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If you insist on electric, I'd go with a BMW i3. BUT For my kids, one new driver and one coming up very soon, it's a 15 year old Honda every time. Quiet, comfortable, safe, reliable and not enough power to get into trouble. Though all teen drivers can get into trouble with any car, I find...

Unfortunately, CCS is a dead-end standard like Betamax, HD-DVD or ChaDemo - at least here in North America. Expect to see fewer and fewer chargers as time goes on and the industry rolls existing CCS outlets over to NACS. That said, the CCS network is serviceable, but painful. No real...

This has been the number one thing holding me back from Rivian - access to quality service. I'm not taking time off work every time something happens so have decided until there is a service center within 30 mins of my home I'll just keep waiting on purchasing one. For reference, I live in...

not a great sign for tires, which were already difficult to source. Now an obsolete size.

tick tock....tick tock....

Maybe 'exit truck and stay away' is a way to get people to upgrade to the new R1 models?

I don't think the guides exist any more, it's between you and the local service center methinks. Anyone have different info? I had a guide, actual person, a year ago. That person left and I was re-assigned to a pool with a generic email address. No one from that pool ever contacted me when...

I keep a charged 12v jump starter in all my vehicles at all times. You just never know.

As of May 17, 2024 I'd wait on the factory refreshed models, that's just weeks. Might as well get the improved/useful wireless charging pad, heat pump, upgraded computers and whatever else is in the hopper unless you get a screaming deal on "old" 2024. There will be no battery retrofits -...

I think that's what they must have meant by "not client facing". I'm sure it's much nicer in the back.

According to the Rivian web site, as of today (5/15/2024) there are no service centers available in NJ: https://rivian.com/support/article/where-are-rivian-service-centers-located

Mahwah is the unofficial NJ service center. I'm waiting on making a purchase decision until Edison or Trenton open for business - no way I'm driving to Mahwah and maybe Brooklyn depending on whatever issue I may encounter. Either Mahwah or Brooklyn kills a day on each end (drop off, pick up)...

With kids I'd always have (and have had) a second vehicle - be it a used Model 3, Honda Civic or whatever - in case one adult is away from home with the vehicle the person at home with the kids has an emergency and needs to get the kids out they can do so.

You should try out other vehicles, I've looked at a few of those. - BMW iX - big on the outside, small on the inside, dash falling towards you is a little odd. I think they got a bit too fancy with the styling of the switchgear and use of bronze/quasi-gold. Rear seat room is pretty tight...

May 9th gives you little leverage, you could/should slow play it. However... June 9th would give you a lot of leverage as they try to catch up on units delivered in Q2, especially coming off the factory shutdown/retooling in April which means pressure on Rivian moving units in June will be...

Is Trenton officially open? It's not showing on Rivian's website as a listed center: https://rivian.com/support/article/where-are-rivian-service-centers-located And it's still showing as "in the works", as it has been for a year and a half, on their map. https://rivian.com/experience/service

I'll go in a different direction (and did) and picked up a used Model S Plaid. Four door sedan with a big hatchback. The trunk is pretty spacious as it is but for Home Depot or Costco runs its easy enough to fold down the back seats and have a ton of space for larger items. Oh, and it's a...

Or add "free" Stealth or regular PPF. Oh wait, they are already doing this. Keep in mind Rivian needs to find ways to keep ASP as high as possible otherwise the "loss per vehicle" is going to look obscene. So "free" PPF, wheel upgrades, interiors, paint colors, camp speakers (which should get...

Miles per hour is a measure of velocity. Distance travelled / time spent. You're looking at the wrong metric. You should be considering KWH. So your EVSE outputting 7KW (or 9 KW or whatever) would add 7 KWH to each battery pack in one hour of time. Same same. What has changed is your...

How is your Palm Pilot? Or Pebble smart watch? Receive any new software updates? Bit tongue in cheek, sure, but great products and strong customer advocacy doesn't equal a company. You still need professional operators that know how to efficiently market and scale. Bluntly, auto is not a...