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There was a promising post from another new R2 owner recently:

Is this what you're looking for? Someone posted this in their new owner review. Still may be a bug but maybe this is a workaround?

That charger had a NACS cable. Regular people would have just done that. No thinking involved as the rest of us won't run charging experiments with adapters like Tom.

There's plenty of logic and speculation saying otherwise in those many threads that you pointed out. It would take 2 seconds for Rivian to put this in their FAQ on the website. There's zero reason to even be ambiguous unless there's some chance of this happening. It's strange and causing...

He's already in one of those threads and there's no clear statements from Rivian executives about this. If there was, then this thread wouldn't have 5 pages of speculation about it.

Tom had followup comments in a podcast where he said he was using an old Tesla adapter. He thinks that if he had used a new UL2252 certified adapter, it would have been fine. So just get UL2252 certified adapters from a reputable vendor for maximum safety long term. Melted Pin and adapter...

Only the new autonomy compute module 3 and LiDAR are coming later. Everything else including the cameras, dual mode radar and new infotainment computer are available today at launch.

We don't know anything about ACM3/LiDAR availability beyond approximate time frame towards the end of 2026 or beginning of 2027. None of the execs have spilled any details like that.

I would expect growing pains and it being a little bumpy. We can obviously hope for the best that that they scale up service centers and mobile service smoothly, but it's probably unrealistic. I have the same concerns of not being a current Rivian owner and being over an hour away, but I think...

People also told us the R2 backlog was years out and new reservations wouldn't get their cars till 2028 or later. If the order backlog is thinner than they want, Rivian could conceivably keep launch edition going to get these higher dollar sales. Rivian is hungry for R2 sales. Just look at...

What's interesting is that Rivian hasn't outright said RAP1/LiDAR wouldn't overlap with Launch Edition sales. It would be super easy just to say that combo will never be available to keep customer decision making super simple. They're obviously getting flooded with this question directly and...

To get people who really want a RAD Tri Motor R2X into a launch edition instead? :D

But the 20" wheels on the Premium with the same overall diameter Pirellis and same tread pattern gets the same range as the 21". They both get 330 miles range on All Season Pirellis. So why would we say 21" has the best efficiency when 20" Premium wheels can get the same range with same...

There's been pretty limited R2 deliveries as it's super early. The big volume deliveries for R2 will be in the last few months of the year. So it's anyone's guess how smooth this is going to be.

Rivian assistant is garbage for these kind of questions where there is limited info on google. It's just going to make up an answer that's likely wrong instead of saying "I don't know"

But again, people know what they are getting with Gen 2 autonomy and point to point. If Rivian can't get Point to Point done on Gen 2, their autonomy ambitions are dead as that software stack is fundamental to Gen 3. They can't abandon it as it doesn't work that way anymore. This isn't even...

Looks like Rivian is still tweaking their invite system based on reports I'm seeing on social media. Some invite dates are shifting a few weeks to a month. Inputting existing lease information is also helping some people, but even people without leases have been moved up slightly.

So you're saying there is going to be a huge difference on Day 1 between Gen 2 and Gen 3 autonomy and Rivian doesn't know what they are doing? So they're only promising Point to Point at the end of 2026, but you think they will have eyes off at the end of 2026 with Gen 3? If you want advanced...

The funny part is that R2 is actually a decently inconspicuous application for LiDAR on a car. The usual implementation is some sort of bump on the top. Seems ok to me, but I will wait to see a few more pictures from different angles.

Technically the underlying hardware for RAP1/LiDAR won't have any consumer facing capability difference since any differentiating software won't show up for at least a year or more after it comes out. They will just dump the new hardware in on the production line and we shouldn't see any...