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I've had my Rivian about a year and a half and it doesn't impress me much anymore. Tonight I was impressed. I had to go 22 miles to Walmart for some dog food. It was dark of course. My route went through one of the most notorious deer migration areas in the county. On the way back I saw a deer...

I never thought I would be one of those people. Monday morning I had a doctor appointment and I went out to my R1T and my key fob wouldn't unlock it. The keycard and the phone app wouldn't either. I looked through the window and the screens were dark and there was no electrical activity at all...

Since the R2 will be a 2026 model, will it go on sale sometime next year (in 2025)? Is it a 2026 model?

Everyone has heard the Rivian error sound. It's a descending chord that sounds like the lowest note that a bass guitar can make. Maybe that's what it is. It starts quite high and slides about an octave down. Today I heard it about every five minutes. It was irregular and intermittent. Usually...

I've been using my camp speaker in the house to listen to music. I pair it by bluetooth with my Android phone and listen to various apps. I take back some of the things I said about it. It isn't totally useless. I've noticed that the speaker intercepts phone calls and you can hear them through...

If you look at the Rivian steering wheel, at the bottom there is an upside-down V piece. It has a flat black coating. Mine is peeling. I tried doing a search, but I get everything about "steering" and "wheel" and "peeling". That's about everything. It's very disappointing that it is peeling. My...

It takes nerves of steel to let any car steer past the semis and other traffic on a winding freeway. Especially with the Rivian moving jerkily from one side of the lane to the other. In a separate incident, the Rivian seemed to lose the lane after an especially abrupt dip in the road. I might...

I drive for Uber three days a week. They don't pay very well. My nephew says the "wear and tear" on the truck cancels out whatever I make. The equation is different for an EV. How much "wear and tear" is there exactly? The main item that wears out is the tires. Is Uber a good use for my truck...

My Rivian is in kneel mode all the time so the height changes a lot. One day I was at my nephew's house. I put the truck in an off-road mode with maximum height. I noticed that it took an unusually long time to get to max height. I wanted to look at the bottom of the truck and I didn't drive it...

Something I don't get is that nobody seems to care about the outside temperature. The way I understand it, the thermometer is under one of the mirrors. It's a bad location, because you can't get a reading of the temperature of the air. There is a number on the central display that is supposed to...

I'm thinking of getting my local small-town tire store to rotate the tires on my R1T. Is there anything tricky about lifting the truck? Can they damage it if they do it wrong? Can they figure it out?

I have a 2023 quad-motor R1T with about 17,000 miles. I'm wondering if any forum member has had one or more noisy electric motors that made an excessive amount of noise. What do they sound like if they fail, or is it even something you can hear? How common is motor failure, does it even happen...

I had my Rivian to a service center for a few days for repairs. Mine has the stock Pirelli all-terrain tires. They loaned me another Rivian to drive. I immediately noticed that it sounded different. The whine was a little higher pitched and quieter. Yesterday I got my Rivian R1T back and I was...

Here's a post involving two perennial favorites: service centers and camp speakers. Some weeks ago I was having trouble pairing the speaker to my phone. I made an appointment at the nearest service center in Salt Lake, which is 100 miles away. I talked to a tech there in person and he said the...

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This story will curl your hair. It's one of those "I thought it couldn't happen to me" things. My sister and her husband and I were coming from Moab, Utah, in my Rivian yesterday. We stopped in Green River to charge at an Electrify America charging station. It was 124 miles to Fairview. I was...

My Rivian R1T has four electric motors. I've never seen them. I'd probably be amazed at their size. I've always enjoyed the silence of EV's in general. The noise Rivians make has been described by some as "geary". I thought that was overblown. Yesterday morning the radio was off and at 70 mph...

Recently I've noticed a study done by Edmunds. It rates EV's according to charging speed. The fastest was a Hyundai Ioniq 6 at 868 miles per hour. Rivian R1T was number 37 at 316 miles per hour. That's less than half as fast. That is a significant difference. Why is that? I'd like to point out...

I charge at home mostly. I expect public charging to be a rare occurrence. On Thanksgiving I had to charge at Brigham City, UT, because I didn't have enough range to make it to my destination and back (Logan UT). I used an Electrify America station. I have to admit I don't know what I'm doing. I...

I'm still unclear about the benefits to keeping your Rivian plugged in all the time. Are there any?