Rivian Provides A Sport Mode To All R1 EVs On The Highway

• Rivian’s newest software program replace for R1 EVs is right here, and it brings a number of enhancements.
• All R1S and R1T fashions get the model’s Sport Mode, which permits faster acceleration.
• Launch Mode can be increasing to Gen 1 Quad-Motor and each generations of Twin-Motor Efficiency fashions.

Rivian is enhancing how the R1S and R1T EVs carry out, no matter their age. The California startup’s newest car software program replace, model 2026.03, provides contemporary options to outdated and new R1 fashions, and introduces a devoted Apple Watch app that permits drivers to manage their automobiles with out having a automobile key or their smartphones at hand.

The Apple Watch companion app acts as a gateway to the R1S and R1T’s capabilities, and offers Gen 1 house owners the power to make use of their smartwatch as a digital key. Gen 2 Rivian house owners have correct digital key assist, with computerized locking and unlocking based mostly on proximity, however Gen 1 house owners don’t. With the brand new Apple Watch app, although, first-generation Rivian EVs could be locked and unlocked by tapping on the smartwatch’s display screen. With the app open within the foreground, the vehicles will also be put into drive with out having to hold a key or an iPhone–so long as the Apple Watch has LTE connectivity, as we beforehand reported.

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However that’s not all. Sport Mode, which has been restricted to Efficiency Twin-Motor and Quad-Motor variants, is now being expanded to cowl the bottom Twin-Motor fashions, too. This contains Gen 1 and Gen 2 fashions, in addition to NMC and LFP battery configurations. Based on Rivian, deciding on Sport Mode unlocks optimized energy supply and faster acceleration in comparison with the common driving mode. What’s extra, all suitable Gen 1 and Gen 2 automobiles can alter the trip peak to “Normal” when Sport Mode is lively. Beforehand, the automobile would mechanically decrease its suspension when Sport Mode was chosen.

Then, there’s Launch Mode, which prepares the car for a dash from a standstill. Till now, Launch Mode has been provided solely on the second-generation Quad-Motor R1T and R1S. The most recent software program replace expands the provision of Launch Mode to Gen 1 Quad-Motor fashions and each generations of the Twin-Motor Efficiency EVs. To activate Launch Mode, the drivers want to pick Sport Mode, press the flag icon, then maintain the brake and the accelerator on the similar time.

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The California firm’s flagship fashions are additionally getting a decrease suspension setting for the Kneel Mode, which mechanically lowers the trip peak when getting into and exiting the automobile. Rivian has added a “Decrease” setting, along with “Low,” which lowers the R1T and R1S by about one further inch on common, relying on the car model and tires.

On the superior driver help programs entrance, altering drive modes and varied car settings will now not disengage the Freeway Help and Common Fingers-Free superior driver help programs.

A number of cold-weather enhancements are additionally being applied with this newest software program replace. Rivian added an indicator on the battery icon on the show and within the Power App to indicate the driving force precisely how a lot power is getting used to maintain the car’s battery heat. A blue shading graphic on the Driver Show and within the cellular app will present up if some vary is quickly unavailable till the battery pack reaches its optimum working temperature.

The corporate stated it has improved the way in which the battery warms up throughout charging, making it extra environment friendly at recovering vary and pre-conditioning the pack for peak efficiency.