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GM's new EV and battery push is a big deal and its impact on the auto industry, including Rivian, may be considerable. https://electrek.co/2020/03/05/gm-says-its-new-low-cobalt-ev-battery-cell-has-60-more-capacity/ The strategic foundation of any BEV undertaking is batteries. Their size...

I also agree but perhaps a few more factors could be added to yours. The Cox Automotive investment will help with trade-in and maintenance related programs; larger numbers of preorders will affect supplier relations (giving Rivian more leverage) and pricing; as you say, with the Amazon order, a...

Doesn't it seem unlikely Rivian will release crash and safety information anytime soon? As Technoninja and others mentioned earlier, IIHS and NHSTA ratings are released on vehicles in production. Rivian may release some crash and safety test results but they would be internal company data...

That - 2 x 4s - would work well. Probably better than my idea of support blocks.

At the Mill Valley/SF event, I was told by Adam Gase that plywood will fit in the back of the R1T with the tailgate down. There are small wheel well bumps, so if you want a load to ride flat, underneath support pieces would likely have to be added in the back of the bed. In this case, you...

I doubt it was his "BHAG" comment since The Climb was all about hyping Rivian and calling the Rivian vehicles "BHAGs" fit right in. More likely are creative and technical differences of opinion or frequent travels between the West Coast and Mid-West or another "BHAG" offer we don't know about...

11/30/2018 at 10:36 a.m. Reasonably early. Two car review guys, Fred Lambert and Alex on Autos, jumped on board and I did too. If it was good enough for them, a couple of pros, I figured they saved me a lot of research and worry. I reserved a R1T but then started waffling as the R1S is...

An R1T is not quite a bucket list item in my case. I'd much prefer to have one fairly sustainable, highly reliable and fun-to-drive vehicle than the three I currently own. The R1T is a nearly perfect fit for my needs. The only niggle in the back of my brain is: do two RAV4 Primes equal one...

However, OTA upgrades of firmware and software will allow for marginal improvements in performance while battery packs could be replaced as long as battery form factors remained consistent. Presumably, even a solid state battery might possibly be fitted into battery modules. So earlier...

You raise a very interesting issue with respect to replacing battery packs in Rivians a few years down the road. I asked about this online after the Mill Valley event in California and received an answer saying older batteries would be repurposed but nothing about replacing older packs with new...

Auto makers can't be good at everything and it's often a mistake to be too vertically integrated. Tesla is an exception in this regard and it's not generally considered advantageous for Tesla to being doing everything in-house. For a relative new comer like Rivian, does it make sense to do...

Let's keep it civil, inquisitive and professional. There's a lot to learn and good information is often hard to come by. Let's do what we can to keep moving forward.