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My wife and I just completed a road trip from the San Francisco, CA bay region up the Highway 101 coast route to Oregon's wine country and back, around 1,400 total miles. The car routed us preferentially to RAN fast chargers, which we had largely to ourselves, plus to a few Electrify America...

Nix the ugly seats, and the orange mirrors, and then add fender flares like an old group-B rally car, and I'm in! And then if someone makes a Martini livery wrap for it, I might just faint.

If there are 68K reservations for the R2 to date, and 75% are existing R1 owners, then 51K existing Rivian owners put down a reservation. I think Rivian delivered around 80K R1s total, so almost 65% of R1 owners have reserved an R2?

I visted the SF location last night at around 10PM. Nine cars charging, so plenty of availability. The location is very convenient, and I really liked the bright and open feel, the seating, and the bathrooms. For some reason, charging was free that night, so I got $42 worth of juice for $0, and...

The chrome is gone! Nice!

ABT - anything but Tesla. If you can't get excited enough about an R1T or an R1S, try a Macan Ev Turbo to split the difference.

I have the same on mine, though far less of it. I suspect that it is washer fluid that has "mineralized" on evaporation. The crusty stuff does not want to come off with even moderate scrubbing, so I'll have to try something chemical (like vinegar) to remove it - staying well away from the camera...

The round seven-pin female "socket" is standard, and that's all we get. The Kuat rack has a "four pin" connector, thus the need for a 7-to-four "round to square" adapter.

Looking at the first photo, upper left and upper right of the rack, each a horizontal bar about .75" high and 12" wide. It's dark gray in the photo but glows red like a brake light when illuminated. It's mounted at an angle so that it's visible with the rack folded up or down.

Aptera Motors (https://aptera.us/) respectfully disagrees! With a much smaller and much more efficient EV, vehicle solar can in fact work quite well... at least in my sunny California.

The Marlon stuff looks pretty cool - not that I would know anything about the topic. People really drive around with rigs like the below? Looks scary.

They absolutely might have a clearance problem. I didn't measure the clearance with a tape measure, but clearance with really wide handlebars, on the inside position at least, would be close at best, requiring some padding perhaps. If the MTB was a tall one, the bars might poke over the top of...

I just added some pictures, updating the original post.

Update: I dropped the R1S at the South San Francisco Service Center. They said it might take 1-2 weeks, but called after around three days to say that the leak was fixed. It was. No leaks since.

For those folks shopping for an R1S hitch bike rack: The very expensive but truly awesome Kuat Piston Pro X fits on an R1S with no modifications required. It folds up 90 degrees for storage without touching the bodywork. Folded down, it holds our two e-Bikes with plenty of clearance between the...

Agreed. I know someone who works in the Hydrogen industry, and they are thumbs-down on using the stuff for cars and thumbs up for industrial use.

Hydrogen for cars? Anyone making that argument is going to struggle to do so with numbers. Environmentally, the best possible case is "green hydrogen" - hydrogen made with renewable electricity like Solar. But Turning electricity into hydrogen, refrigerating it, transporting it, then burnning...

Some custom-fit bags for the upper part of the Frunk, for travel. Perhaps 3 bags that together fully full the frunk.

Our Lithium batts don't mind sitting partially charged, unlike old NiCad batteries. So 20%-70% is OK - actually better than OK; you are being nice and gentle. I do the same. I do wonder about one thing. Lithium battery "'battery management systems" (BMSs) have a "balancer" function that...

No adapter is required. All of the US Porsche hydrids that I know about use the same connector as the US Rivian.