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Is that silver or gray in the opening shot of the R1T in the NYT piece? In the dim light, it takes on a sage green tone/ambience which is quite nice, and that connects us to the thread of exterior colors. I don't think sage green is in the works, but maybe it should be. The colors we...

Here's a nice NYT article on the future of electric trucks with RJ and Rivian prominently featured in the write-up. As the article underscores, pricing will be key, all the more so in the post-pandemic era. At what price point will enough folks jump in to make electric trucks mainstream? New...

Godawgs, what color is this? Forest brown-smoke metallic?

Along with others, I applaud Rivian's decline of a $1 million grant and tax break for 2019 from Normal, Illinois. We live in extraordinary times with pandemic illnesses and deaths climbing and businesses downsized, shuttered or in exceedingly difficult situations. To Rivian's credit, it has...

Cool. Have you mapped out charging locations and the availability of rapid charging at which stations? If so, can you share the information? I might do a similar road trip, except that I'll take the southern route running toward Pikes Peak and Arches National Park and I'll keep heading west...

I agree. A copper brown would be nice. Volvo has a rich maple brown which is rather dark but nice. In the right light, a deep, dark, rich brown can be quite appealing. But, in dim light, the richness of browns often disappears. I had a copper colored Lexus years ago and liked it a lot. It...

As electruck suggests, my forest green may be a gray, but even so the number of "known" colors are 7: white, gray/sage green, black, red, silver, forest green and RJ blue. So the last color will likely be charcoal, dark blue or brown/beige. Of these, the first two are fairly close to black and...

We've heard from numerous sources there will be 8 exterior colors. In videos and screen grabs, I count 7: RJ Blue, Silver, White, and Forest Green are the ones we've seen before. Sage Green, Black and Red are new, as seen in screen grabs. A dark blue and/or charcoal might be candidates for...

As skyote mentioned earlier, you don't have to try and cram in/on everything. He suggests a rooftop tent or overland camper trailer. Here's an overland camper trailer to carry everything you want, but you can park and forget it while you adventure farther afield with a lightly laden Rivian...

Personally, I don't care for filled-in console spaces. It makes the front feel confined, constricted, more like a fighter cockpit than a versatile, do-anything vehicle. And with Rivian's big, center mounted screen, filling in the console area would only heighten the sense of confinement and...

The Wall Street Journal published an article about Alexandra Ford English, the new board member to Rivian from Ford, that looked to be fairly detailed, but I couldn't read it because I'm not a WSJ subscriber. However, embedded in the article was a half-hour video on the experience of 8 WSJ...

In theory, she has a lot to offer Rivian. The question is how well will it transfer? Ford has 175,000 employees and 65 assembly plants spread around the world. Much of what she knows won't likely fit a startup with 1,000 employees and 1 assembly plant. But Ford did invest $500 million in...

I agree. In #22 above, I was trying to estimate how a general downturn in the auto industry affects Rivian. Because production capacity during the first year or two will not be large - @20,000 vehicles in the first full-year of production - Rivian is probably okay. If demand for R1Ts & R1Ss...

We seem to be in agreement that Ford's cancellation of its Lincoln BEV SUV program doesn't really affect Rivian very much. Rivian gets to keep its $500 million investment from Ford. There's still some sort of relationship between Ford and Rivian, and that might be beneficial to Rivian. Rivian...

Here's what Autoweek, an industry trade journal, has to say about the cancellation of a Lincoln SUV based on the Rivian skateboard. https://www.autoweek.com/news/industry-news/a32316758/ford-lincoln-rivian-ev-suv-canceled/ Autoweek goes into some detail on Ford's financial troubles, but it...

Pherdnut, the Rivians will likely have a self-parking feature. You line up the truck, as you would if you were parallel parking, and let it park itself. For some self-parking capable vehicles, you don't even have to be in the vehicle when it parks itself. You exit, initiate the self-parking...

SK Innovation, one of three S. Korean battery producers, including LG Chem, SDI and SK Innovation, is opening two very large battery plants in Georgia. Good for the USA and likely good for Rivian, even if SK Innovation is not Rivian's initial battery supplier. (It's unclear which battery...

Barry, doesn't it depend on how you define words like adventurous and luxurious? Adventurous might be something as mild as being able to drive fire roads that were unattainable before. Plenty of those around. Or, getting down to a beach where you weren't able to go before or to visit an area...

Barry@OLDEVGUY. Why not the Rivian SUV instead of the Volvo XC90 BEV? (Is it a BEV or plug-in hybrid?) The R1S will be in production, it will out perform the Volvo in every way imaginable, and it will cost about the same. Is there something about the R1S you don't care for?

The good news is a $500 million investment by Ford stays put, and it likely has a multiplier effect: it builds Rivian's resources, especially cash reserves, and benefits its reputation; it gives Rivian more clout with suppliers, some of whom supply Ford; Rivian may gain some production knowhow...