Recent content by cardad

This move made more sense once I realized they opened a SC in Belgrade.

In Park City Rivians are everywhere. I can’t think of a worse state than Montana to promote EVs… very cold and no charging infrastructure. Rivian would be well served to engage more with their existing customers than find new ones where they don’t exist.

I think you’ll find 2.9 is likely not consistent with your long-term efficiency, especially with 22s. Doing a lot of regen-style driving will also put a lot of wear on your tires, especially if you’re sitting too low, with limited suspension travel. I’m also skeptical how you’re measuring your...

Until I did a buyback with my Cybertruck I had no idea how easy it would be to lemon law a Rivian… given that they usually hold your vehicle for a week before even touching it and tend to have so many Initial quality issues. For Texas at least, more than 30 days in service before 24k miles...

2.9 is hardly inefficient for the R1T. You might have calculated your numbers wrong. 2.3-2.4 is typically what you could see with All Season tires and 1.9-2.1 is what you find with AT depending on your drive mode and driving split between highway and city.

To be fair that is a HW3 vehicle that is constrained to an earlier version of FSD than HW4 vehicles. So you may wish to understand there are rather large differences in performance between v12 HW3 and v13 HW4 versions and even between v12 and v13 iterations. You can’t even compare it to what...

You definitely didn’t use the interface correctly. It’s just different and less photorealistic. The parking vision sees very flat objects and renders the hazard in color when you approach it. It also sees lines for parking and renders them very clearly. You don’t need parking sensors or cameras.

V12 and HW3 vs v13 and HW4 have seen massive improvements. Even within v13 there have been a lot of ups and downs and generally still beta just a much more stable experience overall.

The guy test drove the car. I doubt he knows the finer points. I put 12k miles on my I5 in about a year. Hyundai’s approach to UI is traditional not “all computer” so there will be more awkward interface adjustments. Hyundai’s route planning is especially terrible in the 2022 edition. Not sure...

There’s a vast difference in active computing activity and wake/sleep algorithms between the “software” car companies (Tesla/Rivian) and the “car” companies. My Audi Etron went to sleep sitting in my garage unplugged for 3 months and did not communicate with my app at all and lost 0% battery...

It depends on where you drive. I had a winter transportation fleet of 7-8 vehicles in Park City and we generally replaced 2-3 windshields every season in addition to filling every chip as soon as it happens. Not everyone is exposed to the same risk. Routes with a lot of plowing, semi activity...

Here’s a technique to force your vehicle to charge the 12 V from the HV battery (ie keep it awake) and maybe save a trip to service. The obvious problem with the OEM 12 V is frequent cycling and perhaps insufficient recharging. This method allows some measurements of the 12 V system without...

You shouldn’t need to air down for that hill. I’ve driven a ton off road with full psi on decent off road wheels and tires. Maybe airing down would have helped but the problem here is more fundamental.

I think the SLC Rivian service center is just overwhelmed. I wouldn’t be surprised if they made a mistake repairing it. There seems to be a lot of chaos at all levels within the organization.