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I think they buried the lede here. You'll actually be able to remove the doors of the R3X like a Wrangler or Bronco. I am sure they are making this change, maybe as an OTA update for the R1S too since you said it might not exclusively be for the R3X...

It could be air, but it could also be hydraulic. The R1 uses hydraulic roll control, and if it's not properly pressurized, it can't create the roll resistance needed to keep the truck flat. This hydraulic pressure also affects damping. Does the suspension oscillate a lot over bumps? Try it...

I'm not sure what was being leased back in November, but there were all kinds in June. They had an additional discount for max pack trucks, probably because they hadn't sold. The max pack arrived in October 2023 and many felt it wasn't worth the price increase. I was one of those people...

Leases started November 2023. My 3 year lease started the end of June 2024. As it stands, the residual will be higher than the street price. I wasn't planning to buy anyway though. EV leases in general will be coming out in force late this year. Depending on what happens with gas prices...

The single best argument for an EV is just to get someone to drive one. Talk about all the charging and environmental stuff afterwards. Virtually everyone is blown away and then the justifications start about how they can put up with charging on longer trips and how they could set up charging...

Should be able to turn off any optional sounds that you don't want. I agree that the piped-out sounds are kind of silly. That said, I don't think there's a person here who wouldn't want the Jetsons car sound piped to pedestrians as they drive by.

They've been mandatory for pedestrian warning for over half a decade. I expect any interior fake noise to be user defeatable. AFAIK it can be disabled on all the EVs that have this, but many people think it improves the experience. No such thing as fake fun.

Plot twist: they trained the LLM on his Rivian posts.

I like that Gulf, an oil company, sponsored the R3X, and that they have chosen to run both Michelin and Pirelli tires, at least according to the decals on the front. As for the Luce, I think it's getting panned because it's just so hideous. There's virtually nothing to like about it except...

Is that a gen1 UMC? I have a gen2 Tesla UMC from October 2019 and it works fine to charge multiple EVs. I put my Tesla UWC into compatibility mode to charge the Rivian, but it's not needed for a Mach-E. v2 superchargers won't charge anything but a Tesla.

This would have the AI do things that you can do manually, but don't want to bother yourself with. Connect+ is mostly for the data plan. They are just hanging features onto it.

Better yet, not have to issue a command at all. The system recognizes the truck has gone into drive and it sets your preferred drive mode, overriding the ridiculous EPA requirement to set to AP/auto ride height.

This will be great if they can make it agentic to perform tasks like putting the truck into your preferred drive mode when you start it, or changing the drive mode to all purpose / soft when you enable D+. Probably not though.

Shouldn't have any problem with an SSD. I've been using one since June 2024. I did have a problem with it after a little while where it pretended to be too slow from a fault in the benchmark. To fix this, take the drive to your computer and open the benchmark.log. Find the words "slow" or...

Gas gauges are typically pessimistic and show a reading lower than actual. Even when my Miata hits 0 miles to empty, I still have about 2 gallons in the tank. At 35+ mpg, that's at least another 70 miles. 70 miles in the Rivian would be 20% or so, and 0% is a lot closer to true zero.