Recent content by KiloV

I just completed a roadtrip from Maryland to the Great Smokey Mountain National Park. I used all of these charging stations except Meadows of Dan. Great experience! I hit a couple of EA chargers as well. The RAN experience was soooo much better.

I agree that it's silly to get panicky about charging at EA stations. They are very safe. Accidents can and will happen, though, even if they are pretty rare. I don't have all the facts, of course, but it does seem pretty likely that this problem originated with the charger. There are two...

The first clean-slate BEV truck that Ford/Model e builds will have a frame that looks a lot like the R1T's frame. My main take-away from this analysis isn't that there's anything shoddy about the R1T's frame (far from it); but that's it's complicated to manufacture (and therefore expensive)...

"The Cybertruck can serve as a boat anchor." There. Fixed it.

Yep, me too. You might want to consider a natural bias: People who have stuff break tend to complain about it. People whose stuff is working just fine don't tend to log onto a forum and say, "Hey, FYI, all is well." This tends to make people reading these forums think that all experiences are...

Your mileage will vary for initial quality. Got mine in March; haven't had any issues. Go ahead and buy it now. You have a good warranty. Any issues you may have down the road will be repaired for free.

Rivian said they were expanding capacity of the Normal plant from 150K to 200K. Don't know what the breakdown will be between R1's and EDV's (currently 65K/85K). It would be cool if they split it 100K/100K. I've also heard that they're planning to build batteries and motors in the Normal plant...

It seems that Rivian is receiving roughly 4,000 more orders per month at this point (they went from a net-90K to a net-98K, quarter over quarter, while delivering somewhere around 4k vehicles, I believe; so, 12K new orders during the quarter, or ~4K per month - all rough estimates). If Rivian...

I don't really recall too much that was critical from the Munro team during the R1T teardown. There were plenty of times when they said something to the effect of "Why use three screws here when one would do?" I don't know that I would characterize that sort of constructive suggestion as...

You can replicate the functionality of the camp kitchen on Amazon for a few hundred bucks: two-burner induction grill, five-gallon water storage container, collapsible camp sink, electric kettle, coffee maker, mess kits, etc. It will all pack up pretty small, won't take up the whole gear tunnel...

Agreed, BoisVert. I think your approach works for 95% of us (including me). There are some folks for whom range limitations are a real issue (they drive long distances daily; live in the boonies; drive to the boonies on the regular; tow long distances often). I respectfully submit that those...

Agreed. Bank/ATM interoperability is an obvious parallel. It'll come, I think; it'll just take time.

Same here. I haven't used every charging network out there, but I've always (so far) been able to just insert a credit card, get authorized and start charging. Which networks don't accept credit cards at the charger?

Slight modification here: If no valid "unlock signal" is received, the screens should remain dark. The door locks will disengage when you pull on them twice. This is a safety issue so that someone doesn't get locked inside without a key. So, after smashing a window, a bad guy could physically...

I read the second spoiler. My question is, has anyone confirmed that, if the Gear Guard alarm is on and a window is smashed, the alarm doesn't go off? There's a big difference between "window left down" and "window smashed." If the window is smashed with the alarm function turned on and nothing...