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I had a CT based black R1T roll up next me at the Electrify America in the Auburn (MA) Mall parking lot on Sunday. I was super excited. They were too but probably taken aback a little by my excitement.

A+ brilliant!

I wonder if the Chelsea service center can provide the annual inspection.

After a 10-day road trip around the Canadian Maritimes, the R1T got much needed bath at the Alston Carwash. It was all hands on deck to figure out how to operate it. The truck was a big hit in Nova Scotia where a dozen people stopped to ask about it.

If that’s my yellow truck, it’ll be there until Thursday so go take a gander before I scratch it all up. My Guide asked me why I picked CY; I said so hunters don’t shoot it in the fall. He thought I was kidding. Welcome to New England, folks!

I have my delivery scheduled for Thursday. I’m on Cape Cod this weekend. I’m out of my mind excited. My wife keeps asking me to put down my phone and stop reading the owner’s manual.

This helps. This process has been far easier than it sounded. In fact, someone at Rivian asked me who my insurer was and took it from there. Massachusetts is so difficult that it’s just easier to have a Rivian agent take care it. I guess.

I have a VIN. I need a delivery date and odometer reading. Everyone seems relaxed about it but me. I’m a type-a person trying to relax. Late last year, I canceled several camping trips on account of my delivery date being changed so dramatically. I’m told I have a truck coming so I’ve started...

@adrock1212 , tell me about getting the insurance coverage completed in MA. I’m in a Catch-22. I’m told that I cannot get insurance until I have a delivery date. I’m told by the folks at Rivian Insurance to wait until the truck is ready and then everything will come together. My guide was...

I just met someone working in the Chelsea service center. She said she hasn’t heard anything about an up-coming first drive event. She said that she only knows of them two weeks before because she has to prep vehicles. She also suggested that Rivian was hyper focused on delivering trucks. So…...

I think this truck was in its lowest stance. So, in addition to Peter-Jackson-esque optical illusion, it looked small.

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I went to Chelsea to see the trucks with my own eyes. There were no Compass Yellow trucks there at the time (I’m told there’s one there now). I took a photo next to a Forest Green truck, for size to show my wife. While I was enthralled to see them for the first time, my only take away from the...

Rivian is like a pastry shop where early customers got in line all happy with their numbered tickets and then someone from behind the counter said, “people who want a scone please stand over here.” Then they start serving everyone else and the scone people are like, “hey, I really just wanted a...

Sadly, I am not. I will be in Maine sailing. Well, I’m not sad that I will be sailing but I will be bummed to miss a chance to see an R1T in person. Perhaps next selend

My wife and I visit Stowe a lot in our Taycan which gets 200 miles in the winter. We stop in West Lebanon at the Electrify America stations. That’ll get you to and from Sugarbush with 15 minutes of charge time with the Large Pack’s 250 winter miles.

If you’re traveling from Burlington to Boston, and your new to EVs (and you eat meat) might I recommend stopping in Hartford, VT, for your recharge. https://goo.gl/maps/vzQtrQ4eyPBqxg1V7 There’s a 62KW Charge Point station near Wicked Awesome BQQ. You can fuel up the truck while filling up...

Here’s a link to a cool kit for traveling to places unknown. https://www.taycanforum.com/forum/threads/a-kinder-gentler-smaller-more-affordable-and-useful-road-warrior-ev-charging-kit.6812/

Does anyone know who’s head of Rivian Adventure Network? Maybe it’s Matt Horton. https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewrhorton

So… this brings up a thought I’ve been kicking around. How do we get RJ’s attention? How do we make New England’s wilderness more accessible? This is not a call to belly-ache but one to get a crowd fired up. I’ve never thought of New England as a minor part of America’s great outdoors. Yet...