Rivian’s 2026.41 OTA is bringing a big round of navigation upgrades to both R1 and R2, including alternative routes, spoken Waze and Google Maps alerts, and the ability to set your own arrival charge. Chief Software Officer Wassym Bensaid shared the list on X this afternoon along with a short video of the new interface.
Here’s what’s coming in 2026.41:
- Alternative routes
- Audio for Waze and Google Maps alerts
- More alerts for road incidents, lane closures, and objects on the road
- Traffic signs and stop signs on the map
- Configurable arrival charge at charging stops and your destination
The audio alerts should make the biggest difference day to day. When Waze reports arrived with 2026.31 they only showed up visually, so you had to be glancing at the map to catch a police or speed camera report, and hearing them spoken out loud is a lot more practical on a long highway drive.
Configurable arrival charge is a nice upgrade for road trips too, since you’ll be able to tell the planner what buffer you want when you pull into a charger or reach your final stop, which matters a lot more in winter or when you’re towing.
Wassym also followed up with a reply tagging Kyle Conner, saying 2026.41 adds negative State of Charge at arrival, which anyone who’s watched Out of Spec push a Rivian past zero will appreciate.
The same release is also blocking camera data collection near saved locations on Gen 2 R1 and R2, so 2026.41 is shaping up to be one of the bigger updates of the fall. I’ll share more as soon as I get my hands on the release notes.
I hope camp mode and SiriusXM are coming soon!
Negative SOCs is a small detail that’s been badly needed since day 1. It communicates how much of an action you have to take ahead of time. Glad it’s finally (almost) here
Populating the navigation with more charging networks, like Walmart, should be included with navigation improvements.
Love this! Something I would love to see that Tesla does is showing “round trip range”. It’s a useful metric to add extra confidence.
I hope the spoken alerts occur without the need to navigate to a destination.
When will R2 get YouTube?! I take the ferry often and enjoy the big screen.
But when will they fix the issue of needing to turn on the rear vents for my dog _every single time I get in the car_ on R1S?
Does anybody know how often the map database updates? For example Mercedes updates every 1-2 quarters. My daily route hasn’t been updated since I took delivery in August 2025😏I imagine there’s others with this issue.
I hope they do a future patch with nothing new, just bug fixes
I hope they find my missing seatback fan and install in my R2 it before next summer.