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The problem is the adventure van market is sooooooo much smaller than the R2 line’s market. Mid sized electric suv that has off road credentials will sell at least 2 orders of magnitude more units.

My one concern with this is privacy: Tesla's record everything you do. The rental car companies now have access to all of that data. It is great for them if they want to find out where that door ding came from that they want to charge people for, but do customers really want Hertz seeing that...

For an employee, if they finance it, basically Rivian makes their first 2 years worth of payments. If they hate it at the end of that, they can likely sell it and walk away without a massive financial hit. The 24 month / 1k stipend from Rivian is basically a nearly free car for 2 years

I’m all for hoping things improve with OTA updates. However people should make purchase choices based on what already exists in my opinion. Banking on future improvements in order to be satisfied is a recipe for disappointment. If what is there today misses a key feature for someone or is so...

That would be awkward, wouldn't it :)

I just paid $1300 to have a hardwired EVSE installed. (ChargePoint home flex) 60 amp circuit, no panel work, 30 feet from panel but they had to run the line through a wall. edit: I did not use Qmerit

The cyber truck looks like what the lazy kid made for his pinewood derby car in cub scouts.

I could have sworn that somebody put a usb stick in during one of the first drives in Normal and it worked. Maybe I am misremembering. Either way Spotify and Bluetooth as the only options kind of stinks. Hopefully Alexa integration allows the use of other music services.

Has nothing to do with standing out, I just like orange :) forest green is what I will likely end up with.

What does that make us? absolutely nothing, which is what your are about to become.

My guess is they are limiting invites at this point to people who live in an area they are willing to deliver early vehicles too. It stinks for people who don't live close enough to one of those locations, but with limited availability for test drives, the choice makes sense.

Plus, going with a new start up has a ton of risk in terms of service and support. I’m willing to take that risk with the Rivian because there is nothing else available in the R1S or R1T class: biggish EVs that can actually go off road. Given Tesla is a known quantity my desire to try the Lucid...

Even ignoring the construction bent, his more general point that long range, frequent towing is hard in an EV is fair. EVs are not going to be good for daily long range drives or daily towing at any distance. The charging infrastructure and charging speed would quickly become frustrating. the...

I don’t think time to market is nearly as key as everyone thinks with the R1 series. Sure first mover advantage is nice, but it they ship a product that has problems and a limited service infrastructure then their brand will become “that startup that makes a cool product that breaks and that you...

This. So much this. I am both more aggressive and more efficient than my wife. I constantly get 10% better gas mileage in our ICE and have a similar gain in our EV.

You misspelled ‘Merica

Because the Tesla is a proven product. Or they don’t want a big truck.

Tesla just raised prices recently. It has nothing to do with costs, it has everything to do with supply and demand. same reason used car prices are through the roof. More people want Tesla’s than Tesla can produce. If Rivian is successful I expect you will see prices creep up. Right now they...

It shouldn't be a problem see https://www.rivianforums.com/forum/threads/driver-limitations.2220/post-59210 from earlier in this thread. Summary: you can activate it just fine in stop and go traffic.

That would be great for me, I live ~10 minutes from there