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Like putting an entire wheelchair into the vehicle THROUGH the door? I'm not sure that's gonna happen
Dark-Fx
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I can measure and take some photos, but it's going to be complicated by having a pretty high load floor because of the battery system in the vehicle being below the floor. I'd say it's probably somewhere around 18-20" off the ground without having the vehicle here to measure.
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Don’t know if these help but maybe you can send them to the vendor.
Edit: In kneel mode the floor is 21 inches from the ground.
Joe schmoe
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What he said. I'd also be happy to take measurements (or even try an iPhone LIDAR 3D scan).
This is a non-trivial engineering exercise though, starting with modifying the door hinges and involving a lot of structural work.
If I were trying to do this, I'd start with one of the companies that has done this before, and put one of their engineers together with an R1S, plus maybe point them at the Munro teardown videos.
Depending on your use case, it might be cheaper to try to talk Rivian into selling you an EDV (which I think would be almost trivial to convert) or one of the other EV vans available.
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I'm from Europe, in two months it's my turn to get a car. So there were circumstances that I need a disabled person to be able to use a car. I have already written many letters to different companies, they refused a lot, someone wrote that it is necessary to conclude a contract with the manufacturer so as not to violate the rights. Someone says that electric cars are forbidden to remake for safety reasons. One company in Europe is ready to consider my requirements, but for this they need to know the live measurements of the car, since the model is new and there is very little information about it. And now we decide to leave the car and do what we need, or better to sell.
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Rivian seems like a terrible choice of vehicle for this project.
With the mods you have planned, something somewhere is going to break, and with 0 access to parts, no knowledge about how anything works, and no access to the computer, it will be impossible to fix. Dead 12v batteries have been nearly unrecoverable problems for people who exported their Rivians outside the USA. And you are going to face problems a lot tougher than a dead battery.
If the company you are hoping to hire can't even look up the dimensions of the door, how are they going to be able to hack the computer to suppress all of the error codes that are going to pop up when they remove the seats or find the wiring diagram to figure out how to put it back together after they have taken everything apart.
Because of the newness and low volume, there is just not anyone outside of Rivian qualified to work on it. For this sort of project you need to start with a mass-produced vehicle with a long history on the market.
With the mods you have planned, something somewhere is going to break, and with 0 access to parts, no knowledge about how anything works, and no access to the computer, it will be impossible to fix. Dead 12v batteries have been nearly unrecoverable problems for people who exported their Rivians outside the USA. And you are going to face problems a lot tougher than a dead battery.
If the company you are hoping to hire can't even look up the dimensions of the door, how are they going to be able to hack the computer to suppress all of the error codes that are going to pop up when they remove the seats or find the wiring diagram to figure out how to put it back together after they have taken everything apart.
Because of the newness and low volume, there is just not anyone outside of Rivian qualified to work on it. For this sort of project you need to start with a mass-produced vehicle with a long history on the market.
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For better or worse, I think this is exactly the right answer. I agree that if your needs are to have this kind of modification you need to go with something more traditional and established where you can actually get support and parts and just... knowledge around how to do this and make sure it works - ultimately for the person with the disability
Donald Stanfield
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I third the other two guys. While I think this would be a cool thing for your father the only people I would bother asking would be Rivian themselves as most likely you would need their support. Who knows, they may be willing to help as this is a humanitarian type project.
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