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Being an agent for change after you die is tricky business. On the one had, funding say, scholarships for disadvantaged youth, who perhaps resemble some aspect of your own life can be a noble and lasting legacy. On the other hand, society and the challenges facing future generations will be...

I agree with pretty much everything posted so far, I would add: The elimination of the $7500 incentive pulled 2nd Q sales forward, so a dramatic decrease in 3rd and 4th Q is was predicted and unsurprising; EV sales will continue to grow, albeit at a slower pace. Projections based on reading...

Two general maxims: never buy off the spec sheet, never buy 1st Generation. Of course, rules are ment to be broken. Another maximum for auto purchases is "never buy new" because of the depreciation hit; and from a purely financial perspective, it always makes more sense to buy gently used...

Where I live, I have had a handful of "What kind of truck is that?" Rivian. "Who makes it?" Rivian. "Never heard of them, are they American?" Two people have heard of Rivian and asked me how I liked it. I am not sure people around here know enough about Rivian to know how much they cost, but...

Then again, self-leveling is superfluous when parked on level ground, of course ;)

As studies and accident investigations have shown, and as I have now come to agree from my own driving experience, physical controls do indeed beat screen controls for certain functions in both ease of use, and critically, attention time demanded of the driver to activate or change functions. I...

Likewise, it's New Year's eve, 21:30hrs, EST, and still waiting on 2025.46 so it's going to be 2026 for me. I got the Halloween update like a day or two before Halloween, and so wasn't really able to show off the holiday effects to friends at the party the weekend before :( but oh well...

In defense of the OP: 1) He's not wrong to point out that the larger (hopefully) mass market for the R2 will likely have less patience with software bugs. True, Rivian may have less buggy software and less serious bugs than other brands, Tesla notwithstanding, but owner dissatisfaction with...

I purchased a "like new" Tesla Wall Connector (the universal model) from eBay and saved quite a few bucks. It works fine, the only hiccup was contacting Tesla to "re-register" the charger to a new owner -- a security feature so if someone steals your charger, it won't work for them. Now, what...

I hate to report, but it's also entirely predictable and foreseeable that engineers, people with documented systematic personalities, find it incredulous that anyone would approach a system in any other way. I can't tell you how often engineers are dumbstruck when they witness test subjects...

Many of us are aware of the limitations of UHF, and some of us are skeptical enough of how engineers design stuff to RTFM before engaging such a system and even then... But what is actually crazy IMHO is that companies are seriously planning to deploy these so-called autonomous systems in a...

It’s possible that you are right, however, I suspect there may be a price bump when the Lidar version comes out. Rivian has long advertised the 45K price point for the R2, but inflation keeps inflating. So I would not be at all surprised if the first batch meet that advertised price point, but...

Actually, it is precisely because Rivian aspires to be a software company in the automotive sector that there could be substantial upside to partnering with Apple on some limited partnerships, assuming Apple is interested. Apple has deep pockets and spent who knows how many billions on a little...

Always wondered what Monty was like when contract negotiation time came up.

I understand RJ's wanting complete control of the stack, he, like Steve Jobs was, is a control freak. It's true that Jobs wanted to retain complete and utter control of the iPhone app environment, but to his credit and Apple's immense benefit, he changed his mind and allowed third-party...

Wasn't it the villainous Joker who said "If your good at something , never do it for free?"

Man, I miss the era when America, when faced with a challenge, rolled up it's sleeves and went to work innovating -- the WPA, the TVA, the Manhattan Project, the Apollo Program...all of these were government-led enterprises when we had real leadership who could clearly explain the problems and...

I'm not going to upgrade until they find some way to add more cupholders. Priorities, ppl!

I might get it later when I am too old and feeble to drive myself, and if it was more autonomous -- not stopping at stop signs and traffic lights is a WTF feature. And my R1T lacks Lidar, so that's a blind spot. And paying in full now means taking the risk that Rivian will still be in business...

Pretty much agree with everything you wrote, buddy, but I'm not quite as angry, not quite. Like, I'm still miffed at Adobe since they went all subscription in what, 2011? (I still keep an old mac running the perfectly good software I purchased in 2005) Yeah, I'm old and semi-retired and...