Rivian has been bringing a fun and unique ‘Halloween Mode’ to its vehicles every year since 2022, and 2024 isn’t going to be an exception.
Rivian’s Halloween Mode enables special features or themes, and you’re free to enable or disable them whenever you’d like, but they’re only available for a select time.
We’re excited to see what’s in store for 2024, and we have some predictions, but before we dive into 2024, let’s take a look at what Rivian’s Halloween Mode brought us in the past.
Halloween Mode 2022
Rivian’s 2022 Halloween Mode was the first Halloween Mode update and brought with it a slew of fun features. Locking and unlocking your vehicle would play an Owl’s hoot, and the interior lights were set to a bloody red. Gear Guard Garry got a make-over too! To celebrate the spookiness of Halloween, he donned a skeleton outfit. Best of all, pedestrians around your vehicle would be displayed as zombies, shambling their way through un-life around you.
You can see the blood-red interior lights, listen to the owl’s hoot and see Gear Guard Gary in the 2022 Halloween Mode below, which was added in update 2022.38:
Halloween Mode 2023
In 2023, Rivian brought a few additional changes to Halloween Mode to spice things up. Locking and unlocking the vehicle played the opening and closing notes of Dracula’s theme. This time, the interior lights were set to an evil green color, and Gear Guard Garry donned Dracula’s cape and some vampiric teeth. The pedestrians got some companions too, with bats now flying around the zombies. In addition to pedestrians being turned into zombies, motorcycles are now turned into witches flying on a broom.
There’s one more neat trick for 2023, too – when the vehicle doors open, a pumpkin will roll out of the door in the vehicle’s visualization. That occurred in both the vehicle and in the app.
Rivian’s 2023 Halloween Mode update was added in update 2023.38. The video below shows the full set of features and visualizations:
Halloween Mode 2024
We’re hoping that Halloween Mode 2024 comes with another bivy of spooky changes – maybe this time Rivian will double down on the zombie theme, and we’ll get a Gear Guard Zombie Garry. We’d love for Rivian to take advantage of the new charging indicator light bar in Gen 2 vehicles, so hopefully we’ll see that added as well.
This year will also be Rivian’s first Halloween with its new cell-shaded design in the app and in the vehicle, so expect some new visualization art.
Rivian’s 2024 Halloween Mode is expected to launch in Rivian’s next update, presumably update 2024.39.
