Rivian R1T’s Quick-Charging Pace Catching As much as F-150 Lightning

• Automobile and Driver carried out a take a look at of a 2022 Rivian R1T Launch Version in June, following over-the-air (OTA) updates which upped the claimed peak cost price. We noticed 199 kilowatts most.

• Our common charging price over the period of our 10 to 90 p.c charging take a look at improved by roughly 7 p.c, from 98 kilowatts to 105 kilowatts, simply behind the Ford F-150 Lightning, which averaged 106 kilowatts.

• Over-the-air updates open the door to Rivian’s declare of having the ability to stand up to 300-plus kilowatts sooner or later, which might put it consistent with present business leaders.

Welcome to Automobile and Driver’s Testing Hub, the place we zoom in on the take a look at numbers. We’ve been pushing autos to their limits since 1956 to supply goal knowledge to bolster our subjective impressions (you possibly can see how we take a look at here). A extra complete assessment of the 2022 Rivian R1T might be discovered here.

In an effort to simulate real-world charging, our testing workforce conducts a quick charging take a look at from 10 to 90 p.c state of cost on the quickest gear the car can deal with. This enables us to document within the quickest charging zones (typically between 10 or 15 to 80 p.c) and past to see how the charging price declines because the battery is crammed. Peak cost charges sound spectacular, and are simply marketable, but when the battery is just capable of settle for energy on the peak price for a short while, common cost price turns into a way more vital metric.

Once we initially examined the charging capabilities of an early-build 2022 R1T Launch Version in November 2021, it managed a peak of 185 kilowatts. The height got here round 25 p.c state of cost and held for roughly one minute earlier than rapidly retreating.

Our up to date take a look at this summer time adopted an OTA replace from Rivian which enabled assist for 500 amp charging. Following the replace, charging began from 10 p.c pushing 191 kilowatts, 81 greater than beforehand, and continued to a peak of 199 kW at 27 p.c state of cost. This time the Rivian held the height cost price for 2 minutes going through a equally sharp decline in cost price.

Evaluating the up to date take a look at numbers to the F-150 Lightning’s is an effective instance of common cost price offering a greater image of cost price than peak numbers. Whereas the R1T hits a peak of practically 200 kilowatts, the Lightning solely manages 163. Regardless of the decrease peak, the Ford, with a battery pack that holds barely extra power, accomplished our take a look at three minutes sooner than the Rivian (61 minutes versus 64) whereas additionally edging previous it by a mean of 1 kilowatt.

Rivian has introduced that additional OTA updates will deliver peak cost charges over 300 kilowatts. That will place it in competition with a number of the business leaders. Lucid, for instance has reached the best peak cost price of any EV we have examined at 297 kW, enabling the Lucid Air Grand Touring so as to add 100 miles of real-world freeway vary in simply eight minutes. Our newly topped EV of the Year for 2022, the Hyundai Ioniq 5, managed to go from 10–80 p.c state of cost in solely 18 minutes due to its 800-volt structure. For Rivian’s half, it’s planning to construct its personal collection of DC quick chargers (3500 of them) at 600 areas all through the U.S. and Canada.

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