Overheat Protection Needed

[AMPRVA]

Why can’t my Rivian prevent the internal cabin temp from going over 90(?)F? All my Teslas had this simple feature. Yes it can drain the battery, so we should have the option to turn it on or off. I don’t always remember to pre-condition the cabin before going to it. I chose the light seats, so that’s helpful, but it routinely gets over 100F inside the cabin and summer has only just begun…

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[slomotion16]

Why can’t my Rivian prevent the internal cabin temp from going over 90(?)F? All my Teslas had this simple feature. Yes it can drain the battery, so we should have the option to turn it on or off. I don’t always remember to pre-condition the cabin before going to it. I chose the light seats, so that’s helpful, but it routinely gets over 100F inside the cabin and summer has only just begun…

I always thought that Tesla adding that feature admitted they potentially had issues with their components not being able to withstand high heat. As it turns out, both my 2016 X and 2017 S had the glue used in the instrument panel go bad, even on the S where I had cabin protection on, it just took longer to happen.

 

[mpshizzle]

Why can’t my Rivian prevent the internal cabin temp from going over 90(?)F? All my Teslas had this simple feature. Yes it can drain the battery, so we should have the option to turn it on or off. I don’t always remember to pre-condition the cabin before going to it. I chose the light seats, so that’s helpful, but it routinely gets over 100F inside the cabin and summer has only just begun…

Maybe I'm looking at this wrong... But I've NEVER used this on my Tesla. Ever. Is there a problem with the car getting hot when nobody's in it?

If you don't remember to precondition, getting into a hot car and blasting AC seems pretty normal and doable to me ?. There are still plenty of ice drivers without remote start

Maybe it's a regional thing but in Utah summer, I'd be running the AC in the car 10-12 hours a day to keep it under 100. Not worth the battery hit there

I'm clearly not the target audience for this feature but I've genuinely never understood what the purpose of it is.

 

[Thedude]

Er mer gerd, it’s hot. I didn’t realize how hard it was to roll down windows and turn on the AC.

 

[AMPRVA]

Maybe I'm looking at this wrong... But I've NEVER used this on my Tesla. Ever. Is there a problem with the car getting hot when nobody's in it?

If you don't remember to precondition, getting into a hot car and blasting AC seems pretty normal and doable to me ?. There are still plenty of ice drivers without remote start

Maybe it's a regional thing but in Utah summer, I'd be running the AC in the car 10-12 hours a day to keep it under 100. Not worth the battery hit there

I'm clearly not the target audience for this feature but I've genuinely never understood what the purpose of it is.

I ALWAYS used this on my Teslas. Never worried about sitting in a stifling vehicle. It’s a simple addition that you can choose not to use. I never used dog mode or drove on Mars, but certainly never complained that those features were available to me… ??‍

 

[connoisseurr]

Get a roof shade, high performance ceramic window tint, and precondition 5 minutes before entering the vehicle. All very easy things to do.

 

[sherold]

All R1 vehicles already have overheating protection. 90°F is not an overheating condition.

 

[COdogman]

You could turn on Pet comfort if this is important to you. Personally it seems wasteful to run the HVAC for hours when I only need to turn it on 10 minutes before I get back in??‍

 

[sub]

This is also a feature that I find very useful in my Tesla and really miss in the Rivian. Especially when combined with the lack of an easy way to keep the AC running.

Yes, you can accomplish this with the app, but fiddling with the phone for a minute every time I park is pretty annoying, especially when it is done automatically in my other car.

The AC automatically activating anytime the cabin gets hot is so much more convenient. A one touch "stay on" button like Tesla also has would be a step in the right direction but nothing beats automatic.

 

[Q-ship]

You could turn on Pet comfort if this is important to you. Personally it seems wasteful to run the HVAC for hours when I only need to turn it on 10 minutes before I get back in??‍

I thought cabin overheat was primarily a safety feature in case a child was accidentally left in the car, or a pet was left in the car and the owner forgot to turn on dog/pet comfort mode.

 

[SwampNut]

The Tesla's primary overheat protection would simply run the fans, which is very low power, if the temperature got into the hundreds. I don't recall the exact number. You could ALSO enable active AC-based cooling at an even higher temp. I use used fan, and liked it.

Remember that Tesla is a decade ahead in maturity. Many features we are missing now also were not in their early cars. I had a Tesla for four years and saw many new features.

 

[COdogman]

I thought cabin overheat was primarily a safety feature in case a child was accidentally left in the car, or a pet was left in the car and the owner forgot to turn on dog/pet comfort mode.

I have never owned a Tesla so I’m not entirely sure, but doing a quick Google search just now there were no results that mentioned it as a safety feature. Seems to be purely for convenience. Which is also fine, but it doesn’t seem like anything I would use if I had it.

That being said, we don’t know what the more customized HVAC controls coming in the next software update will bring. We know it will offer scheduling, so maybe there will be an option to do something similar to what OP is asking for.

 

[sub]

Personally it seems wasteful to run the HVAC for hours when I only need to turn it on 10 minutes before I get back in??‍

It would be interesting to see a test to see what uses more electricity.

I would expect that running the fan on low all day uses less electricity than running the AC on max for the amount of time that it takes to cool the surfaces. Especially in a R1S where there is no AC in the 3rd row.

It takes a lot of pre-conditioning to get the buckles cool enough to not burn the kids fingers. It is way more than 10 minutes.

 

[COdogman]

It would be interesting to see a test to see what uses more electricity.

I would expect that running the fan on low all day uses less electricity than running the AC on max for the amount of time that it takes to cool the surfaces. Especially in a R1S where there is no AC in the 3rd row.

It takes a lot of pre-conditioning to get the buckles cool enough to not burn the kids fingers. It is way more than 10 minutes.

Yes, I would be curious to see the results of such a test. I could be completely off in my initial assessment.

Until then I recommend you put the kids to work in the yard so they build up calloused, thick skin on their hands that won't burn so easily when touching the seat belts buckles.

 

[sub]

Until then I recommend you put the kids to work in the yard so they build up calloused, thick skin on their hands that won't burn so easily when touching the seat belts buckles.

That is the plan....in a few years. It is quite challenging to get 4-year-olds to do manual labor. The shovel weighs more than they do.

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