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Four-wheel steering seems like a gimme for an electric vehicle with a motor on each wheel. I’m surprised Rivians weren’t designed with it from the start, especially considering how visionary they have been about so many aspects of the vehicle. Do you think 4-wheel steering is coming any time...

From the website it appears you won’t need the membership to get OTA updates that add new features:

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I'm curious why EV's have evolved to require a hand-held attachment for charging. This made sense for gasoline, but it doesn't make sense for EV's IMHO. It seems to me an under-vehicle automatic charging device would be much more convenient. You would plug it in and then lay it on the ground...

Apparently Rivian Central finally decided Nardo Gray would not be as popular as Launch Green. Having promised to make the latter exclusive, they pulled Limestone into the same color space, with just a tad less green and a little more blue. But it’s essentially Launch Green for the hoi poloi...

ARK Investment Management recently shared this slide, saying that society’s move to "autonomous ride-hail" will increase GDP more than the steam engine and IT. In five years’ time, would you allow your Rivian to autonomously drive itself around town to taxi people and enable them to haul? The...

I found a YouTube about a 3M vinyl wrap product that looks dead simple with great results. Has anyone used the 3M "Designer Wrap" product? Do you have any comments about whether this would be a good idea to do yourself? EDIT: I see the video is from 2014. The product may no longer be...

Last week someone replied to a post of mine with a Rivian video I’d never seen. It was a 60 second montage of the R1T getting prototyped in wind tunnels. Is there a master list of these videos? Here’s the aerodynamics one: EDIT: Here’s the Rivian YouTube...

Check it: https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1134782_rivian-patents-telescoping-and-folding-tailgates-designs-tailgate-step

A recent photo on this forum got me thinking: that's not what that Limestone looks like in the Configurator. The photo was shared to compare Limestone to Launch Green. But check it out below. That doesn't look like the same color, at all. In fact I think Limestone in the Configurator looks a...

Look at the mud collecting on the ridge of the door and the flare of the rear wheel. Is this going to be a problem long-term? Will the mud act like sandpaper over time, wearing down the paint in these areas? EDIT: According to AdamsFan1983, below, "There is factory applied ppf in most of not...

At some point Rivian will certainly raise their prices. My instinct is they will not raise prices on preorder holders unless we change our configurations after some date certain. In this scenario we would receive an email from Rivian saying that future configuration changes will factor in...

There's an up-charge of $2500 for Rivian Blue. Some auto companies have an extra-premium paint that costs more but also has extra layers of paint and fancy technologies in the layering. So what's the deal with Rivian Blue? Are we paying for the privilege of blue, or is the paint a better...

For some reason, or a constellation of reasons, the color LIMESTONE is missing in action. Care to hazard a guess as to why??? Realistic and insane guesses are all welcome. – Maybe they're saving the color for something ritzy to be announced in 2022? Like a high-performance package? Or a...

I reached out to customer service to express my wish that they had CarPlay. I expected them to reply with an open-ended statement like, “we appreciate this feedback and will continue to work to support the needs of our customers.” Instead, I got a reply that sounds like, “too bad so sad, now...

From the recently shared delivery windows it looks like customer deliveries of Launch Edition R1T’s won’t happen until March 2022. What do you think is going on behind the scenes to cause this delay?

My ideal R1T costs more than the $80,000 MSRP threshold for the $7,500 tax break. Maybe yours does too? What are you willing to sacrifice to keep your truck in incentive territory? If prices climb in the new year to keep up with inflation, what more will you put on the fire for free cash?

The more I look at the 20" wheels the more I dislike them from an aesthetic perspective. To my eye the traditional set of 20's look like floating staples, the second are too busy, and the black are $3500. I'm not a fan of the 21" wheels either, for reasons long explained: They are a bizarre...

Admin edit Also see the F-150 Lightning communities reactions at: https://www.f150gen14.com/forum/threads/ford-launches-f-150-lightning-3d-augmented-reality-experience.6843/ Just got this in email. The “Launch Experience” button directs to the link below. It is very cool! Using my phone I...

The Lucid Air Configurator is awesome. I know we’ve all been hankering for real photos on the Rivian configurator, and Lucid’s aren’t real. But Lucid’s configurator lets you fly over and around the vehicle. As you do, the wheels turn and touch points appear, where you can see features in...