Autoweek
"But the Rivian, for its part, worked flawlessly, even in rock crawling, through deep sand, over washboard roads, and across miles and miles of Interstate. You can set the drive mode on the big central screen and the car reacts.
For sand and off-road it rises up, for highways it...
WGLT.org
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), aka Machinists, have been doing organizing work at Rivian for most of this year, said IAM regional organizer Bob Beloit. They have an office in Bloomington and have been meeting with Rivian workers, doing house...
Yahoo FInance - Rivian (RIVN) CEO RJ Scaringe isn't losing sleep over Tesla's (TSLA) Cybertruck, even though the two companies' high-end electric pickups are set to compete.
“If you were to think of the Venn diagrams with customers, there's probably not a lot of overlap,” he told the audience...
Article
Two of the largest publicly held charging networks in the U.S., ChargePoint and Blink Charging, have less than a year of cash left, according to their most recent quarterly filings.
They both said their business models, reliant on charger equipment sales more than owning and operating...
Loans... or premptive strike "bailout" ?
Speeding grants and other subsidies to fund conversion of existing auto plants to build electric vehicles could help the White House blunt criticism from automakers and the United Auto Workers (UAW) union over proposed environmental rules aimed to help...
Fast Company:
"As Adrian Clarke—a professional car designer who now writes design critiques for the automobile publication The Autopian—told me back then: “The Cybertruck is a low polygon joke that only exists in the fever dreams of Tesla fans that stands high on the smell of Elon Musk’s...
I'm working from home yesterday and today. This morning when I checked, the R1S indicated 145 miles range. It's now showing 153 miles range. EVSE has not been connected since Monday. I did the software update Monday.
Free energy! ?
Has anyone else seen this? My only guess is that it was cool...
The Street
“The automaker, however, had a major setback in Cologne on Aug. 10 as it informed workers that it must delay production of the Explorer because of new global safety rules for the vehicle's powertrain, Electrek reported. The company said it would instead begin producing and selling...
Elon just can't stop himself from saying this kind of stuff......
Electrek
On X (formerly Twitter), Musk often shines a spotlight on some of those true believers who only show the good performance of Tesla’s FSD Beta. This week, he commented on one of those by claiming that he believes Tesla...
Heatmap news
I’ve clipped a few parts of the article below, but I think it is a worthwhile full read. This is not a clickbait article. Great insight into RJ’s thoughts.
Note RJ’s use of the term Premium, not Luxury, lol.
“The objective of our R1 program was to serve as our handshake to the...
Mileage Boosting Scammers are now targeting EVs. This device promises up to 60% mileage boost on any EV. Gotta get me one!!!!!
On ICE vehicles, it was amazing inventions like the "Fuel Shark" which plugs into the cigarette light ? , Water Injection, Fuel line magnets, etc.
The following are...
In my area there are a handful of free Volta Level 2 Destination Chargers at Giant Food Stores. I knew they were free, so I tried one. I intentionally did not down load the app. I just plugged in and it started charging - app not required, I was somewhat surprised since Volta Media's free model...
Yahoo Finance
“A year ago, used EV prices were on the upswing, rising faster than the average used car,” said iSeeCars executive analyst Karl Brauer in the report. “Electric vehicle prices are now falling at nearly 10 times the rate of the average used vehicle, reflecting a clear shift in EV...
Interesting article that tells us where the industry is headed, we can assume Rivian is planning the same. RJ already leaked plans to change the R1 to a network architecture.
"Across the room from Ford Advanced Product Development chief Doug Field was a pile of two-dozen auto parts, each with...
Tesla has discontinued right hand drive and here’s their accessory solution to handling tickets, etc. through the right window from the left driver’s seat. o_O
Grab a drive through coffee with this?
I thought this was a fake article but appears to be true.
Waiting for the press to announce that they will be in mass production in three years. ? ?
Phys.org
"Osaka Metropolitan University scientists have achieved an unprecedented stabilization of the high-temperature phase of Li3PS4—a critical material for all-solid-state batteries—thus attaining...