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They could, but the stock they just acquired is a side effect of the JV not a direct act VW just recently took. So either they were playing a long game, or they might be considering a purchase separately from acquiring more of Rivian, or they were considering and having somewhat less they need...

Yep, people sue for emotional damages all the time. Generally the bar is very high, frequently you need to prove intent to harm, or that whatever damaged your mental state was untrue. It is very messy, and not likely something you would win for “I don’t like the numbers my truck is showing”...

Ahhh! Ok, so before I deploy this in anger I need to put a 240V load on it, like the Rivian’s mobile charger, and supply 120V from house power to it and see if it sticks with my current “backup” settings where it warns me “Input power limited to 1200W while output can exceed (1800W)” (but I...

That is true for most of the big ass power banks that claim to be solar generators (a term I intensely dislike because they don’t generate anything, and don’t have any solar they are a thing you can use to hook up solar...). However the Bluetti Apex 300 claims (and Bluetti tech support backs it...

Not exactly, they added KeyCard support which does put a usable key on the watch, so you can unlock/drive with the watch (with some effort). Which I assume is a “minimum viable product” sort of Apple Watch “stuff”. In theory the AW should be able to do all the “remote” stuff, open the...

On my iPhone I can send maps addresses to the Rivian (from Apple Maps or Google Maps), can you not do that from Android?

Rivian has definitely routed me to Flo and ChargePoint, and maybe to Blink. The Flo at Ben&Jerry’s, I forget where the ChargePoint was. Blink I might be hallucinating. It is possible it doesn’t route you to low rated chargers, and declines to tell you “that one is crap, don’t go” so partners...

Past winters? Living in san jose or the inland empire has avoided salt issues. Now that I’m in VT though my strategy is “lease”, worked so far...

It feels bland because (almost) every car has it, not because it lacks any visual style or presentation. You don’t like it, and that is fine. RJ thinks Rivian is better off without it, and he runs the company. It isn’t likely his views will change (although Steve Jobs was opposed to bringing...

I had this after a complicating issue that made me extra worried. Additionally my R1S refused to precondition (the button was greyed out with no explanation). I was at a pretty high state of charge. High enough that I didn’t “need” to charge, but I wanted to make sure it would. I did a...

Well to be honest only with the small (aka “standard”) battery. That large and max batteries change slughtly ion voltage as they get lower on power so the battery meter is more or less just “look at the voltage, 3.8V is 0%, 4V is 100%, and 2.9V is 50%, 2.85V is 25%”. So the battery meter on...

Full charge, just the morning of the trip. Full discharge? I was unaware that was a requirement or even a good idea. I’m not sure I have _ever_ run my R1S below 4%.

A discrepancy of 20% seems pretty significant. It was still over 20% when it started complaining about thermal issues. I’m not sure this is the recently disclosed “it doesn’t really know where the battery zeros out” issue, the service center thought it was at first, and then decided it was a...

I have the 2025 R1S Duel Standard. I think it could do your trip (~130 miles @85MPH) without needing a charge. I do summer 300 mile trips with mine at far lower speeds and no recharge, and winter trips of about 120 miles with no recharge (actually a round trip with one “on the return leg”...

...and on that long trip on Friday, maybe “long” is an overstatement, I have aLFP battery and charged to 100% as recommended, and drove to the doctor’s and ended up at a little over 40% (the prediction had been 50%, but we made an unscheduled stop for breakfast, after which it updated the...

...and I tried leaving it plugged in with a “preheat casing for a 15:20 departure” and it just started charging! so I think it ought to work for tomorrows long trip!

So heading home from “the big city” at the end of November we skipped charging because the route planner thought we would get home with like 17% of a charge. Traditionally the has been a pretty good predictor (rarely of by more then 1% or 2%). We stopped for food on the way home (if I had...

Well it isn’t no effort. It’ll probably take someone talented that knows Rivian’s systems a week or two to implement it, and a few weeks of QA time to verify it has no significant bugs. I don’t know what else they might have done in that time, but probably at least one less “big item” in a...

Why do you think supporting CarPlay will make Rivian’s existing system worse? Will once some people can choose to use Apple Maps will Rivian’s navigation system stop working? Or once one can choose to listen to Podcasts using Overcast in CarPlay will Rivian’s native podcast app get worse...

Nope, that product says "Your vehicle must support original wired CarPlay and be a touch screen”. It talks wireless CarPlay to your phone and turns it into wired CarPlay it shoves into the car. All CarPlay from the car’s point of view is a thing that talks to the car and says “please draw...