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It’s certainly possible if someone got in early enough on a few of those companies. I’ve never met someone who actually has money who talks like that though.

That’s the least of it. Nearly all our power plants are coal or diesel and houses are heated by diesel furnaces and wood/pellet stoves.

Move to Alaska and solve one of your problems while making the other worse. You can drive with your windows down all summer and enjoy fresh air but in the winter cars are idling everywhere for hours.

I’d definitely keep bringing it up and seeing if you can get a replacement. For perspective, assuming the airbag drops six inches over ten days it’s only a loss of .025”/hour which is quite small. For a daily driver the loss of less than half an inch per night wouldn’t be much of an inconvenience.

It’s more than double what Rivian can buy each year and purchased by a company that can negotiate an extended purchasing agreement with no doubts as to its longevity.

They are stupid expensive but in Rivian’s defense they don’t have the massive buying power that Toyota enjoys.

Most mechanical items have an acceptable rate of loss/damage/wear/etc. Something like a suspension damper might be measured as a height or pressure loss over a specified period. Below some limit is within acceptable range, above calls for replacement.

Not utility scale, but sustained fusion has been achieved for short periods (22 minutes is the record). It will be here eventually to power our solid state batteries.

The math behind the numbers is interesting to compare. For shits ‘n giggles - burning fossil fuels I make about 320 tons of CO2 a year for work, about 10 tons driving per year and another 7 tons heating my house.

Sounds like a good time. We just got two feet fresh snow but it’s dropped to -45° now so there’s no enjoying it until next week sometime.

Just be happy you have nice warm weather like that to complain about.

The need to make money so they last long enough to make my R3X, not offer a $200k electric camper van with very limited market appeal.

They are in the business of making money after all. Every auto maker does this. Want the nice shiny metallic paint, $500-2500 extra. Black wheels, fork over another $2000. It’s not new, it’s not ridiculous, it’s business as usual for the last several decades I’ve been buying vehicles.

Who cares? Do we complain that Rivian locks the electric tonneau cover behind a paywall? It was standard at one point. You can’t even get a spare tire anymore without paying for it which is far more egregious than charging money for the frunk insert.

Raptor R is a superior offroad vehicle compared to a Rivian, and it should be. The Raptor is designed pretty much exclusively for that while Rivian’s are a jack of all trades approach that are very good at a lot of things but not great at any.

Five brake jobs in 120k miles? On a non-performance vehicle like an Escape you’d be looking at two sets of pads, one set of rotors and two brake fluid changes if you kept up with it properly. Do the work yourself and that’s about $500 and two Saturday mornings over a ten year period. Oil...

No shock that a cheaper to buy, own and operate vehicle is cheaper in the long run. Rivian’s are not meant for someone who wants to save money, they’re meant for someone who wants a relatively high end vehicle that’s also an EV.

Put it on when you need it, take it off when you don’t. Hard to steal what’s not on the truck.

That would change the equation quite a bit. Based on the price structure I think it’s just three total expansions not three per power wall but could easily be wrong. One wall plus three expansions is $26,800 and two walls plus three expansions is $35,000 or about the price of a single...

I’m tempted to buy one for a portable home battery backup. The max Tesla powerwall configuration you can select online is 4+3 expansions for $50k with 94.5kwh capacity. A little bit more money and you get an extra 30kwh and a vehicle to drive around.