I took my R1T for an extended camping trip on family land near the Flat Top Wilderness in Colorado. We had fun putting the truck to use, light off-roading on some private roads/forest roads, rally and drift mode on some dirt backroads, and using the truck as a big battery pack to recharge gear...
Hate to do another one of these threads.
My truck was supposed to be delivered May 6. I completed the 8 steps, and I paid Rivian over $90,000 for the new truck. However, delivery was canceled less than 24 hours to go. The truck was damaged by Rivian during final inspection and it needed to be...
WAKE UP PEOPLE. NEW YEAR, DELIVERY YEAR.
Felt we needed a thread to help pass the time for all those in the April - May 2022 delivery window. “WE AIN’T FIRST, BUT WE AIN’T LAST.” If your Rivian is scheduled for delivery in March or June (or lol 2023) this ain’t the place for you (you’re...
Has anyone thought about placing a second pre-order before vehicles are delivered and demand (presumably) spikes?
I originally configured an LE more as a "wait and see" configuration. I figured I could always opt for the max pack if I did not want the LE. Now, with the way auto supply chains...
Some bullet points from President Biden's proposed Infrastructure Bill being announced today:
$174 Billon investment to compete with China and win the EV market
New consumer point-of-sale rebates and tax incentives for purchasing American-made EVs
Grants to retool U.S. factories to build EVs...
https://www.jeep.com/the-road-ahead.html
Rivian is still ahead of the legacy OEMs in delivering a vehicle to market IMO, but I'm starting to wonder how big of a window they actually have with the F-150 BEV, Hummer, Cybertruck, and potentially a Jeep (with its own adventure charging network)...
I saw that Cox Automotive recently did an online consumer survey of potential truck buyers: https://www.coxautoinc.com/market-insights/consumer-snapshot-electric-pickup-trucks/
Obviously, Cox Automotive is a Rivian investor, and the survey was online and quite small (155 potential truck...