Here’s a brief article about building smaller vehicles for China and Europe—certainly forward thinking for the company, though I would prefer to get my R1S ASAP! (Preferably with > 300 mile range...)
Smaller vehicles in store
Rivian CEO eyes smaller electric vehicles for China, Europe...
Going back to the earlier threads with pics from the Mill Valley event, there are some ”Launch Edition“ badges in various places—the backs of the front seats, the side pockets, and just above the “Rivian” on the front passenger dashboard.
Maybe these carry through to production, though you...
Yeah, I get it. I was all set to order a 5 seat R1S with the larger battery pack, but everything has fairly quickly changed over the past week. Seems like they could’ve made an announcement before now.
Not a big gripe, but all the videos, website information, interviews etc. always used the...
Received mine a little past noon mountain time. Played around with it a little but not too many options for the R1S.
I’ll have to check it out again after work.
I just wonder if they felt they would sell a lot more R1S models with the larger battery AND the 7 seat configuration? They had difficulty making that work and rather than release the 5 seater only (as promised), they are holding out to make it work for a 5/7 configuration.
Frustrating...
Just got the email confirming that I’ll get another email tomorrow to unlock the configurator.
I’m really interested to see what we’ll be able to learn about the larger battery pack pricing and availability, if anything, for the R1S. It will be tough to choose between what has been announced...
I’m in the same boat. I will need a car next summer when my daughter comes back from college and takes her car with her. I was planning for the R1S 400+ mile battery and 5 seats and had budgeted for this. I was also planning for this to be available sometime in the fall of 2021. Now, it...
As speculated, looks like Rivian will be selling a home charging station as part of the car purchasing process.
From the website:
“At home, you can purchase and install our Rivian wall-mounted charging station, capable of delivering roughly 25 miles of range per hour. We can take care of...