Recent content by BCondrey

I talked to a Rivian RAN maintenance guy the other day, they were updating the RAN in Waynesboro VA when I stopped in on a road trip. He said their internal uptime metric was 98.5%, and they meet or exceed that. He said a huge priority is placed on uptime and they try hard and travel widely. The...

About farts... There is a button in the R2 that will lower all the windows at the same time. It is called "The Fart Button". Your wife should like that.

Good lord we hear this all the time... "A $100K luxury vehicle such as the R1S should be like...". Nonsense. We don't buy R1 vehicles because they are "luxury". We buy them for what they are. The best in their class. It doesn't mean they are luxury. We pay extra for stuff we appreciate...

Waiting for the "100 years ago, I bet it had carplay..." post...

This post made the rounds on Reddit yesterday. It sucks, I get that. General consensus was that advocating for yourself in situations like this is very important. Ask for the manager. Ask for the managers manager. Refuse to take their offer. Make them own it.

The drag coefficient or whatever efficiency of the R2 may be really good. The EPA numbers are average at best. 330 EPA miles means less than 300 real life miles. My R1T large DM does better than that, granted with a lot more battery. My wife's Tesla M3 gets 320 real life miles.

Read the manual, all of it, while sitting in the truck.

Read the owner's manual front to back while sitting in the vehicle. Lots of good stuff in there.

Groot. That would make all the responses really simple. "I AM GROOT". Done. Fire all the audio specialists.

So, RA validates your wife. My wife likes asking questions like "tell me the fairy tale of Rumpelstiltskin". (which she did) And, I have game I want you to play... (which she did). I'm like, don't bother her, I need to get to the closest DCFC that has a bathroom and coffee. (which she did).

I don't want a LLM chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude in my truck. I just want a smooth experience to help manage the drive and the environment. The current RA isn't perfect, but I am sure it will improve over time, everything else in the truck has.

Rivian only has the two adapters. You can add adapters to the 14-50 pigtail, but thats not recommended for long term use. If you have a Tesla now, and want to future proof for a Rivian, why not buy a gen3 Tesla mobile EVSE, and sell the Gen 2 mobile evse. Use the rivian points for something...

You set the charge rate in the vehicle before you start the charge.

Hey rivian, read the last text from [insert name].

I would never give a Rivian to a new driver. Too much power, too many distractions. There have to better options.