Rivian Drive cam not Recognizing USB Drive: A Simple Fix

Rivian Blue · 2025-04-01T08:59:34+00:00

Ever since I got my R1S, I've noticed that the battery range estimation hasn't been the best. Driving a Tesla for the last 3 years, it never had this kind of issue. During my last trip, the driver display shows 255mi remaining. My total trip (including 2 destinations) is 160mi so I believed I should be able to make it easily with a nice cushion. But the center display showed that I would arrive at first destination with 4mi remaining, and run out before the second destination! I knew this was false so I made the drive anyway, and arrived at second destination with 50mi remaining. If I understand correctly, the driver display range is simply the total rated range multiplied by SOC. That makes sense here, since my vehicle is rated for 370mi, 255mi is 68.9%. Coming from Tesla, I expect the number shown in the center display should account for factors like elevation, wind, traffic speed, etc. It's sad that my own mental estimation is better than Rivian's.

Rivian Blue

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Mar 4, 2025

One of the first things I did on getting my R1S was set up the drive cam. I had the drive and took it to the service center when I took delivery last year so they could walk me through setting it up.

Worked fine, but it stopped recognizing the drive at some point, so I got a name-brand (Transcend) drive to replace the no-name one.

I set it up, but later realized that it wasn't recording. So I googled "Best drive for Rivian drive cam" and it said this one:

Amazon.com

Still didn’t work. So I went to "set up drive cam" and it goes through the format & test routine and says I'm good to go. But the screen still says it needs to be set up.

I repeated same procedure several times, each time it says the format & test is good, but it doesn't take.

So the fix I got was, I let Rivian format the drive. I'm using 128GB USB-C flash drive. I also did a reboot for the vehicle (hazard button and left toggle on the left-hand side of the steering wheel) by keeping both depressed until the screen starts to reboot. This helped me with my fix and I hope it can help someone out there too.

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