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Conduit is designed to support cable pulls up to 360 degrees 'worth' of bends without needing an Ell or pull box. So a conduit that drops vertically down the wall of your house, then goes horizontal has 90 degrees of bend. Once that conduit gets to where your point of connection is and goes...

x2 on being a good neighbor and friend. Out where I live we've had days long power outages after storms, usually in the winter. I've powered the house through our generator transfer switch with the R1S inverter for a couple days at a time, and it runs all the refrigerators and lights without...

For me charging is all about amenities and logistics. I hate driving more than a few minutes off the freeway to charge. For some reason lots of DC fast chargers along I-5 are at least 5-10 minutes off the freeway. Any longer than that and I become annoyed. Unless food is involved and I can eat...

I dumped my Ioniq 5 (not N) when the ICCU blew up and left be stranded in a Home Depot parking lot. Early adopter blues. I appreciate the effort Kia/Hyundai are making in the EV market regardless of our strange shifting consumer sentiment, but generally I am much happier with the Rivian...

Chump change to one of these random social media 'influencer' types. They'll make that back in a month from their content. I appreciate one is at a dealer now - they take good photos so we can actually see up close how these look (sorry Rivian but the marketing photos on Rivian.com suck)

If it were me, I'd run my existing wire needed for the L2 charger in one conduit and drop another 1-1/2" (inch and a half) PVC conduit in the same trench for the future pull. By the time you've dug a trench, dropping another conduit in should be pretty cheap. With the empty 1-1/2" PVC conduit...

I've run Hankook trailer tires for many years and they've never given me any trouble. Generally I feel Michelin's are overpriced for what they do.

Battery preconditioning will also cool the battery if it's too warm for optimal charging. The charging logic tries to predict the amount of heat that will be generated in the pack during charging, and either heats or cools the pack to a target temperature that results in the most efficient...

I very much understand the technology, and fully agree LIDAR sensors are generally better suited for automotive self-driving applications compared to vision based systems (supplemented with radar) The thing I struggle to see the point of is why would one wait for it? Is it expected to be...

I don't see any reason for Rivian to increase their build cost by adding this to anything they're not planning on marketing as full autonomous. Hell, I'd love some freaking glove boxes and the charge point in the drivers rear in the R1, but also don't see that ever happening. My opinion -...

Our R1S would overheat during DC fast charing in the summer in the Sacramento area - we weren't towing. Couldn't get it to charge above 60%. The problem is the lithium in the battery is a huge thermal mass, and once it heats up from heavy charge or discharge, the thermal management system in...

I really can't stand Rivian's 'direct to consumer' sales model. Initially I thought it was neat, like ordering a new MacBook - just pick out the one you want and fork over a stack of cash via an app and pick it up when it's ready. But in practice this means lots of vehicles are delivered to...

If it was a plug, change it out for a hardwired connection.... NEMA 14-50 plugs will eventually fail under continuous load.

I think your points are absolutely correct on the operational management at Rivian. Everyone throws a lot of attention at Wassym Bensaid, but to be honest the person "leading from the front" at Rivian should be Javier Varela. How many folks know of him? How many YouTube and podcast interviews...

Something to consider on all EV charging equipment installation - there is a huge difference between intermittent loads (like an electric dryer or a welder) and sustained loads. This is why I always tell folks to NOT install a NEMA 14-50 outlet for their EVSE- always hardwire them. Eventually...

Brilliant post, well organized and brutally truthful. Couldn't agree more on the "both love and hate it" sentiment.

I hope so - it's less about the MSRP on what they sell (I mean, does it matter if it's listed at $45k or $48k, really?) It's more indicative of the operational and infrastructure investments paying themselves off. I suspect the reason Rivian "looses" money on every R1S is because they've got...

No way - I'd actually prefer if they offered a cargo 2-seater version, like Tesla does in Europe. My wife and I never haul people, we haul three dogs. Extra seats for humans means less space for dogs.

I only see a future where LIDAR gets added to vehicles destined for driverless operation - Level 4 as mentioned. Why spend the money on it when camera/radar based systems generally work "good enough" ? So why wait for something that may never come around?

Old school diesels had a mechanical injection pump that you'd time by loosening the bolts on the injection pump and rotating it, with a special timing light that picked up a mark in the harmonic damper and clipped on one of the injector fuel lines, much like a gas engine with a distributor...