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There was an announcement that Rivian had an agreement with an independent repair service. The issue though is not the service manuals but access to the diagnostics. With a software defined car a lot of information is available through diagnostics. Rivian is prioritizing reservations by...

One service center in Phoenix said they have a lot of Rivian owners in Tucson and are looking to put in a service center there. The other service center in Phoenix mentioned El Paso for a future service center. I would not get your hopes up for Albuquerque. New Mexico does not allow direct...

I guess it would depend on the work being done. But for many things I would expect them to check the diagnostics to make sure that any error codes are gone. Since everything is connected (software defined vehicle) they can discover unrelated problems. This is much more thorough than a visual...

I started having problems with my audiobook breaking up. This uses bluetooth to connect to my Rivian. I thought maybe I needed a new phone. Then I received a notice that my 12 volt battery needed to be replaced. After the replacement the audiobook is no longer breaking up.

The charging rate was about half the theoretical charging rate of about 215 kw. IIRC there were 12 stalls and I was the only one charging.

My last charge had a message about the charge rate being lowered because of the charger. This was a Tesla supercharger and I was the only one charging. This is not unusual. I rarely get the full theoretical charging rate although it is slowly getting better. For me it is more important that...

The designer for Rivian mentioned that if you just look at the height measured from the bottom of the car to the top the R2 is not as tall as the Model Y. So it looks taller due to more ground clearance (~3 inches) but the body is actually thinner. Basically they used the boxy shape to provide...

Do I understand that the R2 has a Conserve mode? Was the EPA testing done in All Purpose mode? I do not think Conserve mode would save much on the highway since it probably just disconnects the second motor at a lower speed than All Purpose. The all season tires for the R2 are all the same...

Rivian recently called me to schedule work for a recall that would take 3 - 4 hours. The closest service center is five hours away but requires going over a pass and there are some wildfires that direction. It made more sense to go to the second closest service center and stay awhile. It is...

https://insideevs.com/features/790876/300-mile-range-evs-400-2026/ What the broad market feels they want in range is different than what an individual may feel they need. That does not mean that the individual is wrong; it is just two different things. As RJ Scaringe has repeatedly noted...

RJ Scaringe (in a video talking to Kyle Conner of Out of Spec) stated that their data shows that on average Rivian's are fast charged 10 times a year. So they design their batteries to optimize energy density rather than power (and charging time). Given that data I think that is the correct...

Perhaps I should explain a little for those that are not familiar with AI. AI consists of two parts: training and inference. Training uses a huge amount of data and requires a massive amount of computation that requires GPUs (such as Nvidia makes) to accelerate the computation. The training...

If you go to the following video and specifically to the section about vision versus LIDAR (29:45) RJ Scaringe answers most of these questions. Here are some quotes from RJ Scaringe: "a high performance long range LIDAR you can buy for a couple hundred bucks" "The most expensive part in a...

For those that have a fossil fueled boiler that you use to heat your house there are a couple of easy things you can do to reduce the amount of fuel you use. The first is to reduce the supply temperature coming from your boiler. Almost all have a setting to do this. It should be set just high...

42% of climate change is due to our individual decisions about how we heat our homes, heat our water, dry our clothes, cook our food and fuel our transportation. We cannot stop drilling for oil and gas as long as we continue to use fossil fuels ourselves. It took me 25 years to get to net zero...

The estimates we are getting are from screenshots of the state of charge and the estimated range remaining. These reviewers are spending most of their time in sport mode or all terrain mode. And the vehicles have all terrain tires. So I do not think these estimates mean much. I remember...

Northeastern New Mexico is a strange place. Multiple times I have charged my Tesla Model 3 in Trinidad and added a lot more than the car indicated to get to Santa Fe. Despite this I barely make it to Santa Fe. I chalked it up to Tesla being optimistic but it really seemed to be off way more...

@meshugy: I think all the Gen 1 had the original dampers. My service was in the summer after the switch to the Gen 2 so I would guess they put in the Gen 2 dampers due to the leak in the original ones. It did result in some improvement but I would not replace the original ones just for that...

I bought my R1S in December 2023.

My Gen 1 R1S was in for service for some other matter and he said they noticed the front dampers were leaking so they replaced them under warranty. He said the new ones are better and I should notice an improvement. I did notice an improvement but it did not seem like a huge difference. I do...