Rivian wants to make EV charging faster, smarter, and easier

Rivian fixes the charging experience for its EV customers, providing them with more information about how to receive their battery -powered cars and energy use.

The auto industry company offers a update to the program to its cars and the application of smartphones that aim to give its customers a more comprehensive and comprehensive vision of charging capabilities in their car, with faster charging speeds to all EVS. The changes come as Rivian moves in a tougher charging environment, with the continued charging of the general EV in prominent gaps and federal spending on drying outlets.

The new update of Rivian owners allows a vision as “their energy is going” in actual time, says Wassym Bensaid, chief software employee in the company. The updated energy application will display detailed graphic graphics explaining how to use energy when the car is inactive and will provide tips on the best way to maintain energy and scope, he says.

“The idea is [to] Bensaid says in terms of “energy” in terms of “energy” with the imposition of charging and then “energy” with how to spend your range.

Energy will now also include tab: “charging” for energy and “power control” for energy output. The EV shipping tab shows the amount of energy that flows directly to their battery package during the shipping session, compared to the energy used by other vehicle systems.

When it is charged actively, the app provides detailed details for the place where energy is running, including the battery, public system consumption, HVAC use, and any connected accessories. In the Energy Monitor tab, there is a new scheme that shows customers how the climate, ports and energy driving systems consume energy when they lead or stop.

The new “TRIP Target” feature provides shipping recommendations when using a navigation on a trip that includes shipping. Once the shipping session begins, the application will calculate the customer and notify it at the moment when it reaches the ideal shipping level for the rest of the trip. No more waiting until it reaches 100 percent (or 80 percent if you are concerned about battery health).

Under Energy Monitor, there is a new interactive graph that shows the impact of the expected range over time while driving or parked, based on visions from the last driving date of the owner. The Yeti Mobile Personality (RIVAN) will use facial expressions to show whether the efficiency of the owner is high, low or normal for current conditions, and there will be useful tips to increase the efficiency of the car.

In addition to the application improvements, Rivian also facilitates – and faster – charging their cars. The company adds a “very required” feature to the pre -battery condition on request. The owners can heat or cool their battery package when they want, even before moving to a charger, which may help improve charging speeds. It will indicate a clear banner for when the battery is heating or cooling and when the pre -conditions are completed.

Both the first generation of Rivian and EVS second generation get a faster charging DC thanks to the update of the program. The company says that the large Gen 2 package gets an additional boost, as it quickly charges up to 215 kW, which can add 15 percent of the range in just 15 minutes of charging. Rivian has achieved this by improving battery temperatures in simulation through individual cell improvements, then testing and improving solutions in a simulation environment with real world conditions. Then the company’s engineers verified the new improved temperatures with actual vehicles.

But this update is just the beginning of Rivian’s planned improvements to the charging experience. Bensaid says next month, the company will launch a new “smart charging” feature that allows customers to time for home charging sessions to save money on their energy bill, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and reduce their carbon fingerprint. Next year, Rivian will launch a new two -way charging feature that allows people to use their cars as mobile energy generators to send energy to other electronic or other EVS devices or even their home.

“The facilities and the network are very fragmented, just as I do not personally realize the promotional prices in my region,” Bennid says. “There is a solution where we make this easy for customers – you can only create things once and then the program does this for you automatically behind the scenes – I mean that this is a changing games.”