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It's a car. You get in at A, you get out at B. That said, Borealis is cool.

I have also found that elevation pretty much cancels itself out to what flat driving would have been once you get back to net 0.

Dirt roads 25-40mph? Very good range. Not at all comparable to off-roading at 5mph.

Only one of these is an SUV. Although, surprised that they say MY has more, better cargo space than R2.

If you care about heat reduction, get a ceramic tint, don't focus on tint %.

Why do you want to tint your windows?

The fact that all the options are gray makes it a lot funnier I wonder if Henry Ford did something similar

Ok, if you're like the R1T I saw today doing burnouts at local stoplights...

My understanding is that hard acceleration matters a lot less to EV efficiency than for ICE. Top speed obviously matters a lot still but I don't think aggressive acceleration does.

The biggest problem is repairability out beyond 10 years. Companies can make it impossible to repair hardware because of their proprietary software, and then when they stop offering repairs you're SOL. Think of how R1 throws an error code when you replace the 12V battery yourself. Imagine how R1...

Or possibly Centennial? I had a good experience there recently. Nothing but positives about my past experiences at Denver SC.

I have never needed to do anything in advance or set a destination. For me, I just drive and the maps work.

I'm not sure what people are even criticizing here. I've been well out of cell coverage often and maps and navigation have always worked.

Conserve mode is fine. Low ride height (or auto). Or Lowest if you don't mind the bumpiness. Biggest improvement would be sell those tires and get efficient tires, unless you have some reason to keep them. Could get you 30+ more miles of range (very rough guess). Lower battery percentage =...

Thanks for the data, nice post. I do think the tires make the R2 vs R1 apples to oranges. A more equal comparison would be an R1 on the OEM Goodyear Wranglers. Also an "all-terrain" tire that is focused on efficiency. R1 would have quite a bit more range.

And this was already the case with Gen 2 R1 (advertise 410, get ~350 at 70mph). R2 is even worse but Rivian was already marketing based on unrealistic EPA numbers.

First tell us what happened when you tried with the Grenadier.

Well my point is that if you need 300+ miles of highway range, you might have to go up to R1S anyway. Yeah, unfortunately as soon as the battery pack was revealed to be 2/3 the size of your Quad, there was no chance the range would be competitive. Rivian was not very open about this. Good news...

I hope so but my bet would be they don’t because of fear of taking away R1S sales.

Cool. I'm big on the "free market". People should be free to buy gas vehicles in 2026 if they want. But the externalities of pollution and climate change should be priced in. Otherwise it's not really a free market, it's off loading costs to others and our children instead of paying ourselves...