Rivian R1S Extreme Heat Summer EV Road Trip To Colorado 

Alyssa is all about great ideas on this trip 1. Why don’t we get food before we charge the car and then eat it while charging! 2. Let’s get a Rivian R1S

Can you imagine wearing a hoodie in 108 degrees? Lol

My goodness she brings so much balance to this channel. Love the positivity

Wearing a hoodie mid summer in the desert kinda funny.

Love the classic OOS road trips! Keep doing em please, and as long as possible too!

Why does this video make me want a Rivian more than any review or flashy highlight video haha.Also, seems like charging stations should be covered.

Re: Kyle's surprise at the price of EV charging in CA--No, driving an ICE car is not cheaper. It would cost well over $110 to fill up an equivalent 7-seat SUV. Average price/gallon ~$5.

If you open the Tesla app at the location, select the charger you will be charging at, then as soon as you plug it into your Rivian start the charging session on the Tesla app and it will bypass the handshake with Rivian and bill directly from Tesla and apply your discounted rate if you purchased their monthly pass. It has worked flawlessly for me so far.

It was fun to watch you kids on another roadtrip, it had been a while! The banter made my day.

Kyle pay attention to Alyssa you always give her a hard time when wants to do something.

Glad to see you take off the hoodie & smell the roses. You scored solid gold with Alyssa as your co-pilot! Enjoy her and your time together as much as possible.

Instead of leaving it in pet mode for the whole charging curve, why not just use the app and turn on the climate control as you're mid- late way through your meal? Love, love, love the R1S. Thanks for all the great content and education!

Kyle, you are so right. I drove my F150 Lightning from AL to OH. I used couple of dealerships chargers under Ford Blue Oval network and the per cent kWh is .59 at one that I went to in Louisville. Like you mentioned in the video. It is not cheaper than gasoline. You are so right. These prices has to be reduced.

Whoever used the car before you change the settings for adding chargers. I'm sure you figured it out by now, wasn't a glitch. The other reset mode is hold the outside left and the outside right button on the steering wheel.

A front windshield reflective shade makes a huge difference in keeping the cabin cool when facing the sun while charging. I keep one in the frunk!

Love you two on road trips! These videos are classic!

OMG! Kyle took his sweatshirt off!

Alyssa's natural realism counteracts Kyle's Big Labrador Energy so well. A much fairer review of the R1S and a really good one. Wish I could afford one of these, they look fantastic.

The content is great. Don't change anything.

I love these long videos because I can throw them on while working or doing chores. Keep them coming!

As an ultra-distance runner and cyclist in Texas, it’s so frustrating to see people make poor clothing choices and then complain about the heat. But then I don’t think I’d know as much about how it matters if I wasn’t. Anyway, thin and lightweight loose clothes, sandals instead of shoes and socks, finding shade when you can, parking your windshield facing away from the sun… little tricks turn a miserable place into way cooler. Also, you don’t need to leave the AC on the entire time you are away from the car eating. You just leave your windows cracked and start your car remotely a few minutes before getting back in and it’ll be fine.

There are filters to help with the route planning. Don’t just hit “go” if you want to customize route planning. Hit the filters “three bars” and adjust: *arrival SOC *networks to use (tesla, Rivian, ea, +more) *drive mode *towing load if applicable Then if you want you can save these filters. My guess is that the last time someone was route planning on this truck before you reset they filtered out all the other chargers and saved it. Honestly their mapping is pretty good but accessing this route planning settings once you have a calculated route is very cumbersome. Thanks for the great videos!

you repeated your intro after the CCAN ad .

Love the rating Rivian are using on their Route planner, really looking forward to gen 2 impressions. Totally awesome EV company, we have a pile of Rivians R1S and R1T's Gen 1 on the BC Sunshine coast and everyone just plain loves them! I can see why!

Kyle, take that nice woman on a walk some time. You spend a lot of time in the car my guy, that will catch up with your health eventually.

For deflating, just use that quick connect adapter without the hose. When you attach the adapter to tire, it will start deflating and I think it's pretty fast

Always th very best camera work !!! Tytyty Ms Allysa

I haven't test driven the Gen 2 tri-motor yet, but my gut tells me that is the spec to get. All the efficiency of the dual motor, plus the max pack is standard, with some of the added umph (850hp, 1100 lb/ft torque if I remember) of the quad motor, and should have great off-road capabilities. I'm not really into max performance driving, so the 1025 hp of the quad motor doesn't fit my use case as it will for some people.The tri-motor just seems like the perfect balance overall and is the one I'm looking to get.

