Rivian Meet-up: Compass Yellow Brightens up the Day

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 Mom

Active Wheeler

Mar 8, 2025

We haven't had a proper NDEW event for a while, so I was really excited when they had the event almost 2 weeks ago and it took place less than 20 minutes from our house.

I spent a couple hours making the poster boards so we wouldn't have to answer the most common questions. (You can get a 20x30 poster printed same day at Walmart for just $20! I just glued them to some $1 foam core for stiffness.)

We had our portable fridge in the R1S, and made air-popped popcorn to hand out in the back of the R1T. I think we sold a couple people on R1's, and probably more than few on the upcoming R2 (the interest in something R2-sized was incredibly high).

Overall it was a great event. There were over 20 Teslas (no surprise there), a Hyundai Ionic 5, an F-150 Lightning, a Kia Soul EV, a Ford Mach-E, and a bunch more vehicles I can't remember right this second.

Compass Yellow seems to bring people in. The attention we got was crazy. Everyone commented positively on the color, asked about other colors, and wanted to know more about the company and vehicles. Even with the other great colors, I think we would have been as noticeable from a distance.

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