Rivian dropped their trade in for my 2022 Bronco Raptor with 17k miles roughly 5k in the last two months. Significantly lower than anyone else. Total nonstarter.
We sold our 2022 R1T in 2023. I’ve kept watching them since, and even tried to get my wife into an R1S a few times, but stuck with our Bronco Raptor and Ioniq 5N. Now I’m wondering if I’ll do tri R1T or R2 whenever they open up the builds next month. I am definitely leaning R1T. Have had a...
I think the present SC setup will fall over fast with 50k deliveries this year of a new vehicle. They really need to nail the quality at a level they never have. Buyers of a $50k “downmarket” EV will not have the patience for Rivian’s low quality “we’ll fix it later / post delivery”...
Ionna chargers / stations rock. Fast, clean, and in my experience, have stuff around them. Oh, and cheaper than most.
a few pics from my last road trip. I really like the data they share.
We no longer have our R1T, but did take two road trips over this holiday break in our Ioniq 5N.
This car has a 77kWh battery and gets a measly 230 miles per full charge, or this winter more like 180. That said, road tripping it was awesome. We had fast, reliable charging at Ionna and EA and...
or live in a state with expensive electricity. $38 comes pretty fast when you think about is 110 or so Kw.
I definitely like data a little too much and I do track the cost of all of my vehicles, when I had my R1T it wasn’t that much less expensive than my bronco raptor which gets 15 miles per...
Totally agree. As much as folks say the R1’s are amazing off road, it’s got nothing on this BRaptor. Of course, on road, yeah, that’s a different story. If you don’t have to go off road, or tow a lot, and live on top of an SC, Rivian’s can be amazing… tradeoffs though. Tradeoffs.
One other...
My annual drive costs for my R1T without solar, time of day billing, or any other offset, worked out to about $1,600 for 10k miles. My BRaptor is about $2,500 with maintanence. That comes out in the wash for me. The part that doesn’t is actually having to get gas. Thats a lotta time pumping...
I kept our ice vehicle (Bronco Raptor - never been back to the dealer) and picked up an Ioniq 5 (limited). Later traded the I5 for an I5N (also not been back to the dealer, though only 2,500 miles into this one). If I don’t need to tow or want the tossable sports car-truck, topless fun of the...
My R1T was a distant fifth behind our BRaptor, old air cooled 911, new Ioniq 5N and old Chrysler Pacifica. Great truck, but I found the seats less supportive and bolstered than I wanted and frankly just ok.
So we built a standalone garage a few years ago (yeah, during Covid. 0 out of 10, would not recommend.) and here are some of the things we learned. Lots of great recommendations so far.
The good that we planned for:
- 125amp panel in the garage.
- Cat 6 in the garage, in it's own conduit. Run...