Rivian is also the best looking EV truck out there for sure. Might even be the best looking full stop.

Early on, when the route planing choses chargers sooner than Kyle would, I suspect that is the backend of ABRP optimizing shortest TRIP TIME vs fewest stops. While still waiting for my R1 order, I have spent a good bit of time "pre-gaming" several road trips using ABRP, Plug Share and any number of other charging location sites. In ABRP (rivian owned) there are MANY options to change how the algorithm routes you. The standard is shortest TOTAL trip time. In forum discussions on the same, everyone notes that ABRP will prefer more frequent stops that maximize charging curve speeds vs longer drives between stops. Basically, you can charge the miles back faster than you can take them off. So it's better to drive 85 and stop to fast charge from 10-65% than it is to drive longer and then go 10-90% etc. ABRP builds in time spent deviating from route, plugging in etc (adjustable) and adds that to its equation. An interesting video would be testing different routing systems, plans vs real world...

There's also a charging station in Pasadena, Ca. Between San Pascual Ave & Del Mar Blvd, just east of Lake Ave. Behind the Ross Store/Pacific Sales (Kitchen & Home) ...🤗🤗

Why worry about stall torque? The proper technique is to never stop in the first place. I don’t mean to go fast, just keep a constant 1 or 2 mph. That way the momentum of the vehicle helps bump over small obstacles. And stall torque is never an issue.

I own a 2024 dual motor R1T, I agree with Kyle, there is 100% a thunk especially accelerating on the highway. That being said, I don't find it that annoying.

I appreciate this! Can you do one with the 2025 version 2 of the R1S? I’m so curious about this new one and honestly think that’s going to be the new car we get in the future. 😊 Thank you for doing these! Way more important to hear about the real world use.

The Dual Max is such a perfect vehicle. At this point i'm waiting for either the F-150 to increase the range or Rivian to give the option for Apple/Android car play.

I have a launch 2023 large pack R1S and I find the key for pet mode is to get the interior very cold prior to stopping and placing in pet mode as well as tinted side glass, front windshield with shade protection (it wasn’t legal to have front windshield tinted in Nevada when I got mine done, and to use roof shades too - which also helps keep our large dogs cooler). If I do this, it can usually keep the temps lower and allow fan speed to be higher than 2. At least now we can increase it to much higher when driving. The highest I’ve had it get in 100 degree temps is 70 when set to 68. I do wish we could set pet mode to a much lower temp - at least to 65.

I do find it weird that out there where it is going to be ripping hot, they would not add a small awning overhead.

At 1:06:13 my Lightning is an ice box if I want it to be. I’ve been in 112° temps and been chilly in the Lightning. Sure it doesn’t charge at fast, but at least it can stay cool. But Tesla Chargers are always slower for me than a good EA station once I come off the boost.

i cant wait to see the new rivian heat pump setup, what a great stress test. awesome vid kyle you made me into a nerd you damn bastard ! 😂

Thank You for All that you are doing for our Planet Earth.. .. Peace.. Shalom.. Salam.. Namaste 🙏🏻 😊 ✌ ☮ ❤

Looks like you started out at the Arroyo-Glenarm station. There's a bunch of other cheaper superchargers around Pasadena like on Lake or Green that are way cheaper, even accounting for parking costs.

Came for Alyssa. Was not disappointed 😍

My Ford hybrid had a super smooth restart on the ICE, but it was obvious to my father the mechanical engineer. I could tell once I had driven it enough to recognize what he could sense. Over 230K miles on that car. I'd have a hybrid now, but they did not come with a spare tire anymore.

You can actually use the attachment to air down the tires very quickly. Just unplug it from the air hose and the attachment by itself will just let the air out super fast.

Having a windshield shade on while charging helps a lot! Kyle needs one for all his vehicles lol!!

Always fun and educational to ride along on these Road Trips. Thanks guys!😊

This video has more advertisements than my TV shows.

Watching trip videos folks still have these charging issues, but an EV is such a nice car, and I am so looking forward to ours latter this year. It's just me, but even "gaming" the charging seems to add a bit of adventure to the trip.

