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cooling the cabin uses a heat pump (yep) so it’s not going to be a huge energy suck. targeted heat (seat heaters and heated wheel) get more bang for your watt, your own body heat and the heat of the battery will eventually warm the cabin, the other two just help your extremities not feel so...

Yep. Heat pumps can get crazier, moving 2x the energy input through the system is child’s play, residential systems can get back something like 3.5x the energy you put in if the conditions are correct. Heat pumps should be used far more than they currently are. They’re amazing.

I would be very surprised if Rivian had 0 debt. Debt is typically quite a bit cheaper than equity. The advantages are smaller in the startup phase since you have to pay interest with your investment capital, and you don’t get the tax benefits of debt since you don’t pay taxes anyway. Still, I’m...

Fun fact: GitHub (owned by Microsoft) uses GSuite internally ?

I’m in the same boat, I’m not planning on mine until Jan 2023

That has changed with Google in recent years. GSuite is a full-fledged competitor to Office365. So much so that Word has an in-browser version now.

They don’t. Driver assistance that moves the steering wheel requires electric power steering. Even gas cars are getting away from hydraulic power steering. No belts either. You’ll have brake fluid and coolant, and gear reduction lubrication. I think the first two are the only ones that will...

FWIW those seem to be generically available rates that are not any different than the ones for other brands. Rivian likely has negotiated a revenue share with Chase that hasn’t been announced that will lower the rate.

This is one of those corporate culture things Tesla wants to buck, loyalty and the like. Nobody else wants to. It’s bad. If at least one of the other major automakers doesn’t have a “first rate procurement team” by your standard, I have a hard time believing a startup in Normal IL does.

It’s also how the rest of the world measures fuel consumption, L/100km. MPG is weird ?

that’s only for military personnel stationed in Washington?

Yep, they had a box that was doing DC to DC, they never discussed it specifically but it was clearly a hand-built thing, not an off-the-shelf product. I don’t think the trucks had a 240-volt outlet either, but even that wouldn’t charge them in an hour.

I remember this too.

I love @DucRider’s whole post because it’s so well-informed and is likely exactly right, but I still think that Rivian will never release any of this because most people just don’t care. It over-complicates the product, and as long as they can make good on the charging performance claims they...

Yeah, I think this is industry standard. Ford Expedition has the middle 20% section that slides WAY forward for rear-facing car seats and easy reaching around from the front passenger seat. They call this a 40/20/40, but I would bet the middle seat doesn’t slide separately, so it’s a 60/40, even...

Fun fact: ”etron” means turd in French.

You’re not the only one. I don’t think the lack of specific data on voltage and power and charge rates is a pre-production thing. I think it’s an Apple thing. Apple has never published clock speed or memory specs on its mobile architecture (iPhone/iPad), just the chip name (A13 Bionic in my...

There’s also the insurance, registration, tax, titling, etc. that have to be considered. While I’m sure it’s a huge bit, they aren’t just trying to minimize shipping costs. This is a primary reason why dealers are a thing. ?

Odds are it will have the same air compressor regardless of trim level, since they all have air suspension. I would bet the option is simply the piping with an outlet and a fitting, and some method of controlling the pressure output (a toggle in the app?)

Makes sense. I think I even had this same conversation on a different thread here. I’m tired.