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Right now, 800v gets you absolutely no time savings at 90% of charging stops, and R2 will charge faster than Volvo's best. Two years from now, pretty much the same--maybe 80%.

FM has a useful radius of 75ish miles. If you have plenty of FM station access, maybe you are not adventuring.

Looks like they have edges to trap sand, mud, snow, and water.

you get both

Out of Spec channels have consumed a zillion hours of my time over the years!

Kyle, which wheels/tires do you like better?

Savage Geese vid is good

That is still a big question: Are the 20s 3PMSF?

I thought the same when I got my R1 3 years ago. Not many options and no 3 peak all-weather options.

If you equip the BMW to match a $60k R2, the price hits $70-75k, and the R2 will still be more rugged and faster. I just bought a 26 X5 50e (traded in a Grand Cherokee 4Xe), so I like BMW a lot--just not as much as Rivian ;-)

If the light interior is not available on LE, I will pass. I doubt lidar will be useful for a few more years.

This is a pretty good comparison of R2, Volvo, and BMW.

The BMW price gap is at least $10k. For those who go on 600-mile-plus road trips more than a few times each year and do not hunt, fish, camp, hike, etc., and prefer established Euro badging--maybe spending an extra $10k makes sense. "You're sorely mistaken if you think it's the off road...

I doubt they changed tooling, so tread depth is probably the same. My guess is that the rubber compound may be simpler/cheaper--which is likely to affect cold-weather traction. My R2 will spend a lot of time in Colorado and Minnesota, and I would love to find out that winter performance is decent.

HP difference and suspension upgrade?

Funny and true

The paint pricing model is super similar to every Rivian ever sold. Rivian has smaller runs through their (probably) single paint line than BMW. It is probably a comparatively high cost process for them. If this is their biggest R2 failure, kudos to Rivian. I think the value offered by R2 LE is...

“Like” included in every sentence is the single most annoying thing in American culture, except red caps.

You can’t even take a Model Y on an even slightly rutted road.

My fingers are crossed