What’s Something You Didn’t Think You’d Care About… But Now Do?

[electruck4x4]

There are always a few things that don’t seem important at first.

Then you live with the truck for a while and suddenly they matter more

We’ve heard:

• Entry height
• Storage layout
• Visibility
• Ride comfort

It’s interesting how priorities shift.

What changed for you?


— Team Electruck

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[RivianRiverRat]

Reverse Overhead view
Don’t think I could live without now

 

[mkg3]

Frunk.

Hardly ever used on Model 3, but it is most used feature on R1S. It's my wife's favorite feature and has told me that from now on, a Frunk is a must on our all future vehicles.

When we ran into R2 in a parking lot recently, the first thing she asked was if she could see the Frunk. The driver of R2 was kind enough to open and show her the Frunk.

 

[Redmond Chad]

Similar to mkg3, the frunk. Specifically, that it has a powered hood with a button to open it.

I had several EVs with frunks before the Rivian, but i had to get in the car or bring up the phone app to unlatch the hood, and then lift it - a real pain when your hands are full of groceries.

 

[Great Gatsby]

More to EV life in general, but PAAK, being able to precondition a vehicle from afar, usable frunk and subfrunk, flat second row floor, software updates, instant torque, smoothness of the EV powertrain, dashcam/gear guard and a few others I can't think of right now.

I miss my Rivian and cannot wait to get into the R2. Daily driving an ICE car is fun at times but in general day to day, it feels like a relic of an older time that was...*checks watch*...eight years ago.

 

[elatrickWheels]

All of the above, but also:
- Pet mode. It’s great to be able to leave the dog for a while without worrying about him, and return to find him comfortably asleep in his dog bed.
- Electric cooking: fridge, kettle, panini, two-ring burner.
- Onboard air pump. I use it to fix tire pressure on our other cars more than the Rivian‘s.

 

[forestwalker]

War documentaries... and full size spares.

 

[kozak79]

I had running boards on my 2022 R1T and didn't install any on my 2025 R1T. I miss them, so does everyone who enters my truck. I do use kneel, but it still needs running boards in my opinion.

I wish the available options were easier to install. I installed my first set, but hesitant to go through the install again.

 

[kanundrum]

Camping, over landing, off roading, never did any of them and now I enjoy them!

 

[Rade]

Quite frankly... I am thinking about my next truck.

It's mid-Spring. I have had two weeks of new yard projects, and I have been hit hard with realizing the limitations of the bed size of the R1T. It's just too... short. When I had my Nissan Frontier, and I had to haul long lumber, I was able to open the back window and slide the lumber - sometimes 16' in length - through into the cab to get the majority secured to the truck for transport home. On a few occasions, with the Nissan's bed extender, secured even longer items up and over the cab.

The past week, I realized that wasn't going to happen with the Rivian and had to pay to have the lumber delivered. Kinda annoyed me that I paid $81k for a truck that I could not use. I think if the R1T had a rear window that could drop down, that would help.

At one point in a past life, we had a Ford Expedition, and on rare occasions with projects like this past week, I would have taken out the rear seats, folded everything in between down and loaded it up with whatever going out the back window. Perhaps the R1S would have been the better choice? But here we are.

Now, granted, these types of projects are very infrequent; perhaps one a year; we just decided on tending to multiple ones this year. I'm not a contractor who readily needs that kind of ability.

Just got hit with the reality of limitations.

 

[mclark2112]

And that's what kept me in the R1S group. I think by this time next year I'll have an R2 and a cheapish gas truck.

 

[Nixapatfan]

12v Battery health and vampire drain Never even considered the 12v would be the Achilles heel.

Other than that probably PAAK as already mentioned and frunk but next time one where the whole front end opens like Ford and GM

 

[michaelcasto]

There are always a few things that don’t seem important at first.

Then you live with the truck for a while and suddenly they matter more

We’ve heard:

• Entry height
• Storage layout
• Visibility
• Ride comfort

It’s interesting how priorities shift.

What changed for you?


— Team Electruck

Bed Length! Trucks don’t belong in the garage! Don’t build them to fit.

 

[Husky44]

Reverse Overhead view
Don’t think I could live without now

THIS!!!

I love it for towing my boat so I can keep an eye on everything, and not just the bow.

Even more useful for backing/launching. Gives a perfect "video game" view to keep the boat straight and run it right down the edge of the dock at launch ramp so I can step from the trailer to the dock.

On a similar note-the running boards that came on my R1T. Didn't like them and planned to take them of until I launched the boat for the first time this season. Our ramp is shallow so I typically am stepping out of the driver's seat into the water and am almost knee deep by the time I am back at the winch.

Launched like normal yesterday, but when loading onto the trailer I realized I could step from the tongue into the bed, open the gear tunnel door, step from it onto the running board and into the driver's door without getting my feet wet.

Unsolicited Pic of the boat after her successful spring sea trial and inaugural Rivian launch yesterday.

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