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I find it interesting how many people came to R1's from mostly driving cars and sporty ones at that. I too had a 96 Silverado extended cab for a time and mourn the death of the form factor. It does make me wonder how it set people's expectations. I only ever compared the R1T to other trucks.

I don't suppose we can get an idea of what the various repairs were? There should be a warranty associated with any paid service work so I can't see things having to be done multiple times at cost and the drivetrain warranty would not have expired.

People aren't asking for the full online suite to work without the internet. They're asking for it to work in any fashion as opposed to be completely disabled. In my case I've been asking for the system to work as it did when I bought my truck. The thing about data is that it lingers. Your...

This is a great thread. I wish it'd get the attention of people at Rivian. I'd like to say my experiences were different, but they haven't been. My gen 1 has clocked similar 70+ day times in service, though over a far shorter time frame. I bought a high vin gen 1 hoping the kinks had been...

A GPS with a road map database didn't need your precise location shared over the internet in 2004. It also doesn't need to share it over the internet to know where anything else in its database like chargers are either. One used to be able to manually download updates even. The GPS unit knows...

I have seen some discussion that Leviton revised their 14-50 plug in 2024 and made it more heavy duty, or at least made a different kind for EV charging. Looking at home depot this has replaced the type you can see in the picture I posted. It also costs $50 vs the $15-20 for the typical big box...

I'd say $2500 is a good price. Though I'll mention for the people hating on 14-50 plugs that the enemy there is the quality of the plug and the quality of the install. Hardwired chargers also have screw terminals inside that have to be torqued, so do breaker panels and sub-panels. Those can get...

Having done the same thing at Bucees I'd also tell you to use the MB chargers. I was impressed with how many electrons I took on while I was there. I wish all of the brands would just include an option to do a credit card swipe rather than having to fuss with an app. Hopefully they get added...

What I said was the average kW charge rate on the R2 is not as good as the R1. The R1 average charge rate is higher. On this we both agree. That is the extent of what was said in that regard, though. I did not impinge on the dignity of the R2's efficiency, though I put less weight on the C rate...

This is lovely data. I would have much rathered find this earlier. The napkin math wasn't actually too far off on the time over 300kW. As far as the dropoff on the v4 supercharger, it looks to coincide with a 500A amperage limit at 400V and I presume that's the amp limit on the car for 400kW...

Since the BMW iX3 was mentioned, as far as I can tell it has a 108 or 112kWh battery pack (sources vary) that charges 10-80 in 21 minutes vs the R2. So that's sucking down about 78 kWh in 21 minutes in the best case. Average of about 223 kW. Pretty impressive honestly, however that looks to be...

Yeah, the 5k is pretty steep but there's a bit of nuance in there. It's not 5k for a software upgrade and drive modes, it's basically paying back the margin Rivian cut from the price of the dual motors to make the sale more palatable and/or to get under the 80k sticker limits when the EV credits...

Rolling resistance in pneumatic tires mostly depends on the amount of deformation in the contact patch and the amount of slip with applied torque. Pressure matters more than size in that regard. So for a pneumatic tire a narrower width with a higher pressure on the ground for the same load is...

Surprisingly weight doesn't matter a whole lot to efficiency. Yes, it takes more energy to accelerate but about 80% of that is recouped with regen braking and weight means essentially nothing once you're moving at constant speed. So if you're 20% heavier, you're only actually losing about 4%...

On an ICE vehicle it'd more like automatic braking wearing OPD's skin in a way that would be received with blood-curdling horror by ICE drivers even if it's actually a useful safety feature. Hear me out on that one. It's genuinely fail-safe for a vehicle to come to a stop by itself if the driver...

Ironically I arrived at my Rivian for exactly the same reason. I cross-shopped the Lightning pretty hard but was also turned off by the package pricing options and the Rivian was nicer for the same money I would have spent. I never bought into any of the adventure branding, just looking for a...

I feel the pace of updates was creating problems because they were definitely pushing stuff out that wasn't fully baked. I'd personally rather features took a back seat to fixing bugs and doing more testing, because they not only get egg on their face every time they break something (like the...

I feel a bit disappointed to say that if you're feeling spurned by Rivian that things can still get much worse than this. There'll be no enthusiastic welcome to the dark side since nobody who winds up here wants to be after getting psyched up enough to take a risk on a new brand. There was a...

I have the same running boards and the same problem. The service centers use much fatter pucks that won't clear on the sides. I can use my own pucks without issues. I've also been charged $200 to remove them, a job that takes 6 minutes since you don't need to touch the underbody or take the...

Don't knock people too hard for buying big EVs. Even if we discount the fact that high-margin luxury vehicles are the entry point for new/expensive tech and (unfortunately) shaking out teething problems in low volume, every EV displaces an ICE vehicle of the same class. Every hybrid displaces...