- The 2025 Rivian R1T with the Twin Motor and Max battery pack setup is Rivian’s longest-range mannequin.
- It is EPA-rated for 420 miles on a full cost.
Rivian’s refreshed EVs, the R1S and R1T, have dozens of significant enhancements beneath the pores and skin. There’s a warmth pump, which improves effectivity, and a number of different tweaks that are supposed to make the automotive simpler to fabricate and in the end cheaper for the top consumer, together with a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery for the entry-level model.
The opposite battery pack variations are additionally completely different from the pre-facelift automobiles, and they need to be higher in each approach–that’s to be anticipated from a refresh. Nevertheless, as our good friend Kyle Conner from Out of Spec Critiques discovered, that’s not essentially the case.
He drove a brand-new, 2025 Rivian R1T with the Twin Motor drivetrain and the Max battery pack to learn the way good of a road-tripping automobile it’s. And because it seems, it might have been higher.
With an EPA-rated vary of 420 miles and a usable battery capability of 141.5 kilowatt-hours, the EV was pushed all the way down to a ten% state of cost en path to a Tesla Supercharger that’s open to all electrical automobiles. Through the journey to the Supercharger, the battery was preconditioned and was prepared to absorb the utmost quantity of kilowatts obtainable for a 400-volt battery just like the one within the R1T–250 kilowatts.
After plugging within the DC quick charger, the electrical pickup refused to go over 173 kW, despite the fact that the battery was preconditioned and there was no thermal limitation on the charger aspect. The charging session was stopped after precisely quarter-hour, and the state of cost stage went as much as 36%. In complete, the R1T had taken in 43 kWh of power through the 15-minute stint.
Then, Conner hit the highway at a continuing velocity of 82 miles per hour on the freeway. The issue was that the adaptive cruise management wouldn’t work, so he had to make use of the accelerator pedal to maintain the velocity fixed, like within the previous days.
Throughout the entire take a look at, the local weather management was working on Auto and the air suspension was manually set to the bottom stage to enhance effectivity. After simply 75 miles on the freeway, the R1T’s state of cost was again at 10% and the effectivity was 1.93 miles/kWh. In different phrases, not a fantastic road-tripping machine, primarily due to the unimpressive charging efficiency.
“What a completely dreadful charging efficiency,” Conner stated after unplugging the electrical pickup from the Supercharger. All the weather wanted for a fantastic charging session have been there, however the EV refused to just accept extra energy from the stall. In the true world, this implies homeowners must spend extra time for every charging cease throughout lengthy journeys.
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“The Rivian continues to be the most effective automobiles available on the market at present,” Conner added, referring to the R1T’s off-roading skills, good trip and total driving expertise. It’s within the charging division the place extra work must be performed, he stated.
The 2025 Rivian R1T with the Max battery pack, which makes use of nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) cells, begins at $83,900. It’s the longest-range EV in Rivian’s portfolio. In the meantime, the entry-level R1T with the Customary battery–which makes use of LFP cells–begins at $69,900 and has an EPA-estimated vary of 270 miles.
By comparability, a 2025 Rivian R1S–that’s the SUV, not the pickup–with the bottom LFP battery fared higher in Out of Spec’s 10% road-tripping problem. It maxed out at 218 kW as a substitute of 173 kW, added 46.2 kWh of power in quarter-hour as a substitute of 43 kWh and drove for 91 miles as a substitute of 82 miles earlier than hitting a ten% state of cost once more.
