I had my reservations about chucking a bunch of drywall into the back of the R1T but it handled 16 sheets (A little over 1000 lbs (70.4*16=1126.4) like it wasn't even back there. In the event you were worried about that Home Depot run, don't be.
Woke up to go to work, and Rivian was 100% dead in my driveway. I parked it there at 80% SoC on Thursday evening, went out of town for the weekend, back yesterday, went to drive it this morning, and it's completely dead. I considered taking the truck on my trip but thank God I didn't. I'm...
Not much shade around my work parking lot and my R1T was getting like an oven during the day as the sun beat down. I decided to try a sun shade for the front windshield to see if that would help. The cluster that the rearview mirror comes out of is pretty chonky and I had a hard time finding...
Since a lot of what I read in the forums was freaking me out before I took delivery, I figured I'd write up a quick summary of what I have experienced in the first week of Rivian R1T ownership. I am also new to EV ownership.
Before delivery: I ordered the wall charger and it showed up 3 days...