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I am so glad I don't have a gen 2. Plenty of people in Rivians don't read the exhaustive owner's manual looking to unearth hidden gems of workarounds for lethal problems. Passengers, kids, guests, all will never have read the manual. If a driver is incapacitated in a crash, they won't be able to...

Some small people don't have the strength or leverage for that.

This is super cool and perfect for Joshua Tree, which can really use charging. Please Yellowstone and Yosemite next.

Yesterday I noticed a mismatched panel gap in my R1T I hadn't noticed before. Similarly, the car was delivered with a small dent. My R1S was delivered with a missing interior door handle guard. The R1S before that had the A pillar trim pop off. I didn't realize all of this was due to the fact...

For a long time other people who drive my Rivians thought they were getting good efficiency by looking at the history view on the instrument panel, which shows a heavy black line around 2 mi/kwh. They thought it was the "target", roughly equivalent to the EPA rated range, and felt good when they...

The Rivian interior is pretty good, and having an SUV which actually moves around quickly is amazing. It makes every other large car feel like a sloth in comparison. Reliability is a problem and range is a lie, but the experience, overall, is very good.

California already does have a cap and trade system for gasoline. That's where the article was written. Much of California's electricity still comes from natural gas, though, so the difference isn't as high as it could be.

This article is really silly. Of course you shouldn't buy an EV unless you can charge at home. DC fast charging in California is a shitshow--expensive, queuing for chargers, and even if you get one, it takes 10x-20x longer than a gas fill. It only makes sense if you can charge while you buy your...

Ah, so I expect they will fire even more of their support staff, and service will continue to degrade, all for an AI assistant which will be useless for the problems customers actually have, which require parts replacement. But, maybe I'm wrong and the assistant will be able to get customers to...

Electric vehicles restrict your freedom compared to gas cars. That is truth. Unfortunately gas is killing the planet, so sacrifices must be made. Rivian lies about EPA range by including the city mileage number in the blended result, which doesn’t help. Legally, they can do it. Ethically, it is...

I don’t expect Rivian to be first in reliability. I do expect it not to be dead last after working on these cars for at least seven years and charging a premium price. EVs are actually simpler than ICEs. Look at the great job the Korean manufacturers have done with their first EVs. Volvo as...

Three out of three Rivians I have had have had issues. Consumer Reports surveys are reliable and I agree with their conclusions. Rivian does not know how to make anything but high defect cars. Period.

I went back and looked for Atmos on the tracks I’ve been A/Bing, and I hear an improvement even for songs which aren’t in Atmos, though. Apple Music app may have borrowed spatial processing (the so called “Sound Enhancer”) from desktop iTunes. That works even on stereo outputs. I guess that’s...

What’s interesting to me is that this spatial processing does not apply to Bluetooth streamed audio from Apple Music on the iPhone, or is applied differently. I have Atmos enabled on the Apple Music app on my iPhone, but that doesn’t sound as good when streamed through the Rivian, even though...

This illustrates the arms race in cars, where you have to drive a big car to be safe from other big cars.

I haven’t seen the R2 in person, but I have seen pictures of tall and short people next to it. I like the boxy look on the R1 (well, except for the headlights). On the R2 it just looks claustrophobic, like I’m crammed in a small box, because the car is so tiny. Maybe it will feel better when...

The new one is named Baymax.

The key to profitability is to drive down parts cost with volume. That needs demand. Better to make a sexy car people want than a cheap car nobody cares about. EVs are already at a disadvantage by taking away people’s freedom with limited range and poor, lengthy and scarce refueling options. You...

I’ll be switching to the Scout; it still has soul. Rivian is turning into the GM of electric cars. I will enjoy being among the 1% who can still luxuriate with real buttons and switches on my dash.

I have lossless Apple Music on my iPhone, but when streaming identical tracks, Apple Music in the car sounds much better. They may have taken the spatial processing from desktop iTunes. It makes the Rivian audio system decent! If I have to pay extra for better audio, I will. I would prefer if I...