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I do understand his feelings on this. Rivian hyped up the new cooling for a more consistent charging curve and its largely fallen short. Also the large pack is now largely moot since the extra range doesn't add a ton when it charges slower. That and the competition is getting fierce; at this...

We test drove the RST and it seems quite a bit nicer than the LT trim. They now have an LT premium trim too in 2025 thats in between. To be honest, I'd probably get the Chevy at this point, just because its a better truck for truck things than the R1T. We have an R1S, but the R1T bed, cargo...

If Alexa worked perfectly, I would agree. The biggest struggles sans button is finding music, navigating, and HVAC. Both Alexa consistently fails with all of those. If we had controls for temperature via the steering wheel controls, that would be great. But for the love of god, don't remove...

They said starting at $60k. That doesn't give us much or what top trim costs. I will say the offroad chops seem to beat Rivian on paper; lockers, sway bar disconnect, a spare tire on the SUV.

We use two large Rufflands in our R1S so we were also curious. The deptg seems good but the width might be hard. The measure app said just over 3ft between wheel wells which might be tight for two crates side by side.

They're claiming they're better than purpose built offroaders. Its neither here nor there until they made claims like that. The situations being shown are very common; going up a mountain pass that's been washed out, rocks on inclines where you need to take a specific path, etc. All things I've...

This is right in most vehicles especially with low gears and crawl control type systems and comes to the crux of the gen1 quad. "Flooring it" is the only option to add more torque when you're stuck on "slow" obstacles due to the torque vectoring in these. It feels unnatural but it's the only...

I don't think anyone is saying the quad motor is a bad offroader. Far from it. Just that it was a bit over promised in the torque vectoring aspect. If you were to do low speed crawls beside a triple locker land cruiser, the land cruiser would give little fuss, while the Rivian would make the...

They did have the patent for a low range gear box which was one of my hopes to avoid the wheel spin issue. Maybe they figured it out without that though if they're making claims of this magnitude

This isn't the case with gen1 though, the torque vectoring is too slow to handle this in practice. You have to gun it with the Bosch motors, which defeats the whole purpose of trying to have control offroad. Going offroad with 4x4 ICE truck friends with lockers its clear they have more control...

The new Rivian quad motor page has a section where they mention their new "Quad-motors offer substantially better torque control than locking differentials while also being instantly adjustable for on-road performance". As a gen1 owner, I appreciate if they fixed this, however I really would...

I wonder how many of these will make it to gen 1 in the update. It feels like some of the throttle response, regen whiplash, and ride feel could be smoothed out with software

Its ugly as sin, but could get folks to purchase an R1T. I know I've been holding out due to needing a bed cap for our business. Especially if this doesn't decrease range too much

You're right. There's a lot less deals now as they try to hit their margins. Specifically the large pack being smaller is really the biggest "value" loss to me. If it was LFP it would be more reasonable, but NMC with just 20kwh less is kind of a bummer.

I really thought they'd be able to knock down the starting price a bit. LFP is really nice, but $70k is still a hard sell for 270mi range and less options than before. They're really missing the work/business truck market. I'm struggling to see how this will help them move more volume in this...

Suspension and thermal upgrades would have me leaning towards gen 2. However the large pack is now less of a deal. You basically lose 20kwh for the same price, which they state is similar range, but we'll see

hopefully they bring the light themes to non-refreshed vehicles. Everyones been wanting it since the halloween update

This article is frustrating, it doesn't mention you can go into conserve at regular ride height to avoid cambering and uneven wear. It also doesn't mention anything about driver behavior and torque. If you're accelerating a ton from stop with any FWD heavy truck you're going to get front tire...

Those rims are UUUGLY. I bet they're the new base option to try to get people to upgrade. It looks like the removed the small triangle window behind the A-Pillar. Less wind noise issues now

Seems low, but kind of understandable. In a lot of ways the R1T is a mid size truck with full size pricing. We've been looking at a truck for our business and the tiny bed, and lack of cap just won't work for us. We'd definitely go with the Lightning if we were buying right now despite...