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This guy made a shield for it but never posted the file to print your own. I don't think he sells them either which is weird.

That's probably just what the RDS system is broadcasting. This is just like when a new song comes on.

I'm guessing Rivian found the take rate on the performance option at purchase went down with people thinking, "Hey, I can always buy it later." And the post-sale performance upgrades didn't offset this decrease, "This truck is plenty fast for me." Most people don't mind rolling an upgrade into...

It's interesting that Canada had a 100% tariff on Chinese EVs to begin with since they have no auto industry to protect. I think they make batteries though. I wonder if it was originally in place as a strategic alignment with the US?

That's silly. A damper that's weeping has a failed seal and needs to be replaced. Some states will fail your annual safety inspection for this. These things don't repair themselves. Since the fluid in the dampers is linked to the HRC system, this risks introducing debris and grit back into...

Someone who is okay with 300 miles of range doesn't love public charging, they just don't cry about it.

You could add more energy to the system, and some platforms will, but automakers could also make gas tanks a lot bigger. They generally don't because keeping that much energy in reserve that is never used is bad for cost, efficiency, packaging, (and for EVs, L2 charging). SSBs promise roughly...

I may want/need to suddenly use all the truck's power, but I never want to suddenly reduce my energy consumption by 6%.

There were also a lot of purchases that occurred earlier than they might have otherwise because the tax credit was disappearing. People may have been planning to purchase an EV in Q4, but with the net pricing almost certainly going up, they decided to buy in Q3. This displaces Q4 purchases and...

Kinda depends on what an "engineering request" is. If it is to get coffee, I am not impressed. I guess "fix PaaK" is in the 14% that goes over 5 days. Otherwise it is an interesting story. The use of transparent filament to study oil flow is clever and is a different advantage for 3d...

The grass is always greener... I wish my dual motor could just have the motors permanently engaged 99% of the time so I can have the responsiveness of sport mode in standard ride height. This would be the default mode, and it wouldn't reset to some lower mode after a sleep. I only need the...

This is a much more exaggerated, unrealistic example. Think of a truck with a 100 kwh battery with 50% charge at 80F. You've got 50kwh available. Overnight the temp drops to 10F, and when cold, that battery is only capable of dispensing 50kwh, so your 50% SoC would now read 100% on that...

Hmm, I am less familiar with gen2, but this is what Gemini came up with after a few tries. I asked it to give me the mi/kwh needed to get the EPA rated range in all available trims and wheel/tire combinations of a new R1T: Trim & Battery Pack Wheel / Tire Combo EPA Range Target mi/kWh Dual...

I guess I just don't care about the other modes and what kind of efficiency I'd get in them. Maybe I'm alone in that assessment, but probably not. As you mention, Rivian doesn't publish those stats anyway, so the standard range/efficiency is what they'd all be graded against, at least as...

Yeah, EVSE/constant load requires 20% derating. I'd install a Tesla UWC where you want it right now. You can daisy chain another one (or two, or five) off the original one on the same circuit. If you're charging more than one EV, they will share the circuit's capacity. Even if you only have...

That's the problem OP is trying to solve when using a "dumb" EVSE. If not at home, the process is not automated. You have to set the amps each time you plug in the truck if the EVSE doesn't know what to limit the current to. Since most EVSEs only have 14-50 and 5-15 plugs, it'll default to 32...

Kinda depends on your use case and where you live. If you have L2 charging at home, you'll use L3/DCFC relatively infrequently anyway - only on trips over ~250 miles or so without destination charging. I don't tow, and most of my trips are under 500 miles, so DCFC and destination charging has...

If the app works, it sounds like a decent alternative to buying a portable EVSE with plug adapters that automatically set the correct amps for you. My partner and I took different road trips last months. She had her Mach-E and I had my Rivian. She used my Tesla UMC with a 6-20 adapter to...

Looks like OP may have just traded in his Rivian due to this. 8/26 is the last time he was seen. Taking OP at his word about caliper compression, it sounds like crude software engineering caused the failure artificially.

Mine seemed to have been improving in Nov-Dec, but is back to its old tricks of not being able to unlock without getting the app out. This is almost exclusively a problem at home, however. The truck does wake a lot more consistently for HVAC commands now though. This time last year it was...