Rhidan
Well-Known Member
The issue seems to be that Rivian initially told people that their vehicles could be flat towed, including in the video linked above from May 2019. Then Rivian never issued a correction on this issue, but let CS dribble out incomplete information that made the issue less clear. People were not refusing to believe it. People were properly questioning the sort of incomplete information we have received from Rivian CS, after they made a reservation decision based on a feature Rivian said the vehicles would have.CS has been confirming no flat tow for months. It's just that some folks on the forum refuse to believe it. I'm assuming this latest confirmation doesn't change anything for those people.
However, it is not surprising that a Rivian vehicle or any BEV cannot be flat towed. That would really mess with the ability to use regenerative braking. There's also not a good use case for a BEV that will spend most of its life being pulled behind an RV. You would just be towing a relatively heavy EV with an ICE RV. What's the point of an electric car if you're using gasoline to tow it around most of the time? You are probably better off from an efficiency perspective with purchasing a much lighter ICE vehicle that can be flat towed. Even better yet, look for a camper that can be towed by an electric vehicle.
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