Maine Rivian Club

It's almost time!
My R1S is in now Chelsea and all steps completed except signing docs and payment. Now to schedule an appointment. I might have been able to go get it this weekend but my wife (and ride ) just left with some girl friends for Quebec. It's been a long wait but I suppose I can tough it out for another week. Sad part is my nephew is visiting from the bay area and was hoping to see and drive. Timing is everything I guess

Where are located? Have a friend drop you off in Portland and take the train down. What a great adventure for you and your nephew.

No need. Will pick up next Saturday. My nephew is only in town for a day so I’ll do will spend time outside of a vehicle. He can check out the R1S next time he’s in town

Unfortunately no Rivian RAN chargers in ME yet.

Close to Baxter in Millinocket would be good. I can think of a few others as well…

Millinocket would be ideal.

Hello fellow Rivian owners, Colorado 2023 R1S owner here and our family with 2 young kids and a new puppy is contemplating a move to Maine (Portland metro area - Falmouth / Yarmouth / Scarborough) and would love any feedback about living there with EV (public charging limitations), raising family, education, and general lifestyle change. Thank you.

I moved from Durango, Colorado to Albuquerque, to Cumberland, Maine, and now live in Santa Fe.

EV infrastructure is good. We wanted to raise our kids in Maine, but ended up coming back west for a few reasons:

1) Sunshine. There’s just not enough of it in New England
2) Public Lands. We love to explore and camp off-grid. The options are very limited back east. You can go into the north maine woods, but it’s far from anything, range is an issue, and the bugs are AGGRESSIVE.
3) Weather, in general. Aside from the sunshine issue, the weather is just not super conducive to spending lots of time outside. Spring goes from being cold and raining to hot and humid pretty quickly. You’ll end up with a total of 3-6 weeks of fantastic weather at some point between June and September, but you’ll be fighting the mosquitos and ticks. Fall is nice. Then it starts snowing, and, unlike Colorado, that snow doesn’t melt until April.
4) EV-specific— electricity costs are HIGH. Our power bill averaged $1,300/mo to heat/cool our 3,500sqft house (mini-splits) and charge my R1T and wife’s Model Y

We’re not skiers, but have many friends who are. They all buy condos at Sugarloaf and drive the three hours up there for mediocre (compared to CO) skiing every weekend all winter.

Things we love about Maine:
1) Boating in the summer. We’re keeping our house in Maine to be able to go back for June and July and spend time on the water.
2) The food scene in Portland is great. (although it’s just as good here in Santa Fe)
3) Schools are strong. Yarmouth, Cumberland, Falmouth, Cape Elizabeth all have strong public schools. Our kids went to Waynflete and Breakwater— both were good.

Happy to answer any follow up questions if you have them. For us, though, we’re really happy to be back west.

Thank you for the thoughtful responses. I spent quite a bit of time in Durango on business previously and it’s beautiful down there.

You hit all the major things both pros and cons that we were thinking of. My wife who’s an architect is from upstate New York originally and understands what a slower pace of lifestyle is like and misses it. We were there this summer with kids and all of us absolutely loved it and seeing them be more free accelerated the timeline for us. We are planning to visit in the winter again and want to truly get a feel of living there before we decide.

I am surprised by the high cost of heating and electricity costs. Is it mainly from propane heating as non metro places are typically not connected to city’s natural gas lines or evenly split between gas and electricity? Would love to install solar and battery storage to offset some costs

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@RIVN80210 we liked the idea of a slower pace, as well, but found that was only really the case when we vacationed there, not when we lived there. I think your pace follows you around

Most houses are heated with oil (which is just diesel). There are some newer subdivisions that are optimizing energy use, Solar Way in Yarmouth comes to mind. Electricity works out to about 23c/kwh

in Freeport with a blue r1s, but where are the fast rivian chargers in Maine? Come on rivian! Just went to Acadia and used a waypoint at Indian preserve — what a fiasco! Got woken up at midnight and kicked out and read the riot act for taking advantage of free charging by the guy running the preserve. Why rivian put a charger here is bizarre they don’t even pay for it. Also there was absolutely no indication that this waypoint was part of a nature conservancy park in the rivian app. Incredibly disappointing seeing this is the first time I ventured out of my normal range from home chargers. If you can’t sleep at a level 2 chargers it’s almost useless for us car campers. Will be contacting rivian about this for sure.

Greetings everyone. Just joined the club. I should be taking delivery of our R1S in early September. It sure has been a long wait.

Huzzah! So glad your day is finally coming.

Now that I know its actually going to arrive, who is the go to shop for protection film and tint up here in Maine?

@Paradigm_Shift

@Paradigm_Shift I use Jay at Every Detail in Westbrook. Paint correction then partial PPF then ceramic coating. As you can see, I've beat it up quite a bit since then: https://www.rivianforums.com/forum/threads/camping-gear-and-range-review-in-my-r1t.18313/

https://driveelectricweek.org/event?eventid=3884

If any of you are interested I'll have my R1T in this event on Sep 10th.

Great - I was the only Rivian there last year. I expect a few more of us this year.

I didn't make it there last year as I just got my R1T last Jul. I did show my R1T at the Freeport event and in Portland. I think Will will have his R1S in this event as well.

Just (FINALLY!) got my R1S from the Boston service center today! Black/black max pack. Mid-Coast Maine. I’ve seen a couple others around (a silver R1S and a blue R1T) and can’t wait to start seeing more!

Reserved a R1S green/ocean in September 2021. Received shop access 7/12/23 in response to a friendly chat with customer support. Placed order the next day (they had my original config available but I impulse-decided to switch colors). Heard from my guide on 7/19. A quick 15 days after placing my Rivian Shop order, it’s mine!

I'm in South Portland and organize events in New England for the Northeast Rivian Club. Last month we had an event in York Maine, then one in NYC. This month we had one in Cape Cod, and on July 22nd we are having one in the upper valley on the NH/VT border. Our website is still in process but in the mean time you can check out the Rivian Clubs of America site www.rivianclubs.org

Still awaiting my R1T with max pack up here in Hancock County. Reservation since Jan 2020.

How much was the price difference/did you have to pay more to change it from quad to max pack?

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