Grueling off road expedition (while towing!) in my R1S

[theonetruestripes]

To be fair, I didn’t have time to capture any trace over the steep bits, or around the boulders. Plus new hazards popped up, I got out of the car for 90 minutes and *boom* a new tree!

In other related news: I pulled a trailer with my new truck for the first time. It was as I expected very easy for the R1S. Other than a little extra noise behind us it was hard to notice. Er, and the cruise control is _weird_ with the trailer on. Ok, I get it, no adaptive cruise, sure, I have to pay attention to where things in front are and such. However it really adjusted the acceleration sharply for being only 1 mile under the target. Also sometimes I would click the speed up or down five or ten times and it would display the new target, but not actually adjust the speed...

I’m guessing this is “normal”, but it seemed really weird, like less refined then the cruise control on a 1990s budget vehicle.

Also after driving around 180 miles the Rivian pegged the weight of that trailer at around 300 lbs (I think that is accurate, it is definitely light enough that tI move it by hand and it doesn’t have a front wheel), and thinks the range estimate matches my normal range (with the gate down which is how I was towing it). It had a much bigger impact on my last EV’s range.

I was thinking of getting a popup trailer, I hope the range impact is similar (I mean it’ll have a bigger profile, so I don’t expect it to be “nothing”, but “very low” would be nice...)

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[Joe Hoffman]

Nice tree.

 

[theonetruestripes]

Nice tree

Pretty crooked though (it was the only bare root of the batch and I had more issues getting it in and lined up, I fixed it sunday so it is way closer to straight).

 

[Joe Hoffman]

I had 100% confidence that a guy that sees the value of a Rivian would not settle for a crooked tree. That was only a matter of time before that got your attention.
But a new picture would be appreciated.

 

[Electrified Outdoors]

Beautiful home! Most folks don't realize how much mature trees can impact property value. They are great for our environment too...win/win

 

[RivianRiverRat]

Pretty crooked though (it was the only bare root of the batch and I had more issues getting it in and lined up, I fixed it sunday so it is way closer to straight).

you're going to have to tell us what kind of trees you've planted

 

[COdogman]

 

[theonetruestripes]

you're going to have to tell us what kind of trees you've planted

One Apple (honeycrisp) to go with the other three from last year (a liberty, and um, two more I can’t rember off the top of my head), and three plums one of which is black ice I can’t remember the other. Inside the R1T I had three rubarb shrubs, two honey berry shrubs, and two…um…some other kind of shrub.

It is my wife’s garden, I mostly provide transport and dig holes. So I don’t remember all the plant names…

 

[RivianRiverRat]

It is my wife’s garden, I mostly provide transport and dig holes. So I don’t remember all the plant names…

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