Battery Conditioning: what I recently discovered

Morgan · 2024-12-22T17:10:59+00:00

Now that I've installed the SnapPlate front license plate holder, I finally filled out the EveryAmp review. Here it is. Hope it helps others: Shipped promptly, so the license plate holder arrived well before we picked up the car. Engineered and built VERY precisely to hold the plate very close to the front bumper without scraping. Installation instructions were clear, would have benefited from one more picture showing how to find the center slots in the grille. Grille Depth Adjustment instructions were also clear; with one half-turn adjustment of three screws, the license plate holder fit PERFECTLY in place. Check the EveryAmp web site for photographs of how much their product blocks the front camera image at every setting. After reviewing the photos, I chose the center setting. I find the camera interference at that setting is trivial for me. There's a lot of competition for the front-of-R1 real estate. My understanding is that Rivian's front plate holder requires drilling a hole in a perfectly good vehicle, and can also block a small part of the camera image. Tow hook mounts take a tow hook out of commission, and can block a sensor. EveryAmp's mount is designed to protect the grille by snapping off when attacked by a car-wash brush, so you have to dismount it (relatively easy to do) and remount it before washing. I'm still happy with the EveryAmp product, which we have installed in our R1S and now R1T. Very best wishes!

Vincent

Member

Nov 22, 2024

Sort of a Charging post, but more about battery conditioning and prep. I knew the basics but needed to see the facts, and Wednesdays situation lined up perfectly to do a test.

I was scheduled to drop my R1T off at the SC on Thursdaymorning. So on Wednesday night I didn’t really need to charge my vehicle which was sitting at 64-65% SOC.

In the morning when I woke up it was about 31F outside and about 35F inside the truck cabin. I got the idea: let’s see if charging and heating the cabin 30 minutes before leaving will result in any improvement in efficiency based on battery conditioning.

This is the result after 22 minutes of charging at 11kW.st of the power went into heating the cab and warming the battery. I don’t have a breakdown of that. Next time I’ll not heat the cabin just to get a better idea.

When I started my drive I still had a cold battery warning regarding regen but it disappeared after only 1-2 minutes of driving.

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