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If you think 100% is excessive you'll faint when you learn the actual margin.

Being in the parts business for almost two decades I agree that, as luxury/dealer pricing goes, this isn't half bad. Go to Mercedes for brake pads for your GLS and you'll pay $472.

Same. I think the OP's aspirational figures are due to the speed. Remember wind resistance is nearly double at 75mph (my cruising speed) vs 55 mph. Efficiency loss for EVs is greatest due to speed, way more than temperature.

I've been screaming that they should do this (all over the forums too, sorry everyone) for months. A+ While I like the transition to NACS we're certainly in the middle of the s-show. Doesn't matter what port your EV has you need an adapter. We're going to have CCS chargers for a decade at least.

Still making my point - I don't think you're suggesting that if Rivian wasn't going to give you one for free you would have walked out of the deal. Ostensibly there were other reasons you purchased the Rivian other than a freebie. You actually did buy an adapter and use it - you're only mad...

You sort of make my point here. The ***MAIN*** selling point WAS NOT that you were going to get a FREE adapter, the actual selling point was that you could use the Tesla network. My point is that by giving them away for free and trying to do the"right thing" Rivian put (some) owners in a...

It stopped me from impulse buying an R1S...if I could get the rewards, the lease rate and my $500 they would have had a sale. All in all though I'm better off so I can't be too mad....

NOPE, they'll be selling about zero cars this month. Just resetting the market. At some point the incentives need to expire or else they aren't incentives they're just lower prices. :cool:

::: Buys a $100,000 vehicle, mad that they didn't get their free $250 item which they weren't promised in the first place ::: THIS, and lots of the comments here, are WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS. The only thing they messed up is trying to be nice. You get zero credit with people by trying...

Two common experinces: My R1T has been an alignment problem child since day 1. They've tried a bunch of times, and I have the printouts. What THE MOST worrying is that the measurements from "AFTER" don't match the measurements from the next "BEFORE"...so the alignment wasn't done right OR the...

I ran into this the other day. Wanted to use the self-referral rewards but still had a $500 deposit pending on an old reservation. Once I applied the $500 the referral was gonzo!

Been hunting the R1S leases. Dramatic increase in cost now. Without knowing the buyout how are you finding the money factor?

Wrong...just, wrong. The is basic accounting assets vs. expenses. You buy a vehicle, it has value, that value depreciates over time, but it has value until it depreciates to nothing. If you feel like learning something take a look at Hertz financial statements - vehicles are assets. Expenses...

Not only does this way over complicate things it really isn't a good application of NPV which is designed to discount future cash flows. We're not calculating the discount rate of a bond here, you're not trying to value future income - you're buying a depreciating asset. Yes money today is...

Well done :-)

I'm not sure if this is intended to be criticism or just an observation. We need more charging everywhere but I'd argue that highways and traffic corridors should be higher priority. The fact that rest stops along big interstates lack reliable multi-stall charging risks stranding EV owners...

What is most frustrating about the suspension noise, which on my R1S I would consider very bad, is the inconsistency of it. Driving around at 10 mph is terrible, but hitting an expansion joint on the highway at highway speed is smooth as silk. Off-road, too, pretty smooth. It's just the...

First, I had this issue and your thread is the first one I found so for this user's experience @JRock thread was helpful. So thank you. As for being attacked as they were - This is an open forum. No of you own it. You can't control what other people ask or post. I think those who can't deal...

Exactly right - this is similar though not as extreme as the "3D" TV fad. I turned off Atmos music on my Apple TVs which are connected to 7.1 or 5.1.2 stereo systems. I was fairly happy with the Rivian audio before this, so hoping there is a way to turn off Atmos within Apple Music.

Atmos music, to my ears, is a big step backwards. I don't doubt the technical mastery of this but there are two very REAL problems with Atmos music when listening not on headphones: 1) I've been listening to non-atmos music my whole life, so songs which I am used to all of a sudden have...