By way of its newest software program replace formally rolling out Monday to its R1S electrical SUV and R1T electrical pickup, Rivian is introducing an overhaul to its drive mode interface plus a “reimagined towing expertise” that makes modes accessible (and helpful) throughout towing. 

The modifications, that are a part of launch 2023.38.0, deliver a shift of the Drive Mode controls to the far left of the display, permitting customers to flick left and proper between them to rapidly deliver up the specified one whereas protecting eyes on the street. It’s additionally added a cockpit-like Gauge View that shows a variety of gauge-readout widgets directly. They embrace battery and motor temperature, torque, steering angle, and tire strain, in addition to pitch and roll gauges for off-road modes.

Rivian Gauge View

With the replace, Rivian is permitting the usage of specialised off-road drive modes—Snow, Mushy Sand, All-Terrain, or Rock Crawl—whereas towing a trailer. Vary estimates could also be much more constant, too, because the truck now robotically detects the trailer weight, permitting for aerodynamics and drag, and it learns over time the effectivity and vary of towing every trailer per drive mode, with as much as three trailer profiles and one accent. 

Rivian mode choice – All-Terrain

“These updates make it simpler to rapidly select the Drive Mode that is proper to your journey and make changes on the fly—whether or not you are towing your boat to the lake, pulling a camper throughout bumpy backcountry roads, or cruising with out cargo in tow,” Rivian sums.

The R1S SUV can tow as much as 7,700 kilos, and the R1T pickup can tow as much as 11,000 kilos.

Whereas Rivian has confirmed these vehicles’ towing by taking a 30-foot trailer with 11,000 kilos over Davis Dam Grade at as much as 118 levels Fahrenheit, for example, some grades on gravel backroads may probably be demanding in different methods, so it’s nice to see the corporate having confidence in additional use circumstances. 

Rivian Snow mode

The rear-facing bed-view digicam can now even be enabled on a regular basis whereas towing, in order that periodic checks on tough hundreds may be made. 

Individually, Rivian has elevated the accuracy of charging information and the decision of the corresponding graph in its cellular app. And it might need snuck a Halloween theme into the in-dash interface. 

Rivian emphasizes that its car software program retains enhancing and evolving on account of direct suggestions from homeowners, so for those who don’t like how a system works or just see a strategy to do it higher on the take a look at drive, drop the EV upstart a be aware. One among its most important updates but arrived in September, with Rivian experience and dealing with enhancements.