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This is from the Rivian website.I feel like this announcement should have come with some images / video of how the manual version will work. I’m not going to even consider a truck without some sort of cover and I wanted the automatic version. Now that’s out the door but to just describe it and then say oh it might not ship with your vehicle either but you’ll “eventually” get it. Seems like they don’t know what this is gonna be or how it’s gonna work exactly. Maybe they just have a rough prototype.
I understand the financial burden to continue to put a inadequate piece of hardware in the car that will require fixing but they should at least build a path for current order holders to retrofit and their vehicles should they want to.
Yea I got the email. That’s a description I’d really like to see how it works and what it looks like. If they had a ready made prototype they would have shown it. For all we know it’s an idea. On a YouTube video not too long ago a first drive customer asked a rivian employee what the manual version would look like and he said he’s seen a prototype and it’s a foldable version. This is a few months ago. So they’ve obviously scrapped that version and the current one just has a description of how it should work and look like.This is from the Rivian website.
Manual Tonneau Cover
Our manual cover consists of four interlocking panels that slide in the channel of the truck bed. It comes with a bag for easy storage that fits inside the Gear Tunnel.
Right. But following that line of thinking, why bother retrofitting even the 12,000 existing trucks?. It sounds like v2.0 isn’t compatible with the current bed / no-tonneau /manual option (?), so how will it be compatible in a retrofit with current trucks…. Unless the fix for the current trucks and v2.0 are different. And if that is the case, then it seems to me that the retrofit may be dropped in the end.If the new one isn't anywhere near ready, there could be 25k+ future R1T owners over the next year waiting for a retrofit, on top of the existing trucks. WIth the limited service network, I wouldn't be surprised if they are trying to avoid creating an even bigger service mess down the line with tens of thousands of trucks needing fairly substantial service appointments for installation.
Same here.I never wanted the damned power tonneau cover.
Photo believed to be of Rivian designer:Guys Guys, stop complaining for every single thing !!! we all knew this is a brand new vehicle, designed by a 35 year old guy that never designed a car,
Nope, that’s not Agile. With that “methodology”, it’s ok to fail as long as you “fail fast”. 12K units might be ”fast” for Toyota & co.; not so much though for Rivian.Well, what *I* would have expected is that they did enough Quality Control to know that the design was flawed and, yes, NOT deliver them until they were bullet proof.