Recent content by tivoboy

The specs AND The vehicle have been available for probably at least 6 months.. and the re-design and turn around time to manufacture is probably <90 days at this point if not less. so being able to have many products (if not the electric automatic ones) is pretty high confidence.

Yeah these cars with 100 miles on them do seem odd.

The colloquial phrase is “use your noodle”

Just got delivery date confirmed! First day reservation holder (first 13 min) not R1 owner. CC LE 21” 8/11/26 Received email to order 8/13/26 Ordered CC LE 21” 8/18/26 received the purchase paperwork and VIN X47xx (the devils VIN) 8/19/26 received call from local service center about pickup...

This is a good point, and probably not how most would think about it. My understanding for the R2 shipping from talking with two sales and delivery reps, is that Rivian is using a lot of RAIL(trains) to get the R2 from Normal to West coast or east coast. Most ppl are used to seeing the highway...

Judging by image sharpness, i would guess that there was at least SOME use of the UHF when taking the pictures at least ;-)

Nice pictures! I love me some early morning Orion.! update: And now that I think about it, that MIGHT just become the name of my R2! thanks!

I don’t really understand why anyone thinks the 330 mile EPA rating means how far the vehicle will travel at a constant speed on a highway traveling 70 mph.?? It doesn’t seem like it but it seems like is this or would the R2 be the OP’s first EV? Yes, the marketing is poor especially for new...

Technically, the team that did that wasn’t actually hypermiming they were simply driving a defined loop mostly around a closed shopping center. I believe at night and over I believe a holiday weekend. Overall, I think they’re optimal average speed was 31 mph.

I still have that car (the RWD LR though) and at least initially got frequently at least 275-280 traveling >75 on highways. Today only a bit less.

Which Tesla is that? or was that sarcasm? humour. It is a difficult concept.

Frankly the best thing would be some internal PPF wrap kit.. much cheaper and most likely easily installable by the owner.

Indeed all those things of course have an impact.. but the easiest to measure and has the most general overall and predictable impact is high speed >55mph.. A vehicle traveling at 70mph with the 21” AS tires And a vehicle traveling at 65mph with the 20” AT tires, pretty much all the expected...

In the heat a lot of superchargers DO Throttle at the station. Depending on how many other drivers are charging, and it can be just 2-3 and the station will throttle quite a bit. I was charging my Tesla in Quartzite last year and there were only three other cars, but when the 4th car showed up...

We simply must have an avg speed value that is real and as realistic and informative as possible for any head to head comparison to be truly accurately informative.