Rivian announced Monday that it will start planning routes around charger reliability in a new way—by grading each real-world charge site.
With that change, as part of Rivian’s Software Update 2024.11.01, which rolls out to its vehicles, including the R1T electric pickup and R1S electric SUV starting today, route planning will start favoring those chargers that, simply put, have a better record of charging its vehicles reliably.
Rivian notes that whenever a driver of its vehicles plugs into a fast charger, the vehicle logs a set of data including the charger’s peak rate, payment success, and overall session success. After there are enough sessions for that charger, good or not, it’s given a reliability grade from A (best) to F (worst).
As Rivian showed in provided images, the grades will be visible during route planning and in navigation and charging interfaces….
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