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Absolutely! Tesla’s EVs aren’t bad (except arguably the CyberTruck), but the day is long past when they were the only obvious choice. For basically any individual feature you can find at least one EV that does it better. Except until recently the charging network. Three years ago when I...

As much as I like CarPay & think Rivian ought offer it, I’m not sure Tesla changing their mind about it will move the needle much on Rivin’s choice. Rivian already most sees “all vehicles” as their competition, not just other EVs, and in the USA roughly 75% of new car buyers have CarPlay as...

To me it looks like a 1970s VW Rabbit or Golf. Which I understand is not everyone’s idea of “cool” or even “good”, but it is a nostalgia kick because my first car was one of them. In yellow. So obviously if the R3X has a compass yellow (or other yellow) it is going to make me want...

I think Tesla Superchargers top out around 250kW, so a bit above what the R1 will sustain anyway. Tesla’s thinner & shorter cables make them much easier to handle, but I think are a direct cause of the 250kW “limit”, and also why the charger itself will frequently not sustain 250kW for long on...

For reliability reasons, or something else? If it is reliability I understand, they were awful 3+ years ago in CA when I needed to use them to get around. On the other hand the Rivian nav rates each site individually and a few have come up as A rated and ended up on my routes. I went ahead...

Wow, I remember the exact opposite! Since you have what looks like an except from the manual, I expect you are correct. If I had an early model year I would suspect the recommendation changed and the manual had been updated, but mine is 2025 so I probably am just misremembering.

For me it would save significant time to go across the lake to my favrite restaurant (they have a dock). It might also be fun in and of itself. Someone else might have an island they want to visit... Or if you choose to visit someplace at low tide you might not want to wait until it is low...

The R1 manual says the windows must be closed, so clearly the R2 has an improvement in this area...

Same R1S same price? Sure. I “just” bought it six months ago, and I’ve enjoyed it greatly. If I had a choice to buy “a R1” depending on the price difference I might choose a larger battery, towing my trailer long distances isn’t great with the smallest battery. Other driving is fine with...

There are a few ways. Three that I know of. (1) You can use pet mode, disadvantage of pet mode is it diables a lot of vehicle controls like the windows because you don’t want a car full of dogs to be able to roll down the window and get out. There is a quick menu item to get to it, and maybe...

I saw more non-Rivian while I was there then Rivians. Two mustangs, a VW id.5 (I think it said 5), some sort of big white non-Rivian work truck (I think it was a Chevy, but didn’t look like a Silverado), a Kia, and a Kona drove by without charging. I think the Rivians were outnumbered roughly...

That is why my pitch is “I tell it where I want to go, and it plans a route -- there are a lot of things that go into planning a perfect route, and it basically does them all”, and then if I need/want to explain any of the complexities I throw in how the nav system deals with it. So “you can...

I may have a trailer addiction, I just bought another one yesterday (this time a small dump trailer). This is also the very first time I have had the Rivian nav navigate me to a trailer friendly (in this case RAN) site while I was towing! So I was heartbroken to find that while there were 2 of...

I agree in general switching to Google‘s map data/system hasn’t seemed to make a large impact, EXCEPT they do seem to use more human centric spoken directions. Like “turn left at next stop sign” which is a lot better then a distance in yards that might apply to two different close together turns.

NACS is somewhat self aligning, it is way easier to just get kind of close with NACS and have it work then properly line up J1772. I would definitely swap my home charger back to NACS, and pay say $500 to upgrade my gen2 to the gen2.1 (i.e. NACS hole). I would not pay $2000 for it. I would...

Eh? Seems like you have a hardware error. The software is telling you “this thing is busted, take it to the shop!”. You have a valid complaint, but the complaint is almost for sure either or both “bad hardware makes it through QA to the customer” and/or “the service centers are too...

Overall I expect this to be an improvement, but I kind of expect it to lose track of my house (Google maps tends to think it is either across the street in an empty lot, or where my next-next door neighbor is). For everyone not headed to my house though I expect this to be an improvement.

When you set a destiniatnoin it knows is a charger, or if it makes a route for you and adds any. On the other hand if say you _know_ some address is a brand new IONNA charger that isn’t on Rivian’s map yet, setting the destination to it won’t do anything. Or if you set a destination of...

So is it a cooler, a refrigerator, does it fit in the sub trunk? What should get me excited about this product? Why would I want to buy it? What problem in my life does it address? (yes, I don’t have a problem with not having a “stylish” cooler that looks like it belongs in a car I don’t...

Could be, but people tend to hyperfixite on one or two metrics, not 12. So “HP” (only), or “HP and Torque” or “HP and Range” not “HP, Charging speed, and Range”. Look at the gas car world, people talk about HP like that is everything. Or occasionally 0-60 times. Or sometimes torque. I’m...