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https://www.rideapart.com/news/735146/can-am-origin-electric-motorcycle-review/ Cool looking and tons of torque. 70 mile range works for my favorite New England back road circuit.

On our road trip from Connecticut to Savannah I only wish there were more Rivian Adventure Network charging locations along the I-95 corridor. The three we’ve stopped at have been operating perfectly and immediately available. The simple no App swiping or card swiping at these locations is...

We’re headed out from Connecticut to Savannah in the R1S first thing Tuesday. Today, on Christmas Eve afternoon, I discovered a screw embedded in one of my 20” AT front tires. Understandably, the two closest tire shops were closed today but I was lucky to find a Firestone Tire shop that was...

Wow! A Rivian R1T makes a cameo appearance in Michael Connelly’s newest NYT fiction bestseller, Resurrection Walk.

I am getting my windshield tinted next week to reduce heat penetration. What is the best way to mount/remove EZ Pass transponders from the windshield without causing damage to the tint film? My current plan is to order an EZ Pass mount from Amazon that uses suction cups to adhere to the...

Avoids the aerodynamics range hit and access via a ladder associated with rooftop tents. Downside is you need to detach the tent to open the rear hatch. Pretty cool design. Cost? https://newatlas.com/outdoors/thule-outset-detachable-hitch-tent/...

Tesla Store to Open on Tribal Land in Connecticut Tesla, frustrated for years by the legislature in its attempts to obtain permission to open stores in Connecticut, is now opening an outlet where the state rules don’t apply: the Mohegan Tribal land. Tribal land exists outside state jurisdiction...

Last week, when we got our Rivian, I discovered I could not get the “Proximity Locking Off At Home” to work with the Rivian parked in our home detached garage. When I experimented with navigating from our garage to our home address the Mapbox software calculated the Rivian in our garage was 300...

“ That’s what the US needs. It needs electric mini-trucks that can legally reach 45 mph to more comfortably traverse suburbs and larger city streets. It needs automakers to return to the concept of compact pickup trucks, offering us electric versions that top out at 80 mph yet can haul as much...

Available now in all black and with the yellow logos!

MIT Technology Review June 12, 2023 Headline: Rivian hopes to earn carbon credits for its home electric vehicle chargers Subhead: The popular EV truck startup’s move raises questions about who really owns the climate contributions from clean technologies—and whether they should be used to...

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This afternoon, a Connecticut Superior Court judge will hear a local Buick dealer’s claim that the City of Shelton’s Zoning Commission should not have given Rivian the okay to establish a Rivian service center in an existing commercial building in the city. The Buick dealer will argue Rivian...

“The new Rivian patent proposes using coolant sprayers on the outer stator windings to solve this problem. The coolant can be an oil-based electric motor lubricant or a special dielectric (insulating) fluid derived from purified synthetic oil. Spraying the stator windings with this coolant...

“The average temperature over the course of the test was 80 degrees. That's a bit warmer than average for our tests, though we keep the automatic climate control set to 72 degrees no matter what. After a full day behind the wheel, we totaled 330 GPS-verified miles. That's 14 more miles than the...

This Normal-area NPR story about Rivian was posted to Facebook and generated dozens of comments from current and former Rivian employees. My sense reading these Facebook comments is morale, leadership and professionalism are issues in the Normal factory...

This may have contributed to my R1S delivery estimate being pushed back last week to 2024. Ugh. https://www.sheltonherald.com/news/article/auto-dealer-s-appeal-puts-hold-rivian-move-17763639.php

R1T ranked #3 overall in overall customer satisfaction according to Consumer Reports. https://jalopnik.com/consumer-reports-10-most-satisfying-vehicles-to-own-in-1850066967/slides/9 https://jalopnik.com/consumer-reports-10-most-satisfying-vehicles-to-own-in-1850066967

Interesting article on the consequences of public policy-driven rapid transition from ICE to EVs: ”EVs are a new class of cyberphysical systems that dynamically interact with and intimately depend upon both energy and information systems of systems to function. When used as the catalyst to...

Is there evidence post price increase preorders are being prioritized?