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Spotted in Austin. @skyote

So the Rivian isn't coming? Tuesday would've been a perfect day for me lol

I believe there are some pretty strict legal requirements for the sound. If it is configurable, it's not like you're going to be able to choose like a jetsons sound or anything, it's going to be a few of the legal options.

One of the youtubers I watch looked at a Xpeng P7, which is a chinese produced electric car. One thing that stuck out to me was the door handles, they look very similar to the Rivian. They present when unlocked, and go in when locked. To my knowledge, no other cars don't have similar door...

I agree. I don't have an electric car yet, but I've been planning routes based on where I go, and frequently go through Lubbock. I feel like a DCFC in Lubbock would bridge Sweetwater and NM pretty comfortably. It's the first place I looked on this map haha

Tacoma's are wildly reliable (except for frame rust, which I agree is a crazy problem to have). Several have gone a million miles with minimal maintenance. I'm just a nerd, but I'm also obsessed with the Toyota Production System. They literally wrote the book on modern manufacturing. Also...

100%. Great, they have spotify integration. You know what they probably don't have? My weird podcast app that I love. I'm not transferring listen history to spotify or anything else. Android Auto works seamlessly with it. Not like a dealbreaker or anything, just annoying, especially because...

I have a trend of naming my trucks after Imperial Star Destroyers. My current truck is the "ISD Judicator" The name can only come once I drive it though.

I'd 100% buy the Wolf if I was coming to market anytime in the next couple years. It's a little smaller than I'd like, but the price they're advertising for an electric pickup is hard to beat.

@skyote, there's another very good Texas school that uses red. If I see your Red R1S I may just think about TTU instead.

In and before college I worked a lot of lower wage jobs, including EMS, for a period of about 8 years. Not once did I work for a company that didn't break labor laws in some way. Even with labor laws, they're difficult to enforce because EEOC doesn't take proactive action, only reactive action...

Me sitting here driving a manual Toyota Tacoma access cab. I guess I'm the most niche group. I actually do want a quad cab now though lol

It looks like they went with a long bed, while that picture is still a short bed/shorter wheelbase. People are speculation that's an R1S wheelbase. Who knows how they'd handle the gear tunnel with a long bed/access cab. Probably not like that though lol

Looks like from the video the gear tunnel is damped/dampened/moistened/enwetened

It looks like it's a capacitance sensor, like modern touch screens, so unless that shrub has some weird electrical characteristics it shouldn't open the door. I agree though that I'd prefer a simpler mechanism. The sliding looks cool, but I imagine it'd get old 5 years in when I just want it to...

I'm personally hoping they work like Model 3 door handles and them sticking out is just a weird pre-production quirk.

If your job needs to be protected by legislation, maybe we don't need your job.

Extended cab usually refers to the 1.5 cabs lots of trucks have, typically with suicide doors. It's extended in contrast to a single cab, not a double cab like what the R1T has. So it's still called extended despite the fact that there's no single cab.

Yeah we've got 6% of our population fully vaccinated, that's enough for critical mass, right?

Sure, but battery packs are expensive, and the labor for the swap would be difficult. At very least, it'd lower the value of however much it costs to do the swap, which I imagine would be significant.