Interesting read! Would have been helpful with my trip to the mountains last weekend!
https://www.thedrive.com/news/rivian-patent-could-solve-one-of-electric-truck-owners-biggest-complaints
Had a weird issue pop up today. My R1S locked itself in my garage (I have unlock at home on). When I left earlier, I noticed for a split second the "no gps" icon was there but disappeared after a reset. Now my pop up garage door open icon pops up randomly while driving all over the place...
The total lease was still lower than my trade, plus I didn't want to put too much down as others mentioned if something ever happened to the truck during the lease, I'm out that big upfront deposit.
I surprisingly got a decent offer from Carmax last night so deciding if Im going that route...
I don't owe anything on my R1S. They are offering me 66k for it. If I put 20k down on a lease, he said Rivian won't write me a check for the 46k difference. Makes zero sense, but as someone else commented he might be very misinformed :confused:
Wow. That makes sense. I need to call and get someone else then. He even verified and emailed me back this:
"Thank you for following up! I double-checked how trading in your vehicle would affect a lease. If you were to trade in your vehicle, only about $20,000 of the trade-in value could be...
Was considering trading my 23 launch edition in for a leased Gen2. Got a decent trade in offer from Rivian and called to verify that they would simply write me a check for the difference after my down payment ( the downpayment is obviously less than my trade offer). They said that Rivian will...