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Also: - no heat pump - flimsy jack - vehicle is only secured by one brake/tire when changing a rear wheel: not good. Front wheels rotate free. Makes it sketchy to change a tire on an incline without bringing chocks. - prone to skidding on ice during regen - no winter tire available in 21” -...

If your fob battery is low, be sure to check the "manufactured date" on the driver's side door sticker of your truck. Just to be sure it hasn't been sitting around for six months or a year in the service center for rework.

Some are more exempt than others, though.

I’ve already thrown mine out and replaced it with aftermarket. What a half baked piece of junk it was.

I did this. You all should as well. Beware, though, there is a hidden deadline:

At one property, I have a charger on a 50A breaker. At another, 60A. 60A helps in rare instances when one forgets to charge and the battery is fairly depleted. Worth it, in my opinion, for the extra piece of mind.

Does the wristband work very poorly for anybody else?

You're not alone. I've had two flats in my R1S in nine months. In my other EV, it's been two flats in two months. Over eleven years, I'm up to 14, maybe 15 flats. Most were completely unrepairable. EVs definitely stress tires and make them much more prone to catching nails than normal cars...

It’s to make other Rivians feel more attractive.

That’s not a fix. That’s a hack. It’s simply making it less likely to occur by dialing down regen. Which is better, but I have to remember to engage snow mode, and I won’t always be able to see ice or snow seconds before I need my brakes to work. A key scenario is coming off the highway...

My theory is that they are battery supply constrained, and it’s more profitable to put their scarce batteries into a new non-Max pack vehicle (well, a fraction of one), rather than upgrade an existing sale. That’s why they talk up LFP batteries and only promise 50K cars per year for the...

It does pretty poorly on regen on ice, though, easily locking up downhill. I hope they fix that in the dual motor version, but I don’t think they can. They need an ABS chip that knows how to regen.

That truck is almost 40 years old. I wonder how well the Rivian will be doing at that point.

Rivians need heat pumps. They need to escape "California car" status and not lose tons of range in the winter, or while adventuring in the mountains, or skiing. This is an adventure car, it needs to work well at low temperatures.

Fast charging from 80% to 100% is currently painfully slow. So, for extended road trips, you really have only 80% of range available; 70% with buffer. Else, you're sitting around in the sun wasting your valuable time, and taking up space at a charger that may have a queue. A big buzz kill on a...

I was told by a Rivian engineer that they were "already designing for 800V" at an event in 2019. That was four years ago. Startups, bless your hearts. Never change!

Rivian can’t track my car when it is driving. Can ElectraFi?

I would perhaps feel differently if Rivian were in actual danger of dying. The more EV manufacturers out there, the more pressure will exist on legislatures to tighten the cap and trade cap. But they are not in any danger of dying and will never be. Funding will exist for EV makers from now...

“Rivian’s second-quarter revenue included $34 million from the sale of regulatory credits.” I am not pleased to read this. This means that the Rivian you and I bought had no net environmental benefit; the purchase just enabled some other automaker to pollute more. You neighbor bought their pig...