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RJ has addressed this in several online videos. The development of the tech stack had to remain on its own timeline, supply chain not an insignificant factor - to the point they couldn't delay R2 any longer. Ideal? No - but, given the other recent announcement about next-gen development of...

They did not make it into production.

Welcome to the new world of EV's where your car is now like your phone: "Wait for iPhone 18 or buy 17 now? But I hear 19 will have a shiny new doodad." FOMO with tech is real - and it gets really hard when that tech costs $60K.... If I were you personally, I'd look for a great short term lease...

Yep.

Autonomy is one of those upsell features that get people to pay more for a car... then never use. Example: *"Only 12% of Tesla’s current fleet actively uses the Full Self-Driving (Supervised) package, according to statements made by Tesla’s CFO on a Q3 earnings call. Data from YipitData...

I'd rather be able to select my own rather than have one baked into the cost of the vehicle.

Very cool.

Probably the "biggest" one is no electrochromic glass roof on R2. There's also no air compressor.

Everything I've seen says it does not.

You'll never be legally allowed to be the "person in control" of an HF vehicle and be drunk/DUI-worthy.

Also- demanding pricing from what is essentially still a relatively tiny start-up heavily in CapEx mode to any legacy manufacture with far higher revenue (Subaru's rev was ~32 Billion last year) and global reach is not a logical comparison. Also, in the "what am I missing" category: Subaru...

As has been pointed out multiple times in this thread - whatever the Gen 1 of LIDAR will be is already baked in. This new development of fully vertically integrating in house is a play for Gen 2 or maybe Gen 3. The first-year's R2' LE's NEVER promised they'd have the hardware for LIDAR, just the...

https://riviantrackr.com/news/why-rivians-rap1-chip-is-its-apple-silicon-moment/

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It makes absolute sense. They are driven to make Rivian’s 100% vertically integrated and they have the backing of Amazon to make this happen through their last-mile fleets. Owning most of your supply chain top to bottom can make you more nimble and efficient. After RJ’s comments about how many...

Wow- great investigating you've done there. Very cool. To think that somebody could manage to do that in a repair. Yikes! But doubtful it's something that has every crossed a tech's mind.

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I've seen that -

Many have commented that an R2 in Esker Silver has been largely invisible in all the recent press. I was rewatching Ginny's video from last November. Do we think this is Esker Silver? The video was November of 2025 when the talk was still of all seats folding flat and the nefarious grab handles...

THAT was the primary driver for the decision and has generally been widely lauded.