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Could you please inform if sunshades for R2 are in your plan? Thanks in advance!

Even better! Now, the problem will be solved for a lot of us! https://www.rivianforums.com/forum/threads/vion-giveaway-r1s-r1t-roof-sunshades-and-air-filters.50301/

Please plan for the R2 as well. :clap::like: I just had a "heated" thread on this forum on this very subject so your timing is PERFECT! ;). When I get the car, I will be your customer!

Purely for thermal runaway concerns and with a home charger and not doing road trips, range is unimportant to me. I could live with a 100-200 mile battery with charging in my garage from my solar panels. My battery engineer prior colleague back in Michigan advised to avoid NCM/NMA and shared...

I do not understand how this response went off on this tangent about removable roof panels, etc. that I never raised and have expressed no opinion about. The "miss" has been stated more than once in this thread about not making an accessory sunshade available in the Parts Department. If you have...

Thank you kindly! My wife's Porsche has a full steel roof, as ordered. My current X3 has the old-style power sliding cover and it does the job well, so I think a comparable-material manually installed cover shade should suffice. Wouldn't it be something if both Rivian and BMW have the same Tier...

If it doesn't burden your inventory or processes with too many SKUs, perhaps a choice to offer and see the take rate? A reflective/mirror (as with some vinyl wraps) top surface with black substrate might aid in heat rejection.

Thanks! Among the ideas to investigate as its for both light and heat. Maybe mirror vinyl wrap to reflect? When I raised that at BMW, they said, "sunroof warranty voided" and some customers who had fractured sunroofs from tinting had been out of pocket about $7k, so I need to run that by Rivian.

Thank you for this lead to a possible solution! Appreciate your help!

Thank you for the added information. I never said non-glass roof or no sale, but if there is no satisfactory shade by order time, then I would have to pass...quite different! Regarding the BMW experience, I may not have described it properly. It is what you describe. At the push of a button on...

My hope/determination is to raise the issue as I know OEM folks read forums. I did when I was at one. Also, other R2 considerers for whom this may matter also may not be aware of this issue. I will look with the help of kind folks like some here who shared their solutions, as there is time to...

Does it come in solid black backing behind mirror-reflective for the roof for zero light transmission?

Please share more about the cover if you are pleased with the outcome. TIA!

You mis-read my post. The miss cited was not the fixed roof, it's the lack of an accessory shade. The decremental margin for losing even a handful of orders easily exceeds the investment cost to tool a soft-material (not steel) shade.

Let me clarify the misunderstanding without it going to illogical extremes. It is not possible to satisfy 100% of course, nor should any OEM try as its a likely recipe for failure with either a bland or confused product. The skilled planner finds the balance using resources available to satisfy...

Those are valid comparisons versus a traditional sunroof (other than the paint). The greatest amount of headroom and Cd improvement is with a plain steel roof. Eliminating the operator station in the Final Trim and Chassis line after the Paint Shop to install any roof panel and the more...

Not a flaw in the engineering sense. A design flaw in planning. My decades-long career at another OEM was primarily in Product Planning for passenger cars and at least one stint on a pickup truck program. If I designed a plan with this outcome, I would consider my own plan flawed. I would at...

Nicely done! Source, please? We also have a Goldendoodle!

I agree with your original "no practical value" assessment for all sunroofs. We'd take a solid steel roof every time. I tried a similar tinted/electrochromic roof on a BMW iX test drive and it was very unsatisfactory with the overhead sun visible, heat felt, and sending in too much light into...

Yes, perceived by consumers. Design flaw in the sense that it conflicts with consumer requirements as noted by 9 pages of dissatisfaction in just one thread on the R1 forum! I find it hard to understand that they will repeat the same mistake without a better solution for R2. No desire at all for...