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So you think Tesla, GM, et. al. are lobbying the government entirely on behalf of Joe Schmoe consumer? That's pretty naive. If Tesla is selling all of the Model Y's they can make at $60k with no tax incentive, you better believe that as soon as the bill passes they will look to increase the...

Ecoflow Delta Pro. A single one can put out 3.6kw, or you can pair two for 7.2kw. 16.4" tall, so will fit under the tonneau. They can be charged in a variety of ways, including via a level 2 EV charger at home or on the road (0-100% in little over an hour) or with solar (free after the cost of...

Agreed, I have the ones from Brain Exploder to match the gun metal 20's. It's the best bang for buck, but assuming you won't detail and durability, powder coating is clear winner over the factory options price wise. In addition to the fact that for $3,500 it's just a dark tint over the normal...

It sure beats the $3,500 it would cost to get the dark factory rims... $750 is a great bargain.

Average day of normal driving will produce the worst efficiency numbers, similar to an ICE vehicle. Short trips from cold starts, conditioning the cabin, getting in/out of vehicle, reconditioning the cabin, etc. all add up to crappy efficiency numbers. You should get better efficiency on long...

The concerns would be around two things: suspension height changes (which are more significant in a Rivian than any other vehicle) and the rear motor disconnect going to Conserve. Oddly, the only time I've heard anything changing to/from Conserve is when I was stopped (or slightly rolling) and...

I'd imagine Rivian can look at logs to confirm that's the case by seeing the hood was released via key fob at X:XX.

So to my earlier point, if you go to the energy screen and look at the Session Summary, you can see how much of that 1.46kwh went to the battery, and assuming it was perfectly backfilling drain, that is what the drain was. You'd also want to confirm the gross number shown there is also the...

No, I'm saying that if the battery loses 1kwh to whatever, then you need 1.1kwh out of the wall to get back to your starting point, because only 1kwh of that 1.1 is making it into the battery. The rest is also lost as part of the process (heat, electronics related to the charging, etc.). So the...

I think you are misunderstanding what the tax incentives actually are, which is a manufacturing subsidy. If they only benefitted consumers, as it appears at face value, OEM's would not be lobbying for them so ferociously. They are doing so because that is money that goes into their pockets to...

I'm referring to the fact there are charging losses (actual charging losses plus additional conditioning and 12v accessory use), so it takes roughly 1.1kwh of energy to replace 1kwh of drain (at least, it's even higher as you go down in charge rate). The poster was reporting what his EVSE was...

I haven't heard from my Guide since before my delivery two months ago. Do people actually stay in contact with theirs after delivery? I only talked to him a couple times before delivery.

I think that's the crux of it though, whether one believes the vampire drain is actually a problem worth solving (through such extreme measures as this, not software tweaking by Rivian). Like I was saying the payback period on that investment is measured in decades and is another thing to...

We didn't, just making the assumption that a panel the size of the roof and tied into the HV battery (if you want that feature) wouldn't be cheap. At least a $1,000 I'd imagine. The panel alone would be several hundred. I haven't bothered to buy a $50 heatshield for the windshield because I'm...

Yep, agree. Overall you seem to be doing really well at about 1.5%/day.

It absolutely uses more energy to charge back up, and isn't the correct way to measure the drain. It's measuring the energy required from the wall to get back to a base state, not what the drain out of the battery was. A simplistic adjustment would be subtracting about 10% from the energy put...

The windshield is nothing but plain glass, which is why it's in such need of ceramic tinting to block heat. I'm guessing others have metallic coatings and such that interfere with these signals.

Why all the fuss over the charging pad? It's something that's not often needed (charged overnight a phone should easily last the day without need for charging), and even when it does, the plug in cord from the cubby is a much better solution anyway (faster, doesn't create nearly as much heat...

You'd pay thousands of dollars just to lower the max temp your cabin would get parked on a hot day? Or to replace vampire drain, which would have a payback period 2-3x the useful life of the vehicle? Seems like while technically a benefit, not a great use of resources. Perhaps down the road...

Yes, definitely regen is better than the alternative (energy turned into heat and worn brakes). Just saying that a full cycle of regen and reaccelerating back to speed is not as efficient as just going a constant speed to get from A to B.