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I drive in Moderate primarily anyways. I really only used "soft" in Low to compensate. Moderate in Sport Mode did feel a smidge tighter than it did yesterday though, so I wonder if they also tweaked the drive modes. I didn't notice a huge difference in dampening, but there seemed to be less roll...

The HEB curbside people always try to slam my frunk closed anyways so I don't see the manual close being all that inconvenient.

Sport Mode FTW! It drives a lot like AP in the QM, which is fine with me because that's what I spent all of my time in anyways. Definitely a huge upgrade in driving experience over AP for the DM.

Similar thing happened to me. I saw in the app that an update was available without getting a notification last night, updated it, and then this morning woke up to a notification that an update was ready.

Probably just targeting the market for tour vehicles at Jurassic Park. Last I saw the Explorers that they had been using were in need of replacement.

A 35 minute difference in a day of driving for something I do maybe every 6 months if that just isn't going to be a major buying consideration for me. It just doesn't move the needle. If charging time on road trips is a significant consideration for me, I'm not buying an EV period, because the...

I think the issue that they will start running into with R1 is how complex a vehicle it is to manufacture at low volumes when R2/3 begin to cannibalize sales. R2 is very optimized for manufacturing efficiency and cost. R1 is very not optimized for those things and you'd effectively have to...

Said it's a design failure.

How much of that is because there was no legitimate competition for the Model Y for most of its existence? You can overcome looks if it is the only real option in its class? That's not the case in 2026.

You missed the fact that the iX3 is ass ugly and a shocking number of people care what their vehicle looks like.

I don't think it's quite a 1:1 situation re: X and R1S. Looking at this year as an example, I think there's still a market to sell 20-20k R1 S annually. Maybe it's less but I highly doubt the majority of the R1 sales will be commercial sales of the T

62-67k total translates to probably 25-30k R2 for 2026.

Even more important as a 99%er is the ability to get a car seat into the back seat. In both the R1T and S I can only put a rear facing seat behind the passenger in the second row. It would be nice to have some flexibility with that.

I haven't seen any mention of ventilated seats yet, only heating. IMO not having them at least as an option would be a big miss. Even as a mid-market vehicle that's a great feature. If Honda can put it into our minivan, Rivian can add it to the R2.

I've tried to figure this out as well, and based on the numbers I looked at it seems like R2 driver experience will be similar to R1 in "Low"

Big takeaways for me so far: 2k lbs less than R1, what I expected. Should help a ton off road. Rear biased single motor driving, hell yeah. 3.6 to 60 seems a tad slow considering it's got the same power as R1 non performance at 2/3 of the weight. Smoother drive than R1, even Gen2 is a positive.

Happy Embargo Day everyone!

The hotel thing would make road trips much easier. My solution is for hotels to add 220v plugs (as opposed to chargers) that are in reserved spots that you can add to your room for an upcharge. I'd easily pay $10-25 a night to have a spot where I'm guaranteed to get 7.5 kw overnight.

Porsche has the bandwidth to market to niche enthusiast groups. Also, no single vehicle that Porche has launched since about 1938 has been "make or break" for the brand. If I'm Rivian, I love the idea of a superficial review to 20 million subscribers.

No surprise there. OutofSpec is a niche outlet. Would you want to give them a platform to rain on your parade for 45 minutes to their 75k subscribers because they think it doesn't hold peak charge long enough? Probably not when you can get MKBHD to tell his 20 million subscribers how innovative...