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I was mostly joking, but thanks. That's good news. Glad to see AI getting hammered. Maybe having google searches do live but poorly written summaries of static wikipedia articles a billion times a day isn't actually efficient? 🤷‍♂️

I guess a bunch of glowing reviews saying R2 has the hallmarks of a car that could dethrone the Model Y weren't equal to the glorious R2 news the market was expecting today.

Like a Brady Bunch fridge:

I think I'm day 1, maybe hour 1, as well. I don't remember exactly. My receipt email came Thursday, March 7, '24 at 12:07 pm (CT). What was day 1? We became a 2-EV family a month ago with a tax credit buzzer beater EV9 (and an ID4). I'm likely to hold my reservation till my 14-yo can drive...

I assumed he meant nobody was swayed because $100k cars didn't qualify for the tax credits. Very few Rivians received those. I wonder whether pricing the way they did was a mistake, at least if there were any economies of scale. Pushing the entry-level price $1,500 lower on R1Ts could have...

We had a Rivian space open up in the north suburbs here (Chicago area) last Fall I think. The city space had been open forever, maybe since the release, and it was only about 10 miles away. But sales boomed in my area after the local opening. On the one hand, I expect there are many markets...

I think ending the leasing loophole is phenomenal. That was like the special subsidy to large financial institutions law. Better to ease the standard on % domestic-built than to have a high standard that doesn't apply to certain customers.

>deliveries to customers around June 73rd. Illinois has a constitutional mandate to approve a budget by June 30th. They do pretty well (in terms of timeliness - my judgment of their budgeting isn't germane here), but it's common that at a minute to midnight, they'll take the batteries out of...

I don't get the 0-60 obsession. Over the course of any given hour's drive, the difference would add up to 12 seconds.

One weird note - the video starts with "Jeff", who claims he has "a great voice", and then that woman agrees. He has a horrible voice. And a voice that really sounded AI-generated. Who is their ad company or Chief Comms officer who signed off on that sh*t*? I wasn't quite clear how (or how...

I'd make the ticket about $5,000 if they were pulled over for a traffic violation and showed a license that had a CA address to go with their MT registration. I live in a 2-plate state, and I'd also pull every a-hole Tesla driver who skipped the front plate because he didn't want the bulge in...

My daughter, who knows my Rivian obsession, sang out as we drove past a delivery van this afternoon, “Isn't that a Rivian?” Sure enough it was. For Factor, a food delivery company I’d never heard of Cool to finally spot one. I actually might have seen one two weeks ago, but with no logo and...

Do you live in a rural/small town area? I see 2-3 Rivians a day and can’t drive a mile without passing 2 Teslas going the other way.

I believe you. So I was surprised this morning driving around the Little Egypt — the part of far southern Illinois that is culturally Kentucky/Arkansas — and saw two Rivs zero Cyber. I also want to mention to those saying demand has topped that I live in a community that just got a nearby...

You probably know this but just in case, or for anyone who doesn’t — your battery will stay a lot warmer in the garage, even if it’s detached and unheated. .

They just opened in Skokie. That surely affected Chicago. But I’m seeing a lot more Rivians in the north suburbs, including two families that are friends of my kids, in the last two months.

Not quite a joke, but I love this for Elon. Tesla is now offering existing leaseholders a way out of their lease, but only if they buy a Cybertruck. I'm pretty sure they've now sold to every single one of the 30,000 people in this country who are willing to drive a CT, and now they're utterly...

Sure. Also the fact that I"m from the Chicago north suburbs, where off-roading isn't a thing at all. I did see something about it, but it hadn't occurred to me that off-roaders could be the overwhelming majority of the users of a campground and the majority of the people in the area. That...

>camping We tried a few weeks ago, as a non-dune-buggy family who just wanted a place to tent-camp and didn't understand what Silver Lake was about. It was cramped and loud. The only cover between us and the three campsites within about 40 feet of us in different directions was the dust...

I’ll swap. I’m looking for a Rivian emblem for my ID4!?