SlaterGS
Well-Known Member
My Leaf always displays 2 things relating to energy on the display directly behind the steering wheel.I've held back on any comments to let people respond but I am as interested in why people responded the way they did as in how they responded. I think the preference, if there is one, must be determined by how one uses the information so if you wouldn't mind expanding a bit on that aspect of it I'd appreciate it. An example or two of how you actually use the mi/kWh number would be appreciated.
- SOC - Level of Charge as a percentage (0-100%)
- Estimated Range in miles or km
I can choose on this same display to show additional energy information such as mi/kWh as an average and instantaneous but the first two are there regardless.
These two are all I need for the majority of the time, but seeing something like mi/kWh can be useful when I'm trying to evaluate driving efficiency and calculating the "true" range that you might have available to you. The display in the center has even more options to see energy consumption.
The "why" to my response that they should have any and all of these options is because it is simple to do. They have the data and Nissan has been showing it since 2011, why can't Rivian in 2021?
Give us visual to the data they already have and allow us to choose what is most useful to us as clearly we all use it a little differently.
There are two reasons why Rivian doesn't 't have more energy consumption display options.
- They haven't had the time to program these into their software. - This is most likely and I imagine many/all of the things we would like to see will come OTA before too long.
- They want to control the data given to the end user because they feel they know what is best or they don't want to give an expectation with one set of data and someone be left stranded because of it. - Think Android and Apple. Apple tends to go the route of saying they know what is best and that is what you will get. Android gives you options. This is also a pretty likely scenario based on what I have seen from Rivian thus far. Question will be how "locked down" are they going to be?
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