Recent content by AmpedToGo

If you're in the Puget Sound area and interested in a set of Rivian's OEM 20" all-terrain tires, please direct message me. My order window is now Sep-Nov for an R2 LE so with luck I'll have one before the end of 2026. I'm planning to drive directly from taking delivery at the Bothell SC to my...

My take: R2 can handle all the same long road trip segments we do today in our 2020 Model Y. The range seems to be within ~15 miles of Model Y range at each speed tested. Showing range using 70% of battery capacity because we avoid charging above 90% on long drives and try to arrive at ~20% SoC...

For a Performance R2 w/21" Pirellis, ABRP shows reference consumption of 312 Wh/mile or 3.2 miles/kWh. I looked at a route in ABRP from Seattle to N San Diego taking I5. That route should average ~65-75 mph but without as much elevation change as LAX to JFK. ABRP's routing covered 1,267 miles...

After thinking about this further, I think others are right. Once HW3 is good to go, we'll likely get a choice of Performance+HW3 or Performance LE but not both. Hope we'll learn more before the summer ends.

R2's fast DC charging and effective range is like our current Model Y or 3 (R2 has 20% bigger battery, 20% more drag), and those have been fine for long-distance trips crossing mountain ranges, driving 75-85 mph. As others have said, it is almost too fast if you're charging at an unshared 250 kW...

They’d feel the same way I felt when Tesla’s HW3-equipped Model 3s started shipping quietly a month after I bought my 2018 Model 3 with HW 2.5 in March 2019. The EV industry moves fast. I didn’t get mad, I got ahead, scheduling a HW3 upgrade at our nearby service center. That isn’t always...

Invert this question. Imagine you’re RJ and the Rivian software crew. You’re building a Large Driving Model for Autonomy. You have a fair bit of data from your R1 customers but you want next-level autonomous driving performance and more customers to experience Autonomy on many more roads. And...

Thank you for posting this! We'll order our R2 in November or December. We're late to the Rivian party so quite happy with that timing. Last December, when we installed a home generator, we also replaced our original gen2 Tesla wall connectors with a pair of Universal ones to share a 60 amp...

So happy to read you've had a good experience charging both a Tesla and a Rivian with Tesla Universal Wall Connectors on a shared 60 amp circuit. We'll have exactly that set-up when we take delivery of an R2 late this year, or early next, after trading in one of our Teslas. Today we charge the...

Thank you so much for this terrific post! Especially appreciate the temp vs efficiency curve but it’s all helpful. Where did you get that great dog hammock? We have two Basset Hounds who would appreciate that in a new R2 landing here Nov/Dec/Jan.