Adventures with our 2025 Rivian R1S dual motor max pack

[crazysccrmd]

Your rave reviews of the dual motor really make me curious about the quad motor!

The quad is good, but not great, off-road. A conventional ICE vehicle with lockers performs far better than a quad Rivian with its current software implementation. Individual motors sound great but if the software controlling them isn’t done right (like on the Rivian’s now) they suffer from issues with threshold to detect slip prior to limiting torque and balancing it across all four motors as each encounters different degrees of traction. Right now a wheel will slip, spin, cut the motor and then not allow a small application of power to continue moving so you end up powering over/through obstacles almost like you’d have to do with a 2wd truck by using momentum rather than finesse.

 

[Jeremy P.]

For Thanksgiving we towed a small uhaul 1100 miles to Minnesota (with the equipment to put solar on my in-laws house!) I signed up for the tesla supercharging membership and used tesla fast charging for all but one stop each way. We were fortunate to have an open space to pull into at each stop without waiting. We also had level 2 charging at our overnight stays and at our destination. It was a balmy 3 degrees the morning we left for home!
Without the trailer the travel time wasn't much different than in the past (especially with 3 kids).


Staying entertained while charging!