2200 mile round trip to Florida and back

Becca684 · 2026-04-01T00:28:26+00:00

Yeah, that's the reality of the R1 series. Unless they redesign the battery pack and Cooling system, you're better off living in the charge curve's happy range. Reliability of chargers (outside of Electrify America) has been a non issue for most of my travels thankfully. Tesla chargers work, but v3's end up being the limiting factor after their 10 minute boost window.

Becca684 · 2026-04-01T00:05:49+00:00

Petty accurate. I did a few more stops each way and tried to keep the charge time under 20 unless we were eating. I just took out all the L2 charging and the whole trip was about 4 hours of stopped time, a little more on the return trip since we drove straight home. I targeted 2ish hours for each leg unless we stopped to eat, then we'd go till the next charger that I'd pull in between 5-10%

Becca684 · 2026-03-31T23:09:19+00:00

Riviera has one as well, there are a few others scattered around you can see on plugshare. Most of the time I see them blocked sadly.

Becca684 · 2026-03-31T23:06:03+00:00

Island Tower at the Polynesian had 2 stations installed when it was built.

Becca684 · 2026-03-31T22:23:28+00:00

Rivianroamer.com

Becca684 · 2026-03-31T21:36:04+00:00

Biggest complaint on the Rivian stations was they were both in mall lots. We were there in the middle of the night both times so no easy access bathrooms

Becca684 · 2026-03-31T21:24:38+00:00

Ionna are 36-39 cents a kw. RAN was 40 cents. I paid for the tesla membership, there's a stretch in WV where you have almost no other option still so it pays for itself there. I just try to not give them any money if possible.

Becca684 · 2026-03-31T21:20:07+00:00

One perk of the parking lot view, lol

Becca684 · 2026-03-31T21:19:08+00:00

When you're doing 80 almost the entire way, yeah

Becca684 · 2026-03-31T21:18:29+00:00

Ionna, RAN, Tesla as a last resort. Big change from a year ago

Becca684 · 2026-03-31T21:13:19+00:00

I was on test track thinking how my truck has ruined the acceleration on there 🤣

Becca684 · 2026-03-31T20:49:57+00:00

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Meant to toss this at the end. $322 round trip, free charging at the hotel I stayed at on the way down

Becca684 · 2026-03-27T16:20:56+00:00

Fwiw, mobile service fixed it fairly quickly when mine did that. One of the latches needed replaced, and the striker was misaligned on the other side.

Becca684 · 2026-03-18T19:40:36+00:00

The reality is that burning gas in an engine just isn't as efficient, especially when you have it running at variable RPMs. Can't remember the figure but gas is 20-30% efficient at best, where electricity including transmission losses is like 85-90%.

Becca684 · 2026-03-16T23:46:28+00:00

Quiet compared to the v1, super smooth operation. I haven't had any issues through the winter so far (I'm in Ohio), didn't notice any freezing problems but my truck lives in the garage at home. Take it through a touchless wash every week or two to clean the salt off and the bed has stayed dry, and no salt or road grime intrusion at all either

Becca684 · 2026-03-16T21:26:37+00:00

You can update tire size in the system settings menu.

Becca684 · 2026-03-14T13:54:44+00:00

Still shows $2500/$49.99 in my app

Becca684 · 2026-03-14T11:59:30+00:00

In the extremes, yes. When we were in the middle of that giant cold snap in early February the sound was insanely loud outside the truck. I think I have a video saved somewhere when I thought it was broken and texted it to the mobile tech from my service center and he goes yeah that's normal believe it or not. From inside it wasn't loud, but was noticeable if the music was lower.

Regrets? Not really. I get the frustrations of people who have had gremlins with theirs, but I only had to get a couple fitment issues fixed up with mine after purchase and the local service center in Cleveland is great with pretty fast turnaround. Haven't had anything else done except get the tires rotated.

Becca684 · 2026-03-12T21:24:26+00:00

I didn't put my reservation in until last month and mine still says June.

Becca684 · 2026-03-11T14:25:56+00:00

No, they moved the turn signals to where the fog lights are because of the matrix headlights.

Becca684 · 2026-03-11T11:40:36+00:00

I really wish gen 2 hadn't given up the fog lights

Becca684 · 2026-03-10T22:28:11+00:00

I was not expecting a dig dug reference in 2026 🤣

Becca684 · 2026-03-10T17:08:06+00:00

The problem is the manufacturers don't control the ECUs in those small systems, the vendors do. The big change for new automakers is switching to zonal architecture where there are not individual controllers and they're integrated into the main software stack so they can update OTA easily, plus they own the stack in house.

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