Dr. Byrd
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A bit lite, but still interesting:
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a33548089/rivian-r1t-electric-pickup-long-way-up-tv/
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That was on March 28, 2019. Rivian was tasked with getting two R1Ts, and the automotive startup also said it could take care of the charging infrastructure. "We're like, well, give us the route, we'll put it in," Gase said. The company put in about 240 Level 2 chargers at roughly 140 locations. The spread was about every 110 miles across 13 different countries. In the end, they didn't use all the stations they built.
The actual Rivians were test vehicles that suddenly had to make a 13,000-mile trip over unknown terrain, sometimes in cold weather. "We didn't have a vehicle in March. We had a vehicle that was coming online two weeks before we were supposed to ship," Gase said. The second R1T had finished running all the software and thermal system checks six hours before it was scheduled to be shipped to South America.
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https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a33548089/rivian-r1t-electric-pickup-long-way-up-tv/
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That was on March 28, 2019. Rivian was tasked with getting two R1Ts, and the automotive startup also said it could take care of the charging infrastructure. "We're like, well, give us the route, we'll put it in," Gase said. The company put in about 240 Level 2 chargers at roughly 140 locations. The spread was about every 110 miles across 13 different countries. In the end, they didn't use all the stations they built.
The actual Rivians were test vehicles that suddenly had to make a 13,000-mile trip over unknown terrain, sometimes in cold weather. "We didn't have a vehicle in March. We had a vehicle that was coming online two weeks before we were supposed to ship," Gase said. The second R1T had finished running all the software and thermal system checks six hours before it was scheduled to be shipped to South America.
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