Recent content by Yossarian

Another irony: I asked my neighbor across the street if they saw anything happen on their security camera. They didn't see anything in my driveway, but did record an Amazon van that rolled into their car parked on the street.

Alfred Hitchcock said that an icicle is the perfect murder weapon for precisely that reason. Ironically, my neighborhood is on the flight path for PHL, depending on the wind of course . . . Even more ironically, when I was in high school, an engine that fell off the wing of jetliner crashed...

While it's certainly possible that I backed into something, the truck had been sitting in the driveway for about 48 hours with our other car behind it. Both my wife and I took the other car to run errands on several occasions over that time, requiring us to walk past the rear of the truck, and...

Came home yesterday to find this ugly dent in the tailgate of my R1T. The truck was parked in driveway and It's a complete mystery as to how it happened. The dent looks as though it was done by a falling tree branch, but not only are there no trees within 50 feet of the driveway, there was also...

Right there with you. Otherwise it will have to be XCare or, perish the thought, moving on from the R1 . . .

Hopefully, the newly-approved (in the US) bemotrizinol (aka BEMT) sunscreen won't have the same effect on plastics. BEMT is a larger molecule that does not penetrate the skin, and gets absorbed in the bloodstream, the way that the suncreens presently available do, so presumably safer for human...

You make a very important point with regard to access to L2 charging, one that I believe is overlooked and may be the single greatest impediment to greater EV adoption. An L2 EVSE is relatively inexpensive both to buy and to install, and just as importantly, large numbers of them can be...

Not sure how much this means for Slate trucks to actually get to buyer's hands, but their website is now open for pre-orders. The Slate is certainly not a Rivian competitor, at least not for the R1 truck series, but does compete in the low-cost segment and could be trouble for the legacy...

I agree with the second part of your argument. My guess is that Ferrari types want the exhaust roar, and even though this has some kind of sound-producing transducer in the vehicle, it's not the same kind of visceral noise as from a high-revving V-12 or even a V-8. I'm not sure there are enough...

Any chance that the entire pad can be removed, and so provide access to a roughly 2x4 inch jacking point into which a bespoke puck could be fitted?

This is a choice, and I'm reasonably certain varies by state. In the Commonwealth of PA, if a facility offers state inspection, they must be able to do both the emissions test and the safety inspection, and they must offer the service to all makes of vehicle, so understandably, Rivian would...

Nearly everything I read seems to indicate that the loss of battery capacity over time is effectively a non-issue, and perhaps as importantly, at least some of any capacity loss has been countered by other improvements in EV technology, Anecdotal evidence, like that of the OP - and my own -...

Precisely the question I have regarding my 2024 R1T. I'm not a Connect + subscriber but this could get me to pony up for the service . . .

Rumor has it the one of these events is planned for early 2030 at the King of Prussia Rivian space. Kidding of course - I'm just jealous. Great photos and I hope the R2 is hugely successful.

I've not used the RAN, but my understanding is that with the price increases implemented by Rivian in late 2025, costs now average $0.63 to $0.68 per kWh, with some as much as $0.74/kWh. I don't know enough about the economics in the DCFC world to know if those rates are high enough to earn...