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They have not shown the revamped interior yet, but based on the support website ("Both the second and third row fold nearly flat to about 3°"), you can reasonably conclude the design has changed substantially from the prototype vehicle in the photo. The original design with the 180kWh option...

It's hard to compare apples-to-apples. Is it road miles available to travel at any charging speed? Is it percentage of major routes that are covered? Do you weight your scores based on the charging speeds available? I don't know that either BC or WA have a clear edge over the other on CCS...

This has been extensively researched. Here's a tool for looking at the relative "well to wheel" emissions of vehicles on a state by state basis ("Well-to-wheel emissions include all emissions related to fuel production, processing, distribution, and use"). You'll find that in every state, EVs...

Quote removed. I'm not going to pretend this doesn't happen all the time, but it's probably not a great idea to share your tax evasion plans on a public forum: (RCW 46.16A.030). Unless, of course, you were planning to become a bonafide Oregon resident and pay their income tax?

The pre-production unit is clearly not 3 degrees. It would be reasonable to conclude this was dramatically changed for the production units as the support website content was released more recently than the prototype builds.

I have a friend who just accepted a job with Rivian and starts next week. She said it was made extremely clear that she would be worked very hard over the next 6 months because they would be making the launch date come hell or high water. There's a big difference between the production teams...

Nobody knows, and as much as we'd like to satiate our curiosity with info sooner rather than later, we don't need to know until it's time to enter into a binding purchase agreement. You can come up with various scenarios that fit what they're said publicly. I doubt they would "stockpile"...

I believe in Tesla lingo, "destination charging" means at the destination, not in transit between (that would be supercharging). Browsing the map, they look like they're typically up to 16kW chargers, so most likely Level 2 in not-Tesla lingo. Source: https://www.tesla.com/destination-charging

Does anyone have a source on this part? The forums seem pretty sure of this, but as far as I've been able to tell, people have come to this conclusion reading between the lines. I don't think Rivian has explicitly stated it.

I do. The state needs to get revenue somehow to pay for the things we want and need, and we don't have an income tax. We also have relatively low property taxes (Texas, another no-income tax state has an average property tax levy almost twice as high as ours). Are heavy taxes on vehicles...

The wikipedia article cites this 2016 paper on self-discharge rates of 0.35% to 2.5% per month depending on state of charge. And while I don't have a membership to see the full article you reference, the abstract refers to "<5% of the stored capacity over 1 month." As quoted, 5% is an upper...

I think you first have to ask whether you're going to charge the high voltage pack directly or rely on the onboard Level1/2 charger. If you get access to the pack (can you say "void my warranty"?), you could probably have a custom MPPT charger built to charge with whatever solar energy is...

The self discharge of a lithium-ion chemistry is closer to 0.35% to 2.5% per month depending on state of charge. High states of charge lead to faster self-discharge. The vampire drain from self-discharge will be negligible unless being parked for very long durations. The issues most people have...

I went searching through Denver records but couldn't find Rivian as a party to any transactions. So I asked whether they had registered as an entity yet... https://www.sos.state.co.us/biz/ViewImage.do?masterFileId=20211110592&fileId=20211110592 Coincidentally, they registered in CO as a...

It seems like the big update we all want (photo and video tour inside and out of both vehicles) may finally be in the works with pre-production R1Ses coming off the line. I suspect they've been holding off on that content with the R1T in order to publish for both vehicles at the same time. I...

Hand over hand? Aren't Teslas are so good at self-driving that you don't need any hands on the steering wheel at all. :rolleyes:

I think the discussion is also confusing max regen and one pedal driving. Max regen can be achieved by avoiding using the friction brakes to slow the vehicle -- recapturing as much of the deceleration as possible back into the battery pack. There's no reason this has to be accomplished with one...

What exactly are you expecting? They're not going to churn out thousands or even hundreds of vehicles at this point... They're currently testing pre-production runs. Why build a bunch more vehicles if you might still change what a final vehicles looks like? When the time comes, the vehicles are...

For these purposes, the average joe would be anyone who isn't an accredited investor (prior 2 years of income > $200k individual as an individual or $300k combined with spouse or net worth > $1M excluding the primary residence). There's plenty of debate around whether the policy is effective...

The best bet for getting CarPlay and Android Auto is to make sure that all the people who do youtube reviews show how silly their phone looks on a vent or window mount. And give them feedback. Once you get your vehicles, make sure to explain to them every little thing that you can do with...