Rivian R1s Dual Motor Vs Quad Motor 2025

Rivian R1s Dual Motor Vs Quad Motor 2025. All purpose on the dual motor automatically decouples to fwd when you aren't applying much acceleration. Compared to the dual motor config there are ~x2 the amount of things that can break on a quad motor, it's just a more complex system with more components.

The dual motor config has a motor up front, and another in the rear, both with differentials. We established that rivian has three motor configurations, which are effectively the r1 trim levels.