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Good move for R2, charge port on the driver side of the vehicle makes it more accessible for home charging. I feel for the towing use case people. Might just be that the R1 platform has to be the recommended option for people who need to tow regularly.

This is the narrow parking stall problem. What happens when someone’s garage is narrow? The vehicle is parked in a way so that the driver can still open their door. Passenger side of the car gets closer to a wall, oftentimes so close that none of the doors on the passenger side can be opened /...

The curbside parking topic for the America market is curious to me. EVs are primarily charged at home. Rivian has called out 90% as their data point for home charging. Only leaves 10% to split up between DCFC, workplace, public charging and this mythical curbside use case. Honestly - what's...

If it were to be rear-driver, would it impede you from plugging in the vehicle? The point I mostly want to make is that rear-passenger creates more challenges and blockers than rear-driver does.

The hinting at being open to changing charge port location is interesting. Rear-driver is the best option for R2 / R3 / R3X in the US markets. Rear for cost. Rear-wheel drive variants will have high voltage in the rear of the car, so the charge port being close by saves on cost. That's an...

Cost is an impact in the front vs rear debate. R2 didn't get the same charge port location as R1 because it's less expensive to put the charge port in the rear of the vehicle. Rear-driver and rear-passenger locations are a cost-neutral options. Should match up with the other OEMs. Ford is...

Yes, I reverse into my parking spot. The parking spot is narrow, so when I reverse the passenger side and rear side of the vehicle are very close to the wall. Less than 6 inches clearance. I have to park like this because it’s the only way to open by driver side door. That’s the issue with...

Yes, most people will make it work. Another user wrote it out better than I can over here so I'll just quote from there: It's the 'unusable' scenarios that make passenger-rear the wrong location. Driver-rear would solve for those scenarios.

I laughed. But more seriously, with a charge port in the rear passenger side of the car I can 100% see not noticing the car is plugged in and hopping in the driver seat to leave home before realizing it needs to be unplugged. Then back out of the car, around to the opposite side to unplug in...

This is my issue as well. And RJ said during the event that 90% of charging is done at home, so lets talk this one out a bit more. People with large garages and easy options to pull-in or back-in are fortunate to have so much space. Anyone with a narrow parking space knows there’s typically...