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Ship your stuff, drive the truck. I'd wager you'll enjoy the trip far more by stopping half as much, not worrying about the trailer itself, and you might even save money. All that extra DCFC, shorter travel days, and more hotels and meals add up. I am sure there are people who've done it and...

That is terrific, but this isn't 2019, and some stations here are exceptionally busy. V4s are still less than 20% of the supercharger network, though it's good to see them upgrading to the "hybrid" V3/V4 cabinets with the longer cords. Not always, but sometimes. I wasn't referring to RAN...

Who said they get "lots of updates?" Neither the Mach-E nor the Lightning are ICEVs anyway which was the topic. I still wasn't talking to you. You are constructing an argument with nobody.

Some busy Tesla stations are terrible for vehicles like the R1 that don't have a charge port on the driver's side quarter panel. You need to wait for two adjacent spots to open up so you can block one to fit in, or hope that the rightmost stall has an open spot to the right, or that there is a...

Not sure what you're on about. I was replying to a comment asking for someone to identify an ICEV that gets updates. Many Fords get updates.

Your wall connector was using 6kwh per day while not connected to anything? That's 250w to do nothing. Something seems amiss. How did you come to this conclusion? There is really nothing for the connector to do while no vehicle is plugged in.

Looks like it to me. Rivian killed it with this color, IMO. Great choice, @Luxus!

I can see a smaller capacity battery taking more of a beating on cycles, but it also sounds like the battery is being cycled unnecessarily for it to be failing in such a short amount of time. It's like the DC/DC converter isn't actually doing a proper job in powering the vehicle while it's on...

If you have identifying evidence of the perpetrator's vehicle damaging your vehicle, you don't have to pay your deductible. That's not for nothing.

Rivian should be ashamed of themselves. They tout how the cameras keep your "gear" safe all over their sales material. Okay, that's nice marketing fluff, but really the situation OP experienced is far more likely to occur, and far more expensive to address. Triggering a capture event to write...

You need a 240v battery power station to "buffer" the output from the Rivian to your house. An EcoFlow Delta Pro 3 or Ultra will take 120v from the truck and output both 240v and 120v. These aren't cheap though. The Rivian doesn't (yet?) support backfeeding power out of the charge port, so...

Well, I'm not going to go list off every improvement that different ICE manufacturers have released via OTA updates. I don't know what the point of that exercise is. My point is that these kinds of updates are not specific to Rivian, or even EVs in general. All manufacturers now love them...

Ford has deployed a number of improvements to Sync4 since 2022, including wireless AA/CP (previously wired only), interface changes, and games. BMW added streaming, gaming, and interface improvements. Mercedes added Dolby Atmos, info on navigation POIs via Google, and other UI changes like new...

Your initial message was in response to someone who keeps their vehicles for an extended period of time. You're free to replace your own vehicles as often as you like, but it's silly to pretend like they've gone bad or they have to be replaced with a similar lifecycle of a laptop. You can...

What does it say? That I don't view things as inherently disposable? Or that I buy nice things because they last longer? I've read those threads. I've called Rivian out for small things that have been withheld from gen1 when it's only software. But there is actually very little that gen1...

This is a terrible comparison. An EV is no more a laptop other than the fact that both have touchscreens and a battery. They're not disposable technology and should have a much longer lifespan than a computing device. If EV manufacturers were to tell their customers that the lifespan of their...

What do you mean people don't seem to agree? 4 wheel steering helps stability at higher speeds with the wheels in-phase (same direction). Counter-phase (different direction) steering helps at low speed to shorten the turning radius and make the car feel smaller. Basically every 4 wheel...

I just want an R2T.

I realize technology moves on, and some of these variables may change, but they are way out of proportion for this to be viable. Even if they were possible, you're still only getting a relatively small amount of energy into the vehicle. There's really no need to charge a capacitor at such a...

Even if you're getting 3mi/kwh, that's still 33kwh needed to go 100 miles. To charge that in 60 seconds would require 2 megawatts of power. Capacitors are more than an order of magnitude less dense than a lithium battery, so the vehicle would look more like a box truck. Plus, with this...