Rhidan
Well-Known Member
I believe they are not doing the 180 and 135 battery packs anymore as they mentioned somewhere they are not going to need that size to achieve the 300 and 400 range. I could be wrong too
They have stopped identifying the packs as 135kWh and 180kWh. My guess is that it has more to do with the switch in the industry to reporting "useable battery capacity" rather than a change to the actual number of batteries Rivian is using.I thought the skateboards were modular and used 15kWh modules? So unless the mileage estimates were sufficiently high that they could remove an entire 15kWh module, then I doubt they'll change the pack size.
For example, Ford advertises the Mach E extended battery "useable capacity" as 88kWh, when we know the physical battery in the vehicle is 98kWh. Advertising the vehicle based on the "useable capacity" better describes the vehicle efficiency (or makes the efficiency look better on paper).
On the other hand, Tesla doesn't even advertise battery size for its vehicles. Rivian may have just decided not to use kWh figures and would rather advertise vehicles based on estimated range in miles.
I don't think we've heard any evidence that there has been a change to the pack size.
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