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While I never subscribed to Sirius or XM (or SiriusXM) I do see the use in places with terrible cell reception. I've done a few road trips in the Western US where I've lost cellular for hours at a time. If that was something I did in those areas regularly, I'd probably pay for satellite if my...

Interesting. There's nothing in the CARB EV rules that require this. Plenty of other EV makers don't provide these to buyers in CARB states. I wonder what's going on? Maybe they have a "sell CARB credits" deal with a few legacy automakers so they assume they'll sell a lot more vehicles in CARB...

Obviously you know the answer to that.

I'm still waiting for the 2020 Tesla Roadster… 😁 (Hell, if it even takes Slate another 24 months to start shipping their pickup, they'll have founded a vehicle manufacturer from scratch, fully designed, prototyped, and built a production line in less time than the delay from the Roadster's...

My guess would be 2027. Almost certainly no major changes, so no reason to release it before the year itself.

I've been to campgrounds that have campground-provided WiFi (usually paid, usually terrible) where there is zero cellular reception.

Hardwired? No. Bluetooth, yes.

If you want to use the car's cellular connection, yes, you need to pay Rivian for that cellular connection. You can connect to a WiFi hotspot (such as your phone) and/or just use Bluetooth from your phone, using whatever app on your phone you want.

Yeah, I'd love to know what voice features are available without a Connect+. Hopefully it won't be like the current/previous one where if you ask it something it can't do, Alexa complains it doesn't have internet.

All I have to say is that "basic vehicle functionality" had better work better than now on Gen 1 - without needing a Connect+ subscription. I should be able to do basic tasks like change temp, change audio source, even set a navigation destination that doesn't require extra internet lookup (by...

Oooh, you have the big (okay, medium) battery model! I wish they'd have done one more year, with one more battery capacity increase. I likely would have gotten one of those instead of another Model S.

I had the REx model for my wife's range anxiety for her commute, but when I drove it, I never used it.

Uh, Maverick is bigger than Santa Fe. Just barely, but bigger.

Gimme a Maverick/Santa Cruz sized pickup with a ≥4.5' bed that can tow my 4500 pound teardrop ~100 miles between 10-80 recharges, and I will trade my R1T in for it immediately. It can be an "extended cab" (super cramped back seats that are just big enough for the dog) instead of a proper "club...

Some serious pucker-factor there at that angle in such a tall vehicle!

Even in the worst possible conditions, 120 miles should be perfectly doable even on a standard battery. As others have said, if you have the ability to park in a garage and plug in at one end or the other, you'll absolutely be fine with "schedule departure" enabled to use wall power to prepare...

My 2016 would disagree with you. As would tons of public documentation showing that Tesla discontinued it in 2018.

They could work, but it depends on how fast they are. If they’re not fast enough, the Rivian won’t let you use it.

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Basic voice recognition for baked commands requires ridiculously little processing power. My computer in 1999 could do it. Cars in the mid '00s could do it. No, you won't get LLMs, you probably won't even get "complex commands." But "lower temperature to 69 degrees" won't be a problem. "Open...