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I am seeing some seemingly miner crashes that appear to be totaling the vehicles. There was one totaled by a dear, another one still waiting for the repair quote from a dear. There was the minor rear corner dent that had a 20k plus repair quote. Then there is this seemingly miner rear end...

Rivian posted this today. October 3, 2022 Rivian Automotive, Inc. (NASDAQ: RIVN) today announced production totals for the quarter ending September 30, 2022. The company produced 7,363 vehicles at its manufacturing facility in Normal, Illinois and delivered 6,584 vehicles during the same...

To be eligible they have to be available by end of this year

Saw this first drive on the Nissan Arita. Not a lot of specs but good views of the vehicle.

This is from the Orange County Business Journal;

This show took a Mustang EV to Willow Springs in CA. A hot day in the 90s and did a 5 lap test (7.75 miles) comparing range with AC, with heat, without regen, wireless charging a phone. It was interesting to watch, wireless phone charging usage was surprising. Here are the results of...

There are a couple of new articles talking about supply chain This one talks about how bad the supply chain was last year. This one is more concerning where China is locking down some key cities trying to contain Omnicro.

It's been awhile and lots of new members, wanted a simple count of who has an R1T ordered verses the R1S. Don't care about trim or options simply Truck or SUV...

I do not know the date of this image from USGS but is interesting. If anyone has a way to get newer or at least dated images, would like to see what those look like. Any thoughts on what appears to be a large number of staged vehicles? It seems like way too many vehicles to be Rivians, we...

Will be interesting to see who is actually in attendance. Seems like a huge miss if Tesla or other EV specific manufacturers are not represented. There would be a lot of real experience that could shed some l ight on EV specific challenges. Great to have GM, Ford and Stellantis there to...

R1S came in at number 2 of these 10 listed EV either out now or in the near future. https://www.hotcars.com/coolest-upcoming-evs/ I thought it was an interesting list to share.

Interesting article where a consumer group is looking for much more oversight in the usage based insurance model. Consumer Group Seeks More Oversight Of Usage-Based Auto Insurance | WGLT Will be interesting to see what may come from this and what regulations are wrapped around the data gathered.

Got a blurb from a financial planner [C. Couyoumjian] with some of the recent issues with supply chains. A lot of this has been discussed in several of these threads but this is a pretty good summary. There are numbers at the end of each section that reference data sources. I thought I would...

EVGO is behind on charger installs could invoke huge payment to GM https://electrek.co/2021/05/27/evgo-is-behind-on-charger-installations-for-gm-grounds-for-agreement-termination/

Looks like Pirelli is expanding the EV line with Scorpian AS Plus 3 line https://www.tirebusiness.com/news/pirelli-introduces-new-tire-north-american-market

More details showing Rivian to be for real. We saw a few months ago they declined a million dollar tax break from Normal, then a couple of weeks ago dropped 500k to the University of Illinois for a lab doing Covid Testing. Kudos to the management team at Rivian...

Not great news... https://www.pantagraph.com/business/local/dozens-of-covid-cases-affiliated-with-rivian-employees-construction-workers/article_48c427a1-0ba5-5ae3-92c9-a5c105003b07.html