Search results

Or simply destroy confidence in gasoline stations ubiquity. Either by price, quality or legislative manipulation. Any or all of these metrics can dissolve consumer confidence in fossil fuel availability. If the price goes above a consumer pain metric, say. $7/gal or too many truths about gas...

And Rivian gets to subsidize certain aspects of their SDV architecture through the JV. What I'd like to know is: - What/if any does Rivian get from VW through the JV agreement? - Do they, for instance, get volume discounts from VW vendors? Think batteries, motors, robotic assembly...

Vidya did mention 10x over spec on needed compute. She also mentions that CPU and memory get consumed quickly so that will be an interesting set of resources for her team to manage. My question is lifecycle - How many years does her team expect to support each generational platform before...

YouTube Oct 15, 2024 Vidya Rajagopalan, Senior Vice President of Electrical Hardware Engineering at Rivian. Vidya joins host John Heinlein, Ph.D., Chief Marketing Officer from Sonatus to discuss the electrical and software architecture for Rivian vehicles ranging from the R1, the R1 second...

Thank you for doing RivianRoamer.com. Throughly enjoyed the podcast and how your caring for your website brand and the Rivian community.

Rivianroamer.com has an API where if you register, it will let you know when software updates are available for your vehicle. It allows non Connect+ and R1 without WIFI to be aware updates are available. Free service. Heard it on Rivian Rundown podcast. New feature.

You just don’t know that you are a 2nd class user. Nor that Connect.+ subscribers are getting theirs ahead of any other class. And even if that were true, the easiest answer is to subscribe for those present months and then lapse. Your time to write this flame cost you more than the monthly...

New Rocket Money Commercial

Living in large supply chain environments has been my career for decades. Supply Chain diversity is the opposite of cost control. Also remember that this is their first motor build. Bosch has been doing the component build/plan until the Enduro came online. It appears that only so much...

Living in Bloomington/Normal, IL - There were several thousand R1S/R1T Gen1 being stored on the other side of town when the main Rivian storage lot filled up, because of backordered parts. As vehicles came off the assembly line, there were drivers shuttling vehicles to/from the overflow lot...

Today is Triple Witching Day in the Stock Market. Reindexing of funds happens 4x per year. Rivian was likely caught in the same net as other big movers. "can be known to trigger sharp price movements as traders close out or extend existing positions."...

I'm not worried about the range as of yet. Two thoughts on this. Test vehicle that is not a production model (yet) and software defined vehicle where Rivian will get some mileage per Kwh back up. They don't want to sell a +$120k vehicle with less than 300mile range either.

@stanseling If you are asking about beginner trails near SLSD, there are many. Most people don't want sandy single-track. There are some beginner trails right out of SL area. There is also a state forest north of SLSD that is some of the best tunnel tree south of Petoskey. Also, east of...

No one seems to have asked what the efficiency of a PHEV when in pure electric mode is. I'll let you know that it starts at about 700wh per mile and after 160k of hard EV-first battery use, it drops to about 1.2kwhr per mile. Also, most people won't tell you this but the EV motor in a PHEV is...

Most may remember a huge rate drop and refund during COVID bcuz our state Insurance Commissioners mandated to all insurance carriers that COVID was reducing drive miles, rates needed to correlate. Then Rivian gets going on R1 deliveries. Advantage new Rivian owners! Insurance Actuaries digest...

I see what you did there *flame* bait.

@Jonger1150 Just finishing installation of a 50A on our cottage just off SLSD. Nice to have one as the nearest ChargePoint in Hart is a bit far for the 20-30A it is sharing between two stations.

When driving by Normal last night, there were significant numbers of EDVs sitting on the lot. Not as many as June when the main lot and a annex lot nearby full-up with Gen1s awaiting parts but at least a hundred EDVs both AMZN and white-box versions.

One more story like this is better than ten more negative posts about AA/CP or Connect+

@KW_88_SS, Thank you for the reply. As a conclusion to this post line, we can agree that smart phones (iOS/Android) use different GPS receiver chips than autos like Rivian. Thus CarPlay and Android Auto use different GPS location fixes, likely more accurate due to using extensive GPS signals...