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The risk of using your car as a battery during a major disaster is that you don't know how long the power will be out for. If it's out for a very long time, you will end up with spoiled food and you'll be trapped because your car is dead. This is why I have an emergency generator with gallons...

Sport mode is indeed ridiculous, but the brakes are not correspondingly ridiculous. So, there is a risk there from underpowered braking.

My Gen 1 premium audio has been getting... worse. Static in the front right speaker which comes and goes. I don't know if it's software or not; I wouldn't be surprised, though. Rivian software is a cluster. OTA is used as an excuse to ship something before it works.

This is not a good sign for the quality of service/warranty repairs we can expect from Rivian going forward, as it reveals a "ha ha, no, we already have your money" attitude towards current owners. Current owners are just a cost center.

Nowhere in that post does anyone claim that EVs are literally attracting nails because they have magnets. I think your reading comprehension is faulty. To be a “nail magnet” is an expression, not to be taken literally. For example, I am a chick magnet, but that doesn’t mean I have issues near...

Being unlucky would be bad for my self image, so I’m definitely casting about for alternative explanations! Now that I think about it, though, I’ve never really won anything in Vegas, either.

I agree, they’re most common in the rear tires. I can’t imagine it’s bad luck, because it’s so consistent. Perhaps it’s more that I have more road use (and thus more data) than almost anyone, owning three EVs concurrently times 12 years. That’s a lot of EV miles. Sometimes I’m not the one...

… across three Rivians. I think this is the second nail I’ve taken in the tire within the first 2,000 miles. There is no pattern to it. Sometimes it’s close to home, sometimes it’s a hundred miles away, sometimes it’s at a school. Over 12 years of EV ownership I think I’ve repaired a flat...

So far there have been three scapes/dings on my R1T while it has ben street parked. Gear Guard didn't catch any of them. It's kind of a useless feature. Worse than useless since it promises something and then fails to deliver.

No major problems, but service replaced your jounce lines and gave you a new AC compressor? This is a new definition of "major" I was previously unaware of. You work from home, so I guess you don't need the car for very much. It must be nice to have such low standards.

“Customers with multiple vehicles will be prioritized to receive only their first NACS adapter based on their delivery timing (oldest to newest).” Perhaps this explains why I never received my second opt-in email. Rivian assumes I will never take a road trip with both cars (but they are wrong)...

It’s a very a bad look. Even with a divorce you can divide shares without selling. You’d only sell to buy someone out of a house and houses aren’t that expensive, relatively. His trading plan is a pessimistic one.

I think the Rivian service model is fundamentally flawed because of perverse incentives: service is a cost center, there is every motivation in the world to skimp on service, hide problems, etc. Show me the incentives and I will show you the outcome. Whereas, a dealer model creates a balance of...

I may want to occasionally look at my car's cameras when remote, which requires Connect+. So I'll make you a deal, Rivian: implement CarPlay and I'll subscribe for three years, even though the video quality on my R1 cameras is borderline unusable. :)

I only have dual Max Pack, it’s always Conserve Mode.

Fair enough, but it’s the distance from the last EV fast charger that counts for Rivian, not the distance from the last paved road. If I have to travel 70 miles from the fast charger to the overland start point, I can only do 30 miles in (at least in winter). This assumes I’m driving af 75 mph...

Yeah, but everyone carries extra gas in the back. I can't do that with my Rivian, so I'm stuck at about 100 miles one way for 200 miles round trip.

As a former owner, I disqualify the X personally. If the car is ever submerged everyone in the back is dead. Generally you don’t want to drive a car designed by an egoist who is mentally ill (Elon).

The fob is the more troubling one. It's expected Rivian software is too crappy to work with phones all the time. I would expect the fob to be pretty reliable. What's next, braking stops working?

One fear of mine is parking an EV inside my garage, only to have it set my house on fire in the middle of the night. Yes, this can happen in ICE cars too, but usually not in modern luxury ICEs. Having it occur when parked is in some ways even worse than a fire when driving or charging.