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1. You'll get contacted by your guide to confirm your order. You'll also schedule a introductory call with your guide to get to know one another and ask questions. 2. You'll get a PBA to review and sign. 3. When your truck is ready to go, you'll get an invitation via email to begin "the 8...

Rivian's intent was to start at the high end of the market with the R1 "halo" products. Rivian has already started offering lower-spec options for the R1 platform to manage cost, which is a good idea; but I think the plan was always to move down-market with the R2+ products. So, the R1 with the...

Holy smokes! Nice. Thanks for the info.

Great analysis. I think this very clearly shows Rivian's thought process on re-aligning their pricing. Had they done a better job of prepping their customer base with an analysis kinda like this one, it would've helped a lot. Combine thoughtful analysis like this with a graduated price bump...

Yep. This. Nicely said.

Don't forget the dreaded cupholder debate. :D

My powered tonneau cover is still included in my package. I'm not 100% certain that that's a good thing, though, really. The biggest concern I have about subsystem durability on the truck is the powered bed cover. Seems like it may be prone to failure. People who don't get the powered tonneau...

Well, that's a cool feature update. Worth a $15K upcharge for most folks? Nah, probably not.

I get that you're upset, and I don't blame you. But you don't have cause for an action. The OEM has the right to change their pricing at any time. You didn't have pricing that was "locked in" contractually, and your deposit was fully refundable at any time. Not trying to piss you off. I fully...

Yep, done.

I got the call today, too! El Cap/Black Mountain LE, pre-order 11/26/2018. Should have the pre-purchase agreement in the next 48 hours. I got what seems to be the standard 4-6 weeks schedule as well. Exciting stuff! Looking forward to hearing more good news from all of you s00n too!

Rivian announced the vehicle on 11/26/2018 - which was 3 years and 3 months ago. They said from day one that wouldn't begin producing vehicles before December of 2020 - which was 1 year and 3 months ago. My pre-order was placed on 11/26/2018. I never had any expectation of getting my truck...

Shouldn't matter. If you plug your truck in it'll charge back up to the limit that you have set (the default Daily for Rivian is 70%) and then stop charging. Leaving the truck sitting at 65% vs. charging it back up to 70% won't affect the battery life positively or negatively.

I think it would great if, in seven or eight years, we could bring our R1 vehicles in to have them retrofitted with a new battery pack, charge management electronics and UI electronics. We could take advantage of all the technological advancements in the areas that age the most poorly (compute...

Good luck! Rivian seems like a great company that's doing exciting stuff during a major economic inflection point. Should be cool to have a front row seat.

The whole pandemic thing brought into specific relief the reality that the more efficient a supply chain is, the more fragile it is. We spent decades trying to figure out how to do just-in-time manufacturing for optimal cost-effectiveness. It worked well, but it made us super vulnerable to...

It's really not that simple. You can't just make semiconductor components out of modeling clay. First you have to have an adequate supply pipeline for the necessary raw materials. Then you have to build the chip fabrication facilities to manufacture the chips. You can't just whip those things up...

Yep, it's a good thing. And Rivian will likely be chucking better hardware into future iterations of the R1 platform (and the R2+) as the years go by. The challenge will be backward compatibility for early adopters like the people on this forum. If I get my truck in March 2022, will the hardware...

No, changing out the chips won't cause feature changes. Since Rivian designs and builds a lot of their electronics subsystems themselves, they can swap out one chip on their board with another comparable chip without causing any changes to the functionality of the board overall.

Ford has done a great job pivoting into the EV space so far. I hope they keep doing well. I'm looking forward to seeing some models designed from the ground up to be EV's. Should be interesting how they approach it.