Kyle I need advice!! Take advantage of used R1S Gen 1 prices ($20k to $35k below MSRP) or fork out for an R1S Gen 2 due to improvements especially what I am hearing about the suspension and ride quality changes? Please help lol

set your preferred range on arrival in trip planner to resolve early charging stops 🤟

Great video. You hinted a little on how the dual motor does off-road, which is my #1 question. Hopefully you throw some all terrain tires on and put it to the test. A gen 1 dual performance may be a good trail rig.

Need to start identifying the refreshed versions in the title. R1S V1 V2 or whatever.

LUV Antica Forma Pizza and Pasta when we were in Moab last Year!!! Kudos!!!

This video was gold-especially 1:13:15 😂

I kinda like to see the charging speed much higher than on my ID.4 but then I remember that efficiency is double to R1S so the charging speed in terms of range per hour isn't as significant.

@ 19:48 Whoow! A Dacia Duster in the US! 😀

You need to check on a v4 supercharger (dispenser) if it also derates so quick.

I really like your road trip videos! You need more lol

DO GEN 2NWITH THE COOLING FROM THE RACE TRUCK

I'm a Software Engineer who has helped build all kinds of cloud based SaaS products. Just total speculation, but I could see this happening when something on the backend is broken. Especially since it was taking so long to calculate routes. Essentially, services that are built resiliently will run in various degraded modes when traffic gets too high, some dependent system/service is having an issue, etc. So essentially you still get some of the functionality, but not all of it, and it might be slow/flaky. Not desirable, but that is way better than being completely broken and leaving people stranded. I used to work at a company where our outages would easily turn into news headlines, so it's just a necessary way to keep things working no matter what is broken behind the scenes. Or it could be as simple as the internet connectivity or vehicle software itself was being flaky and the reset fixed everything up.

Kyle nice to see you tap your phone on the ea member spot . Easy way to do it. Ea open a site with new chargers. Last week in Moab . Tfl baught a condo in Moab to stay wyle testing .

Gas in San Diego or I get my gas at Costco , other stations 4.29 with cash vs .50-58 cents per kWh at Tesla stations , I had a Prius prime but it was totaled , now really don’t want a EV with electric prices going up, still have the 20% voucher maybe I’ll lease it for 3 years , but I keep seeing so long waits at service center , then Rivian is opening demo centers /show rooms as well I wish they just focus on opening more service centers in the country for road trips

I wonder if the thermals have improved in the new gen 2 battery packs - I'm severely bummed out by that... especially because I have a camper I want to tow with an R1S.

Great video. Really enjoyed it! Thanks

Yes we definitely need a Ford flex EV … I’m just starting to get into EV’s and I love the Ford flex that would be something I would be totally interested in

On our trip to Moab from CA, every single EA derated for long periods on our Rivian. Outside temps low to high 90s. Will try wet rag on way back

The end. “You didn’t watch the rivian video? No. It was a short one it was 2 hours long. “ 😂😂😂😂

Would have been cool to have done Alyssa's suggestion of a scenic hike in Zion; mix up the video a bit with some beautiful scenery and give the video some more interest. Just a thought...

The gen 1 vs gen 2 and dual motor offroad thoughts are what i was hoping for! Reaffirms my plan of going for gen 2 dual motor max pack.

Kyle, you seemed defeated in this video. The lack of charging consistency and standardization is long overdue. What was your total time spent at chargers? Should these chargers be limiting in the heat, or is there a better solution?

A bummer to hear they won't be able to fix the thermals in the refreshed Rivian. Even Tesla doesn't have this down yet. Driving across the middle of nowhere Texas last year in a Model Y.. even with the AC set to 85, then totally off, it didn't have enough cooling capacity to deal with that heat. It reduces the range way way down too in that kind of heat. I literally had to turn around about 20 minutes into a trip leg and go back to the Supercharger (after I charged to 90%) because I couldn’t make it to the next stop. Basically just killed time for 2-3 hours until it got dark so I could keep going.

What's with the pants and hoodie in 100°F temps? 🤦🏻‍♂️

As far as I know, the clutch disconnect doesn't happen when in sport mode.

i really hope he took her to Zion! he did not but agreed to buy a R1S. This is the car i will buy as well! wish they updated the thermal on the refresh more so

It will still be $46.28 with the membership as those stations at 9:06 is 52¢/kWh.

