integration is what I heard.

Volume reduction when opening the door is a good idea. Hopefully not reversed

 

[mkhuffman]

Cruise resume, bigger clock/fonts, less noise/beeping coming in and out of cruise, no music volume reduction when opening the door, and text integration is what I heard.

Don't forget FSD.

 

[RMSko]

Are the three pictures the only potential configurations or are those just examples. My preference would be to have the music on the left and the navigation in the middle. I hope that's possible.

 

[azbill]

I get why you want this, but I also get why Rivian doesn't want to create it. Rivian needs EV ownership to look as simple as possible.

Even though using a scheduled charging completion feature would be optional, the mere existence of it means that Rivian has to explain what it does and why you might want to use it and when an EV skeptic reads that it will make EV ownership seem difficult and confusing.

To 90% of the population, anything related to optimizing battery life or performance is scary. Even the prospect of connecting an electrical cord once a week instead of connecting a gas hose once a week is overwhelming.

Rivian has to carefully balance the desires of power users with the need to convince non-EV owners that owning an EV doesn't require spending as much time thinking about EV ownership as the people on this forum do. If they don't add enough, they will have a hard time selling to us. But if the add too much they will have a hard time selling to anyone else.

Why do all other EVs offer this? It is a very basic function.

I have three different electric rates, on peak, off peak and super off peak. I set my other two EVs to finish charging at the end of super off peak, meaning I optimize cost of charging. If they have to start early in order to hit the target charge, I have the best possible cost. Just yesterday my Rivian started charging at the beginning of super off peak, but was unable to get to the target charge at the end of super off peak.

The other typical use case is to have the battery and cabin preconditioned at the end of charging. If you finish charging the night before, then the battery can get cold soaked before departure, then it takes additional electricity to reheat the battery in the morning. Not efficient.

 

[cohall]

Is nobody else concerned that whoever is driving the vehicle in the example screens is about to smash into the back of the vehicle in front of them? Why are they accelerating so aggressively? This is a disaster waiting to happen!

 

[jnc007]

Was I the only one who wanted a large analog clock with random adventures of Gary on the driver’s screen?

Similar to the Snoopy watch face on my Apple Watch, but with Gary.

Love the map views and I see an eta on the screen which brings be to an original request of mine; why isnt there a clock on the drivers hud? Looking to the other side of the vehicle, or my watch or the phone are unsafe and Impractical. Why isnt there a clock in front of the driver like in every other vehicle? Id compromise if they just put it in the left corner of the infotainment center.

 

[Ecupip]

Still no option for putting other features on the driver screen. Like odometer, trip gauge (like other cars have had for a generation) and elevation because it helps establishing usage. Must be beyond their programing ability.

I'm all for them making it an option. However, I'm happy I can access it from the center screen when needed. I have done the opposite, hiding all that information since digital displays became available.

 

[SANZC02]

There are a lot of false claims in this.
Haven't you watched the video about the cannonball run recently? Where they grabbed batteries from crash-tested Rivians that were sitting in a vehicle graveyard for months before being salvaged? They hooked them up and saw they were basically pristine (paraphrasing, but you get the point).

All the most recent data emerging is showing that
1- EV batteries are MUCH more durable than you think and suffer much less degradation over time even in extreme circumstances.
2- Fundamentally, even DCFC small-ish, non-optimized batteries in the desert (Arizona temps) have shown to have extraordinarily little impact on battery reliability and longevity
3- these batteries have different chemistry than most people think of (like your phone), and really is incomparable to anything that's non BEV.


Receipts:
https://acterra.org/electric-vehicles-battery/#:~:text=A test by the Idaho,two were Level 2 charged.

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2024/12/existing-ev-batteries-may-last-up-to-40-longer-than-expected#:~:text=Consumers' real-world stop-,of discharge followed by recharging.



https://www.firestonecompleteautocare.com/blog/maintenance/electric-vehicle-storage/


Don't be fear mongering.
Literally no one should be worrying about their batteries. The people charging to 100% all the time are in the same boat as people tracking their usage on a spreadsheet and trying to optimize for L2 charging at pre-configured timelines, within specified ranges at distinct temperatures... within a reasonable margin of error. The only delta between these two people is the stress and anxiety from needlessly worrying about nonsensical things.

The only *real* risk of the batteries not being used, as you're proposing, is if you allow them to completely discharge. THAT would be bad. But not using them much over the course of a year is absolutely not detrimental.

Go read some books.

I agree, some slowness in EV adaption is fear of battery degradation.

I’ll give a prime example of battery resiliency. I have a 2016 Model S, it has free super charging and a charger literally around the corner from my house so in 113k miles has been Supercharged well over 95% of the time. I only plug in when charging and always charge to 80%. Battery is still over 90% of original capacity and most of the degradation was in the first 4 years.

 

[Davethadog]

I guess if they’re not going to improve autonomy for Gen 1 vehicles they may as well hide their failed attempt by allowing us to hide the laughable lack of awareness that the cars seem to have of what’s around them. Happy to make nav the center of the display.

 

[Jabbahop]

Love the map views and I see an eta on the screen which brings be to an original request of mine; why isnt there a clock on the drivers hud? Looking to the other side of the vehicle, or my watch or the phone are unsafe and Impractical. Why isnt there a clock in front of the driver like in every other vehicle? Id compromise if they just put it in the left corner of the infotainment center.

I am losing some peripheral vision in my right eye due to Glaucoma so being able to move some things like the clock from right to left would be really nice.

 

[zymolysis]

Then it sits most of the night at a high SOC which isn’t great for the battery.

Just how not "great for the battery" is sitting at high SOC for seven hours or so?
Edit: Or four or five - whatever amount of time it happens to be. Reports I have seen about real world EVs don't seem to back up all the fear mongering about high SOC. I guess I'll find out, myself, in a few more years.

 

[Noplacelikeloam]

Just how not "great for the battery" is sitting at high SOC for seven hours or so?

This the right question.

Reality is, this wont show up for several years, after which most wont own the vehicle. And there is no real measurement of this when selling or trading the vehicle.

So unless you plan to keep the vehicle for 5-10 years, its not an issue.

 

[SSteveEV]

Then I kept scrolling and oh heeelll yes to more customization to the driver display!! The current setup showing me what the car thinks it around me is a waste of valuable real estate, that I would much rather put towards anything else. So this is a very welcome improvement!

The most exciting part about this update to me is they will be able to see that >85% of people switch to the view without the pointless car view that Tesla forced on us all. At least I hope that is what happens and they realize that space can be used for so many other normal things besides an self-driving ad.

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