Recent content by Trinculo73

I've got this one as well, with J1772, and use it to charge both my R1T and my wife's Polestar 2 regularly with zero issues.

I'm guessing that's a bug and only a bug -I've stopped charging many many times from my vehicle without being surprised by billing through Rivian. I have a Gen 1 so there's no eject button, but I've stopped charging at Superchargers from both my phone app and from the energy tab on the vehicle...

Absolutely, I think if we'd paid full price for this new we'd have a vastly different opinion of ours :-D

Our 2nd vehicle is a 2021 P2. It's a lot of fun to drive if you want a sporty vehicle - big Brembo brakes, manual Ohlins dampers, very stiff ride. Kyle from OOS has an amusing video where he takes one well above reasonable speeds thru the back country 🤣 Software is Android Automotive natively...

To be clear though, that's not Rivian's price - it's Tesla's price that Rivian is passing thru. That's what non-Tesla owners pay regularly.

You should hear the clicking sounds from a Polestar 2 as it wakes up 😅

I have the older version that connects to the fuse panel, not the ODB2 port, but it's fantastic. Puts the phone at a very comfortable spot for controlling Bluetooth playback, easy to see notifications at a glance, and looks like it belongs from the factory.

The tailgate on my 2023 Gen 1 R1T hasn't been any more difficult to close than on either if the F150s I drove previous to this, although it's a bit heavier than the one on my 2001 Tacoma probably (although I'm not sure my memory from that far back is reliable 🤣}

Although Google makes one that runs on Android Automotive, which IIRC is what Rivian's UI is built on, so they should be able to port it over pretty easily

Antimatter is 100% on the nose here. Your personal needs are the biggest variable. My wife and I currently camp in a 15' trailer and are quite happy, from our perspective the Evotrex is frigging massive and I'll be honest I almost choked on the idea that it might be too small 😅 I'd also...

And at 30k miles a set, 75k miles would be, in fact, their third set (first change at 30k, second change at 60k).

Last year I towed a 5x8 Uhaul behind my R1T from Los Angeles to just shy of the Canadian border in WA, about a 1300 mile trip. My average efficiency was somewhere around 1.3-1.5 m/kwh - given how much better that was than when I've towed travel trailers, I'm attributing that to the lower overall...

I'd kill for an R2T, but the lease on my '23 R1T is coming up soon and they're not letting new Ts out the door for $850 a month anymore, so I'm looking pretty seriously at an R2, at least for the next few years. Will probably trade that one back in for whatever truck they're making at the end of...

You do if you're burning all your EV range towing a non-aerodynamic trailer 🤣

Yeah, I'm not against that on the right trailer, but that's more of a Destination Trailer feature, not a boondocking/EV focused model IMO. Makes no sense here at all.