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  1. Charging with Tesla Mobile Connector Problematic

    I've got this one as well, with J1772, and use it to charge both my R1T and my wife's Polestar 2 regularly with zero issues.
  2. Rivian took over my Tesla Supercharging session and charged me more than double?

    I'm guessing that's a bug and only a bug -I've stopped charging many many times from my vehicle without being surprised by billing through Rivian. I have a Gen 1 so there's no eject button, but I've stopped charging at Superchargers from both my phone app and from the energy tab on the vehicle...
  3. Experience with Polestar?

    Absolutely, I think if we'd paid full price for this new we'd have a vastly different opinion of ours :-D
  4. Experience with Polestar?

    Our 2nd vehicle is a 2021 P2. It's a lot of fun to drive if you want a sporty vehicle - big Brembo brakes, manual Ohlins dampers, very stiff ride. Kyle from OOS has an amusing video where he takes one well above reasonable speeds thru the back country 🤣 Software is Android Automotive natively...
  5. Rivian took over my Tesla Supercharging session and charged me more than double?

    To be clear though, that's not Rivian's price - it's Tesla's price that Rivian is passing thru. That's what non-Tesla owners pay regularly.
  6. Clicking sound when 2023 R1S wakes up

    You should hear the clicking sounds from a Polestar 2 as it wakes up 😅
  7. Dashboard phone mount with MagSafe charger

    I have the older version that connects to the fuse panel, not the ODB2 port, but it's fantastic. Puts the phone at a very comfortable spot for controlling Bluetooth playback, easy to see notifications at a glance, and looks like it belongs from the factory.
  8. Closing the tailgate - heavy & cumbersome

    The tailgate on my 2023 Gen 1 R1T hasn't been any more difficult to close than on either if the F150s I drove previous to this, although it's a bit heavier than the one on my 2001 Tacoma probably (although I'm not sure my memory from that far back is reliable 🤣}
  9. Rivian if you're listening… YouTube Music natively

    Although Google makes one that runs on Android Automotive, which IIRC is what Rivian's UI is built on, so they should be able to port it over pretty easily
  10. Travel Trailer advice needed

    Antimatter is 100% on the nose here. Your personal needs are the biggest variable. My wife and I currently camp in a 15' trailer and are quite happy, from our perspective the Evotrex is frigging massive and I'll be honest I almost choked on the idea that it might be too small 😅 I'd also...
  11. Are Michelin Defender LTX 20” ATs really the right replacement for Pirelli Scorpions?

    And at 30k miles a set, 75k miles would be, in fact, their third set (first change at 30k, second change at 60k).
  12. Considering 1000 mile trip with 4 x 8 UHaul trailer

    Last year I towed a 5x8 Uhaul behind my R1T from Los Angeles to just shy of the Canadian border in WA, about a 1300 mile trip. My average efficiency was somewhere around 1.3-1.5 m/kwh - given how much better that was than when I've towed travel trailers, I'm attributing that to the lower overall...
  13. Anyone considering trading their R1T for an LE R2?

    I'd kill for an R2T, but the lease on my '23 R1T is coming up soon and they're not letting new Ts out the door for $850 a month anymore, so I'm looking pretty seriously at an R2, at least for the next few years. Will probably trade that one back in for whatever truck they're making at the end of...
  14. How Much Power Do You Actually Need to Boondock? Why Most All-Electric RVs Still Come Up Short

    Yeah, I'm not against that on the right trailer, but that's more of a Destination Trailer feature, not a boondocking/EV focused model IMO. Makes no sense here at all.
  15. How Much Power Do You Actually Need to Boondock? Why Most All-Electric RVs Still Come Up Short

    Out of curiosity, why develop and market an RV for EV owners and yet design and build it with a huge flat surface on the back? The drag that produces is basically hanging a giant parachute behind the vehicle, and will do far more to kill range than anything else. The Bowlus and the Pebble both...
  16. Value proposition question - at what distance do you consider your ICE over EV?

    We traded in our last ICE vehicle for a second EV last year, not long after taking a 2600 mile trip in my R1T towing a Uhaul trailer for half of it. That trip went so smoothly, both with and without the trailer, that even my spouse who had dealt with some range anxiety previously decided she was...
  17. Sizing Up Rivian R2 vs. Competitors -- Rivian's Size / Design Comparison Board vs. Other Vehicles

    I think the last column is Porsche Macan, Mercedes GLE, and Jeep Wagoneer
  18. Filler for roof vents when using a rooftop tent?

    The two videos I watched cited more than a 5% loss from the RTT over their bed, and gaining a significant portion of that back by plugging the holes (one with painter's tape, the other with wrap vinyl), but I think I'd want to do my own testing before going crazy of course.
  19. Filler for roof vents when using a rooftop tent?

    Watching some of the R1T drivers on YouTube who have rooftop tents mounted over their beds, who have experimented with filling the roof vents to improve efficiency when driving with a rooftop tent. Since it looks like closing those gaps is really effective, I'm curious if anyone in the community...





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