A week away from our 1-year anniversary with nearly 15K miles. We had an issue with the cellular module at about month 6 but it was replaced and has been fine ever since. It's my wife's primary vehicle but I get to drive it on weekends. We both love it and have no regrets at all. It's a great car.
Listen to Unsung. Tires are arguably the most important safety device on your vehicle. I'm sure Indonesia manufactures quality products but I haven't heard much about their tire industry and wouldn't want to be a pioneer.
If I kept my cars forever then maybe, but I either lease or trade-in within a few years so I'd rather not throw a couple thousand miles on it - and in the case of the Rivian - eat into life expectancy of the tires.
We've always rented vehicles for our road trips. Just doesn't make sense to put all that wear on our primary vehicle and it's a lot easier to deal with unexpected mishaps.
I don't know about you, but I've been avoiding answering the doorbell and phone since last Thursday because I'm concerned that someone will be coming to forcibly remove my bragging rights. I'm typing this from the basement with e lights off.
The more I think about the range extender, the more problematic it seems. It's physically intrusive, eating up it's "best-in-class" bed space, likely weighs 700+ pounds (so like a passenger plane you need extra fuel to account for carrying extra fuel - or in this case, 4 permanent passengers)...
Obviously has appeal for some but zero for most. I have a GENERAC generator at one home and I can count the power outages I've experienced at my primary home in the last decade on one hand after experiencing a firecracker mishap. Would not influence my purchase one iota.
The complexity of dealing with stainless panels ain't cheap by comparison. And assuming your $500 million is accurate, every factory process is expensive until you consider how the cost is spread across all manufactured vehicles.
Is that supposed to be a compelling argument? Next time I run any of my vehicles into a free-standing refrigerator while in reverse and incur substantial damage I'll be able to effectively judge the miracle that is the Cybertruck.