Not to derail the thread, but I absolutely love them:
Stellar in the snow
Quiet
Great wearing (have about 15k miles on them and just went past 80% using the integrated wear gauge)
Look great
Good off-road in the small amount I've taken them on (mainly loose gravel/baby heads on steep incline)...
I'm on nATs too and religiously keep them aired up to 58psi cold. I've noticed my efficiency increase, but even before 2025.10 and for me it was tied to the weather finally warming up in Colorado (and we took a Spring Break trip to Phoenix where it was 90+). In general, my battery doesn't fall...
You could argue that Zack with JerryRigEverything is biased towards Elon, but Jason with Engineering Explained is just an unbiased engineer who lays it out straight and in a very understandable way. Really well done video and solidified my thinking that aluminum is just a terrible material for...
Love Engineering Explained. No way I'd buy a CyberTruck to do anything truck related - tow, offroad, etc. Too much risk with the aluminum casting.
-Rich
I guess what would worry me the most is aluminum fatigues over time. What happened to Whistlin’ Diesel is not terribly uncommon for someone who off-roads. That vertical force will create fatigue that will then lower the limit of what the CT can handle in a horizontal direction (exactly what...
In my experience, you’ve gotta give the tires a while to break in. I saw a pretty major improvement on our Nokian nAT after a few thousand miles. Started off great. Went down a ton and have bounced back to equal to the stock ATs.
-Rich
I have the nATs, but in the stock 20” size. I LOVE them. In fact, I just had to drive an hour home tonight in whiteout conditions and they were incredibly confidence inspiring. They look great. Quiet. We’ve got almost 11k miles on them and they still show 80+% remaining on the built in wear...
Ahh - you must have the Caffeine Package versus those of us with the Sandwich Press Package. I think Wassym mentioned in one of the interviews that you all are getting a Red Bull dispenser in the future (via Apple CarPlay).
-Rich
Instead of cherry-picking a single charge, I actually track the fuel (both gas and electrons) for our Rivian R1S, my wife’s LR D5 and my son’s JL Wrangler. In 32,632 miles in our Rivian, the fuel cost has been $0.088/mi. For our ICE vehicles, they average $0.196/mi. For those 32,632 miles...
I’m guessing the tri will only come with the “max pack”. On the R2 I’m going to say 100kWh for it. Going to guess the tri is rated somewhere around 3mi/kWh so that puts the range at a max of 300miles. I’m going to guess 303.
For pricing, I think the majority of the R2 will sit at a (small)...
Mustafa did it last summer in his R1S. Here's a video of it (raw footage, but still cool to watch through):
He also recently did Pearl Pass with Colorado Mallcrawlers:
-Rich