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If the Ramcharger had been a thing in 2023 I would've been shopping it alongside Rivian and the Lightning. The Ram is a bit too HUEG for my tastes but I still would've run it on battery 90% of the time even if it had trash efficiency. Would've taken that as a win. I'd wondered if disuse of the...

I kind of see the range-extender stuff as a better transitional step than conventional hybrids honestly. Engineering-wise the electric drive train is a simpler, more powerful and more efficient option than a combustion engine with a mechanical drive train. If you're going to have both an ICE...

LLMs are very complicated pattern recognition and iteration machines and unfortunately people presume too much because they seem magical. Most of what goes on in the processing layer is black magic even to the people who created them, since most of them can't follow the complexity of the steps...

So just for the record, a Waymo has a much bigger (and better) suite of sensors compared to a typical passenger car whether or not it was meant to drive itself, and they tend to be constrained to areas on which their software has been trained in excruciating detail. Cruise still got banned from...

If you hold the hazard button for a few seconds it will capture the diagnostic dump.

I had a strange rattle that only happened when making turns. When I had a mobile service visit the tech put some foam tape under the wing on the back of the cab on the bottom where it makes contact. Stopped it for a while.

So an earnest question from someone who left PDM on the table because of the 2024 incentives, does the performance boost do...anything at all outside sport/low/lowest? From what I gather the answer is no, and that's not exactly going to spur many of us to spend $5k for it as an after the fact...

I'm also one of those people that doesn't care in the least about self driving and rather wish there had been an option not to bear the costs for it. All I ever wanted was adaptive cruise control. It is extremely easy for humans to become complacent and extant FSD tech is the exact worst...

If I remember Rivian batteries (at least the Gen 1) do actually have a bit of extra headroom on the order of a few percent. I've seen pictures of the 131kWh battery labels actually being somewhere around 135 actual. That's not much, but it's there. There's an argument to be made about charging...

I feel like people are overcomplicating things a bit. I think the Lightning isn't working for Ford because they invested on the assumption they would sell huge volumes and its present sales are not enough to recoup costs. Large volume is not happening because it costs too much for what you get...

I would guess the Gen 2 large is different because Rivian had quite the glut of Gen 1 larges in Q2 2024. That's where they focused the best of their discounts during the sales. The current 'large' looks to fill the niche of the standard+, which sold well enough in its price point they never put...

The mention of mobile techs was a nod to where it was brought up that it wasn't included in the service center math in the OP. I was curious and asked the last mobile guy who came to me about it. The majority of what they do is fixing annoyances, regardless of being unable to fix every sort of...

I'm afraid you'd discover that most of Rivian's service workload is fixing bullshit comparatively little stuff like rattles and panel gaps. That's most of what mobile techs do too. That's also the reason why big problems are able to jump the service line to such a degree. Most of the stuff...

I was in the same position you were a few months ago. Though before going further everything depends on how much money you're willing to spend. If you would drop Rivian money on an F-150 platinum or the like, the conclusion I came to was that when the price was equal, Rivian was offering more...

I sincerely wish people would stop trying to correct me on this. Yes, there is actually a bug in that update where the auto ride height constantly turns itself back on, even if you turned it off the instant your ass landed in the seat. There have been multiple threads from various people...

One thing about GFCI breakers is that any charger that has one built-in will often have problems if there are two on the same circuit. Any NEC code newer than 2014 will require this in garage outlets, however if you have a typical class A 5mA GFCI it will often trip due to the ground-fault...

It's nice to see there's some mention of tracks being interrupted. Happens in Tidal all the time. But I notice there's not even a mention of the perpetually re-enabling auto-ride height bug, not that there was any mention of it being implemented as a 'feature' either. Since it's clear that they...

One of the reasons people gripe on a public forum is that bad publicity is hard to bury and often motivates a company to do something about it more than what's written in service tickets or customer feedback. The forums like this and reddit are a place where potential buyers can see the noise...

The important point to convey here is that the R1 plant was already an enormous sunk cost, absolutely dwarfing everything that required changes for R2. It was losing money. The only way to keep it open and avoiding losing all that investment was to make it stop losing money. After a point the...

I don't know about you guys, but I would've jumped on Rivian a lot faster if they had an extended cab with a longer bed as an option vs the quad cab. That option is extinct in EVs and endangered in ICE offerings. I don't use the rear passenger seats enough to justify having them, except...not...