Interview with Rivian R1T Rebelle Rally driver Emme Hall about her 8 day driving experience

[Babbuino]

Here is the zoom interview with Emme Hall.

 

[bajadahl]

First major nugget of information.... Emme just said the battery was not production and was only 75% performance of the 135kWH battery... this bodes better for the range numbers we were seeing from her article!

 

[ajdelange]

Rivian engineering weighed in on that and published estimates of what they think the range would have been based on the full size battery pack. I believe it was 167 miles. A bit more than half the estimated EPA range which is about what I would expect.

 

[jagged]

Actually, Rivian said she got about 167 miles on a charge and that the 135kwh production battery would get about 220 miles in offroad conditions.

 

[HalcyonRider]

Her comments on the UI were interesting. I wonder how much of that was impacted by the nature of the rally and it being strictly manual/paper navigation.

 

[RivFly]

Good info! Thanks for posting the video.

 

[SpinDoc7]

Emme has a second podcast - The Truck Show Podcast - and gets into more details: seats, glass roof, headlights, suspension, driveability and more!

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aH...EwiByfWhlPfsAhUCV80KHX8rBpYQjrkEegQIBRAH&ep=6