The consolation is that driving (in the active, full-engagement sense) on 395 can be one of lifeās great pleasures, and it can be truly appreciated in a Rivian.
Meanwhile, Iāve learned how to embrace longer charges by considering the charging station as a mini-destination. Plug in, find somewhere to have a pee, take the dog for a walk, buy a coffeeā¦ The car is charged by the time I get back to it, and the process has cost me no dead time at all. The...
Nice to chuckle my way through a light-hearted thread rather than reading some rant based on the paranoid assumption that Rivian is out to deceive us with some dastardly conspiracy.
Range was a consideration, both in buying these lightweight rims and in selecting the 33ā diameter tires vs the OEM 34ā tires. (I moved to this setup from 21ā road wheels.) I was expecting some range hit with these softer snow tires. All that said, Iāve never really paid too much attention to...
My stock 21s were running threadbare by the time we returned from our ~6,000-mile road trip from the Left Coast to the South Coast (Houston, Tejas) and anyway I wanted new snow shoes for pottering around in the Sierra Nevada this winter. That was my excuse, anyway, for getting a set of Atomic...
HUD is good in principle. In my experience thoughāI have it in my Audi e-tronāitās less useful than expected because itās almost invisible when driving in polarized sunglasses, which I use for daytime driving.
On the rare occasions when my typical curmudgeonly mode is not fully engaged and I find myself in traffic alongside some hugely noisy vehicle I chuckle a little and tut āsilly boyā to myself. There he is, with engine struggling mightily, while achieving no more than me as I glide silently along...
The reason is paranoia. Iām talking about neighborhoods my family has lived in for 30 and 25 years respectively. They were safe, harmonious, and middle class when we moved in and If anything, theyāve grown safer and become more prosperous in that time. 20-30 years ago the fad was for car alarms...
Let EVs get rid of noise pollution (or at least reduce it greatly).
The next campaign needs to be against light pollution. Why does it seem that everyone is installing these obnoxious exterior lights, activated by the motion of me walking on the other side of the street? I want to see the...
Merry Christmas, all.
My campaign against abbreviations continues, with the admonition that VD is a particularly unfortunate one.
Whatās the cure for VD? Antibiotics. Unless itās herpes.
Whatās the difference between love and herpes? Herpes lasts forever.
As others have said, itās when you lift your butt off the seat. What I do is to crank my seat up as high as possible before my head hits the roof and my knees get stuck under the wheel. That seems to do the trick while youāre backing up, and then you can just hit āRestoreā (seat position) when...
DrBad, good answer re the 12V circuit. My next question was similar to Mathmeās. Get a 120V AC one (designed for a garage) and plug that into the 120V outlet in the Rivian. But can a winch designed for a garage fit on to a trailer hitch adapter and is it suitable for off-road winching...