CJdergroße
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- First Name
- Chris
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- Aug 17, 2022
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- Southern California
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- R1T
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You're honestly missing out on an amazing truck over something that, in my opinion is over-reported.Honest review of the highs and lows, including clearly identifying Rivian’s number one fatal flaw: The vampire power drain. (Refer to his earlier videos, it’s really bad)
Wasting power like that is against both the outdoors adventure theme and the carbon reduction theme which is driving the whole EV transition. It’s impractical when parked at a trail head or airport for a week or two. Not to mention the cost of wasted energy.
As he mentions, it will never be fixable because of the big processor architecture, a product of the software culture hubris driving design rather rather than a systems engineering approach. This problem also spills over into features like gear guard, something that consumes huge amounts of energy to do little more than a couple of GoPro cameras that can record hours of video using only tiny batteries.
I really want to like the R1, and there is a lot to like. But I cannot get past this intractable energy waste issue, so I’m probably going to walk as well.
I drive my truck as my DD. It costs me LESS than 1/4 of what a Silverado Trail Boss, or Ram Rebel would cost me, what my "gas" options were. So little bit of electricity drain is NOTHING compared to purchasing overpriced dinojuice.
My 5 day-a-week work commute is ~72mi daily. And I drive a lot outside of work, I go anywhere with friends or family, they want to ride in the Rivian. Got mine in Sept, have 5400 miles on her already.
My opinion...
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