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I went with the Chargepoint Homeflex for this reason. My utility company gave a $500 rebate for it. I also had it hardwired in so it is on a 60amp circuit and can deliver 48amps to the car. More expensive than plugging it in to an existing outlet, but I didn't have an existing outlet anyway...

They sell every car they make months before they make it and are increasing manufacturing capacity all the time. They are fine. I am far far from a Tesla fan boy but headlines like this are trying to stir something up where there is nothing. EV demand is increasing and they can’t meet it all on...

FYI I asked CS about the 5vs7 seater variations a while back: https://www.rivianforums.com/forum/threads/is-there-any-real-advantage-to-having-the-5-seat-configuration.2205/#post-59552

Rivian is definitely watching Tesla and following its playbook. - limited in cabin controls outside of the big screen, check - direct to consumer approach with no dealers, check - making your own ui and not supporting carplay/aa, check - pushing out big performance numbers that 90% of your...

When demand far outstrips supply don’t expect a discount. Instead worry about Tesla style price hikes.

I too am appalled by the night view on the Id 4 camera. My 2014 forester’s camera is even better.

I never buy individual stocks. My money is all in low cost funds: S&P 500 fund A mid cap fund A small cap fund An international fund I had considered breaking my pattern of never buying individual stock for Rivian, but I can't justify it. A near 80b market cap at this juncture feels absurd...

I agree. My title has a VP in front of it. I also feel left out / excluded from some things I shouldn't be. It isn't always discrimination. I also have forgotten to include people on decisions they should have been included on in the past. That said, there are definitely plenty of corporate...

I'm in no rush either. Just got a new ID.4 for the family hauling, and my Subaru will get me where I need to go off road for many years to come if I want. For me, delays just increase the chance I will actually take delivery. Delays mean: - better info on reliability - more mature / less...

Once again: hard caps are stupid. That 80k limit for the R1S would make many option combos unreasonable. With the base MSRP $2k lower, it is a little better for the R1T, but still limiting. For the R1S you can't get a paid paint option, forest edge interior, and the off road package and stay...

Much like Land Rovers, I expect most Rivian's to never stray too far from pavement or the charging infrastructure. People buy brands like this aspirationally more often than for their reality. Hummers, Jeeps, Land Rovers, trucks, etc are often just used as city / suburban people movers. But I...

We live extremely close to eachother. Same neighborhood. Sadly neither of us will have the car soon so the other can see it. I reserved after you and am going for the R1S

I looked in to them this summer and my wife eventually went with the ID.4 (which we are happy with). The wait times for it are long your only real hope is to let every dealer know you want one and hope they call you when a customer order comes in who declined delivery. I got a number of calls...

I chime in on these "Range is king" discussions for the same reason I correct my idiot uncle every time he posts insanity on Facebook: so other people see that there are other points of view and not to just accept it. Also in this case, I think the American EV consumer is overly fixated on...

The alternative argument is that if $7500 on an $80000 purchase switches it from affordable to non-affordable, it might not be a wise financial move to stretch that much to buy a car. Personally I won't buy a car I can't buy with cash (I might finance because interest rates are dirt cheap, but...

I recently posted this in another thread on this topic. Cut and pasting to here: I really don’t buy in to the range is king argument at all. For most people nearly every EV on the market can be charged at home and only need to visit a fast charger a handful of times a year. Most Americans...

I think you might be surprised how little of the autopilot system is hand coded. A lot of it is using machine learning (ML) platforms and feeding in the right training data so the ML learns what to do. generating this data and classifying it well is a big part of the problem. I am sure there...

I really don’t buy in to the range is king argument at all. For most people nearly every EV on the market can be charged at home and only need to visit a fast charger a handful of times a year. Most Americans drive less than 50 - 100 miles a day for over 350 days a year. Unless you: - road trip...

I am more interested in the Subaru offering. It is likely to have slightly higher ground clearance / a more light off-roading friendly setup. That said, the specs are nothing groundbreaking.

260 miles on AT tires at 75mph with a decent headwind is pretty good. I’d also be pretty happy with that.