Yeah~~~I would never charge my car at a rate that's over $0.67/kwh Superchargers in Denver aren't cheap either unless you charge after midnight. Let's say about $0.35/kwh on average. Atlanta is very cheap, and one major station with 250kw max speed was $0.15/kwh all day long. Plus, Atlanta has A LOT of Supercharging stations. Of course, when you charge it at home, it will be about $0.10/kwh in Orange County, so it will be about 1/6 of $60 to charge the R1S max pack to 100%.

Thank for making these videos. Well done guys!

You should mention that the EV raffle is void in certain states. I almost wasted $200.😢

Gas in San Diego or I get my gas at Costco , other stations 4.29 with cash vs .50-58 cents per kWh at Tesla stations , I had a Prius prime but it was totaled , now really don’t want a EV with electric prices going up, still have the 20% voucher maybe I’ll lease it for 3 years , but I keep seeing so long waits at service center , then Rivian is opening demo centers /show rooms as well I wish they just focus on opening more service centers in the country for road trips and Rivian charges 30 -35 cents is max anyone should pay for charging …can you limit the charge stations based on price Kyle ?

What an incredible journey!

Just got back last weekend from a road trip on my 21 MY long range. The route planning sucked! Tesla used to be so good at route planning. Idk what happened. I had to put in the chargers one at a time. Plus once I would unplug & get back on the highway my arrival charge would go down 10-15% forcing me to have to stop earlier than expected. Not good for someone if they’re a non experienced EV owner.

Having a roof over those chargers would make everything better

Will the second gen addressed the cooling issues? I live in Palm Springs and what you went through is, to be honest, a deal breaker. My wife and I are weighing a rivian R1S vs the cybertruck (finally received order invite)

How many hours at 80 mph can you drive on the highway for before needing to recharge?

Nice vehicle. Glad to hear VW is gonna subsidize their existence. Wow, this guy can talk😂.

Love the videos man! Just out of curiosity - why do you complain about the heat so much but choose to wear a sweatshirt lol 😅?

These videos just continue to make me realize that EVs and charging infrastructure need to improve before we will see mass adoption of electric vehicles. Personally, I'm sticking with ICE until things improve a lot in the EV world.

Didn’t seem like you had any charging networks selected, when you picked up the vehicle.

I know you can add a Rivian into your Tesla app for a monthly subscription for discounted supercharging of the Rivian. How does Tesla keep track of that so you get the credit or aren’t double charged?

02:08:16 "it was 2 hours, a quick one" hahahahaha

Kyle, I’ve been using a wet rag with my rivian, but I’ve noticed that I have a longer charging time before my amperage drops

This is making me think I need to upgrade from my e-tron. I've been waiting on Lucid Gravity....

isn't the stall torque at the wheel with no lock up differential half the motor torque,? since the differential halves the torque and doubles the rpm when one of the wheels is locked. would it then theoretically really be better than the quad motor?

I’m surprised Rivian hasn’t integrated ABRPs comprehensive settings into its route planner yet.

sunburn city

Why leave the car on "pet mode" the entire time you're away from the car while charging? My EV sitting in the Texas heat is comfortable if I just turn on A/C about 5 minutes before getting in. Seems like a waste of charging rate to leave it blasting when no one is in the car. Edit: Just got to the part where you mentioned 68F is not cold enough 😳 I would be freezing 🥶 in that car, so if that's how cold you need it I guess the "pet mode" makes sense.

@rivian hurry up and bring the Rivian to Australia!!!

One video idea, can you really delve (in Kyle over-information-load) into thermal limits for different battery types? You have a LOT of first hand knowledge, from talking with Rivian, Ford, etc engineers. I feel my Rivian keeps the battery too warm (always 90-104F), I feel the battery cooling is not aggressive enough. I'd love to hear either in a video, or a podcast your thoughts on battery health in terms of temperature? In SoCal we're getting into the summer heat, and this battery won't ever be under 90F, I feel that kills longevity, no? I wish there was a setting to establish a lower operating temp, like 70-80s? I dont mind if the fan kicks on more often honestly.

Not very cost effective for road trips. I’ll see wait to see what gen3 brings.

Include the cost per mile of roadtripping.