For anybody interested, there's currently a nice variety of R1Ts at the Denver service center:
-White on 20's
-Launch Green on 20's
-Rivian Blue on 22's
And inside there's at least one more Launch Green getting prepped for delivery.
Disliked them originally based on photos. in person, they actually look really good.
if you haven’t yet seen the vehicle in real life, I’d suggest reserving final judgement until you have.
They’ve stated on multiple occasions that they’ll be running the line (or already are) 2 shifts per day, 6 days per week. So I think the math should be based on 16 hours per day, 96 hours per week, and ~4800 hours per year, starting relatively soon.
I don’t feel that a vehicle every 15 minutes...
According to this latest, unscientific, small-sample-sized (~700 responses) poll...Colorado has the second-most preorders after California. WA is 4th-ish.
But given the caveats above, I'd say 2-5 are all likely pretty close to each other on numbers of preorders.
LINK TO POLL
You could not pay me to put on tires with foam insulation on my vehicles ever again. Biggest pain I've ever had to deal with tires. Just replaced all 4 on my Volvo at 10k miles, after having to repeatedly have the dealer rebalance and replace them one at a time.
That front door fitment is embarrassing. Can't believe that made it through QC.
Glad to see the paint and interior are excellent.
Not stoked that the sound system is worse than a Tesla's.
Double check with your city/state/utilities provider for incentives as well. I know in Denver the utility company offers a $500 rebate on the purchase of a Juice Box or ChargePoint EVSE (but only those specific chargers). Makes them both significantly cheaper than the Rivian charger.
You can see the lightbars on the front of the ones on the left, except for that last shadow (which I wasn't counting). And there's an additional one behind the white truck on the right that you can see the windshield of, which DaveA missed.
I've deducted some internet points from him for the...