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Actually something like this does exist today in terms of discounted plans. Some grocery stores such as Kroger or Safeway have a discounted fuel program where you earn discounts based on your grocery purchases, such as 10 cents or more off per gallon. They limit you to how many gallons you can...

Maybe because of this. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-rehires-supercharger-workers-weeks-160017064.html

Fresh of the presses, guess firing the entire team didn't work so well. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-rehires-supercharger-workers-weeks-160017064.html

We have 2 chargers for 2 EV's. The reason is that my wife drives a Mini Cooper SE and she has to plug in every night as she goes through about 50% of her range daily on her commute to the office and back. I plug my Rivian in about once or twice a week, but both generally at similar times in the...

Good driving, but expensive Turbo is lightning quick, the 4 not so much.

Call me old school, I don't trust the camera when it comes to adding curb rash to my wheels. I want to actually see how close I am. EDIT: I am saying this after I read all the reports that Tesla's self parking (auto parking) causes all sort of curb rash damage on the wheel. So cameras are not...

I just want a tilting down passenger mirror when backing up, so I can see the curb. Right now pushing the touch screen a couple of times, followed by the scroll wheel is not very efficient.

It isn't just more convenient for you parking at home, it is for street parking in general. One of these days, we will have chargers on light poles and you simply plug in there. If you have to drag the cable to the other side, it will probably be too short.

As long as they don't bring Elon's attitude and behavior with them. Afterall, they might have been indoctrinated.

Rivian is giving each customer 1 adapter, they will probably stop giving them out once they transition the charging port from CCS1 to NACS. Please correct me if I am wrong here.

I would hope that they switch the port to NACS as a cost cutting measure. Not perhaps for the actual savings of a NACS vs CCS1 port, but that way they don't have to ship out adapters at $200 (each or whatever they are paying for them). One way to simplify this, but yes, they would now have to...

Based on that number since my VIN is a 2022 in the 14k range, it would take 3+ months for me to get one (14 weeks). Yikes, by that time summer road trip season will be over. I hope it is faster than that.

Yes, but much less of it. A lot of heating will come from the motors and battery cooling requirement. Instead of 10kW of resistance heating, maybe they will only do 2kW (I have no idea on the actual numbers), but this will allow them to use much small gauge wiring, relays, heating elements, etc.

It might actually just be part of the cost cutting. The vehicle already comes with AC, so to move from AC to HP, all you need is basically a reversing valve as that is what allows an AC until to run "backwards". They could then eliminate a lot of the resistance heat, wiring, etc and save some...

I used the Cerakote last time around and after 2 months or so, it is no longer as nice looking than when I first applied it. I used about 4-5 wipes to do the entire truck, are those of you who swear by it using more than that or less? Just curious if I didn't apply enough product to the trim.

Many of us don't qualify for the EV tax credit during a purchase, but can use the leasing loophole and buy out the lease. You CANNOT do this with Tesla as they don't allow lease buyout. Not sure why, but that probably reduces the amount of purchasers that make too much for a buy credit, but...

Don't forget HDTV antennas, no different than a SDTV antenna, but it probably sells better when it is High vs Standard Definition.

I heard it from my third cousins wife's best friend that has a bookie and he said that it will include a turbo boost button like Knight Rider had on his Trans Am. Will put the Dukes of Hazzard river jumping to shame. :like::rock:

Fair enough, but portable ones are a special case as they are designed to run on both 120V (neutral required) and 240V (2 hots). I was making my statements on permanent (non-portable) EVSE's.

Just showed up for me, installing now.