3 Day Denver Trip Report, (Really impressed)

[Gurule92]

Hey Rivian Fam,

Every year, my family goes to Denver for a few days as sort of a semi-staycation. We are located in Colorado Springs and Denver has a lot of fun activities for kids, so we try to get out there.

This year though, we had Bomberman! (My R1T). And I thought it would be cool to see how it did (efficiency wise). I would be staying at a hotel with no EV charger and Denver is about a 70 miles from my house.

So I charged to 100% the night before leaving, drove to and around Denver from Thursday to Saturday. Then we drove back Saturday. Gear guard was on when we werent in the vehicle and we made it back home with 27%!

I made it a point to drive in conserve as much as I could bare lol.

In previous years, we always ended up stopping at a charger. I don't know that we necessarily needed to, but we did none the less.

Here are some deets for nerds.
I'm pretty confident the temps on this are wrong because it was like 100 on these days lol.

101.97 + 15.69 + 97.95 = 215ish miles!
So if 215ish miles used 73%, if we kept that same rate, we would theoretically be able to go 294.5 miles. (and that's after the phantom drain)

Coming from the world of Tesla range reporting, I would say I'm pretty impressed with that all things considered (high temps, gear guard on overnight, pre-cooling the truck before getting in). And this truck was only rated for 314 miles.

Side note: if anyone knows easy ways to run reports in electrify over a set time period that'd be awesome. But since I didnt see an easy way, I went through and added all the range lost for idle periods and it was 31.11 miles.

So, I guess, in theory the max range could've been 294.5 + 31.11 = 325.61!

Highlights!

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[Pacernow]

Gurule92,

Nice pictures,

 

[Pacernow]

Gurule92,
I traded in my 21 Y in late March for a 24 DM Large pack R1T. Several times a week I was driving 225 miles round trip. Charged the Y to 80% SOC and would get 165-180 miles. Charged at Bus-ees on a regular basis. With the R1T I charge to 80% SOC and make the round trip without charging. At the end the SOC is at 15-17% and the estimator is showing 55-60 miles left. It is a nice change.

 

[COdogman]

 

[BigSkies]

Looks like a good trip!

I find these trips are good opportunities to look for free or cheap L2 charging in the general vicinity of where you're going. The city is running a number of chargers at rec centers now. I don't know how universal they are, but the ones by me are free for two hours.

I don't plan a trip around them, but they are nice to take advantage of when the opportunity aligns with my other plans.

 

[Gurule92]

Looks like a good trip!

I find these trips are good opportunities to look for free or cheap L2 charging in the general vicinity of where you're going. The city is running a number of chargers at rec centers now. I don't know how universal they are, but the ones by me are free for two hours.

I don't plan a trip around them, but they are nice to take advantage of when the opportunity aligns with my other plans.

Good idea. They on plugshare usually?

 

[BigSkies]

Good idea. They on plugshare usually?

Yes

 

[shamoo]

Nice! I live in SoCal and there are a few trips (to the mountains, etc) where I can make it there and back home with low double digit charge levels.

I don't try to do that since it limits what I can do AT my destination. Usually I like to drive around/explore a bit where I'm staying and that will of course eat into the range.

With our NACS adapter and the expansive Tesla Supercharging network, it isn't bad to stop for 20 minutes to charge up.

Of course, heading home is a different story. I can arrive home with 2% if needed since I have charging/solar at home.

 

[Gurule92]

Nice! I live in SoCal and there are a few trips (to the mountains, etc) where I can make it there and back home with low double digit charge levels.

I don't try to do that since it limits what I can do AT my destination. Usually I like to drive around/explore a bit where I'm staying and that will of course eat into the range.

With our NACS adapter and the expansive Tesla Supercharging network, it isn't bad to stop for 20 minutes to charge up.

Of course, heading home is a different story. I can arrive home with 2% if needed since I have charging/solar at home.

Agreed, I'm all about the Tesla adapters lol I carry both the j1772 and CCS2 ones in the truck lol

But yea I want to get home with as little as possible so I can pay 11 cents per kwh minus solar production instead of whatever Tesla is charging lol

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