Too long of a thread to read everything, but went to Pasadena yesterday to check out the R2...also took quick looks at the R3, Gen 2 R1S, and Sprinter Van.
It's been quite a while since I have been on these forums so apologies if any of this is well known.
Key takeaways from my side:
Charge...
PAAK should solve for this...auto lock when you walk away, auto unlock when you walk up.
There would be no way to have handles in and be unlocked (which is a good thing).
Exactly right...Person A either never wanted the car and was always going to flip, or changed their mind at some point in the process and decided to purchase it to flip. Either way, that vehicle was only going to be sold by Rivian once...either to Person A who flips it to Person B, or to Person...
Get your logic, but I believe it is flawed. There are finite number of pre-price hike reservations. If they would have canceled their reservations instead of flipping the vehicles it would still lead to the same number of overall vehicles being purchased/produced.
Sure Rivian is losing out on...