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The non-refundable $1,000 to find out your trade value stunt isn't just on a lease. They do that crap on a regular trade in with or without financing.

Exactly. Given my own experience I'm not surprised where they ended up here. The "kill the messenger" attitude will get you broke fast. They know they have to do better. I love my truck.....wouldn't have tolerated nine trips to the dealer for warranty work in 17 months from any other OEM...

I don't think the cabin heat comes from the motors; it is a separate unit that does use kw. I'm just saying in my testing it wasn't material to the efficiency I was seeing. I used to think 70 on the battery temp was ideal, but now I think a wide range of battery temps are fine (meaning won't...

I wish Rivian would give some guidelines on how to achieve the best cold weather efficiency. I've been doing random very unscientific testing the last 3 weeks or so as Central Illinois weather has cooled. I've about wore out trip B?. I expected battery temp to be the key number, but so far it...

For leasing to work you have to be able to live with the mileage limitation, and normally would finance the vehicle. Just a guess, but the rate embedded in the lease will likely be around 8 percent. That can eat up the $7500 tax credit pretty fast if you normally pay cash or put a substantial...

I know it is a lighter vehicle, but does the e-tron have a heat pump? Kyle C loves his, but says they are famously inefficient. 2.2 at 80mph is pretty good in my book.

Assume you live in Iowa; I'm in Western Illinois and can tell you to get used to it. I've tried shutting the heat off and didn't notice much of a difference. During last year's bitter cold period I got 1.1 mi/k. Like others have said 30 minute and less drives in cold weather are really bad. We...

Two years ago the solution to any problem the world had was "EVs". Now EVs are the cause of every evil there is. Wasn't true two years ago and isn't true now. Mostly click bait.

Hard telling what the cause if any specific accident is, but Tesla "autopilot" is a marketing gimmick. Autopilot is nothing more than adaptive cruise control. It comes standard on your Tesla; you buy autopilot plus and then FSD as upgrades. Unbelievably people have started using adaptive cruise...

The plant was expanded since that information, but I'm not going to argue with you Fanboy. Think what you want. The results will be the results.

You can google the Rivian Normal plant production capacity. It comes up 150,000, but that was before they added on. It is 175,000 now. Must be some non-R1 vehicle going to make up the difference. They are having problems pulling labor so likely won't ever maximize the plant capacity. And I'm not...

Yes on the VIN. Working with Alex at the Normal SC has been great really. I'm close to Normal so it isn't a big deal for me. I drop the vehicle; exchange key fobs with Alex and drive off until they call and say it is done.

I really like the truck. 17 months of ownership and 50,500 miles. I have a fairly early VIN (7000s) so I do cut them some slack, but I've had 9 trips to the Normal SC not counting the recalls. They've had it 5 weeks total and always gave me a loaner (that's how I know the higher VINs are...

I live 35 miles from the Normal plant. When fully built out the plant capacity is 175,000. Mitsubishi produced 150,000 in their hey day. It could be they are planning an additional model to be built or the delivery van to take off, but the plant assembly capacity is 175,000.

IMO, this is baloney. My $26,000 Subaru Forester looked great when we picked it up. My Rivian delivery experience was similarly bad. Driver side lower door seal fell off when they opened the door, inside passenger A pillar trip was obviously out, to many panel misalignments to count, and, oh...

I agree they want rid of the Bosch vehicles, but if true why not lower the price on quads instead of this deal? Just add this to the list of things that make no sense. Dropping the price $2-3,000 for first time ev buyers instead (they won't have a home plug) of targeting vehicles want rid of...

You still won't know if they don't tell you. One of the few disadvantages of not having a dealer. I always took my previous vehicles in for a checkup right as warranty expired. They want paid to do the warranty work and I want a vehicle in good shape. Found issues a couple of times.

In my many experiences with loaner vehicles (9 times) I would say VINs above 12,000 (R1T) are much less noisy than VINs below. Unfortunately my VIN is early 7,000s and is noisy. But it is "within spec" according to the Normal SC. To be fair they did replace those front forward windows and helped...

So do I. Low 7000 VIN.

It is stuff like this that scares me. I love my T, but just passed 50,000 miles. Do I keep it past the bumper to bumper warranty? Thought about trading for a new one, but the whole "we can't give you a trade value until you lock in a vehicle" act ticked me off. Plus they never fixed my power bed...