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To me that just sounds like par for the course for the last two years. It's unfortunate, but elicits a bit of a shrug from me.
Rivian has a much bigger battery pack, so improvements to preconditioning might make a bigger difference. Or maybe in Conserve mode the throttle gets remapped from LeadFooter to HyperMiler.
The R2 won’t be shown for quite some time since production is not until 2026 so why show something and get potential reservations too early. I could see a late 2024 reveal and reservation process.
I guess the question there is was it a delay or lost production for the chips. If it was just a delay then they would have the capacity on the lines to make it up but if it is lost production for the chips that is more of an impact.
Frankly I'd be happy with it fixing the vampire drain. If it sits a month it will drain the whole pack with a 0 mile range. Don't have that problem with my Subaru...
Your Subaru also doesn't do anything while it's sitting there. The R1 is phoning home every once in awhile, it's available for you to ping from the app, and it's managing battery temps to protect the battery.
When the availability was planned for 2025 they had indicated that the reveal would be early 2023 for the R2 line. It remains to be seen whether they will keep that timeline in spite of the pushed back availability or push back the reveal as well. I could certainly see them using the reveal of the R2 vehicles as a way to deflect negative press if/when they have to do a recall for something like the half shafts.
My phone also does that without burning 4kWh a day. There's actually no conceivable way I can use said phone (or my laptop even) that will take that much power in a day. 25% of my daily energy use is going to an unused vehicle in my garage, it's asinine.
I would expect they would learn from the experience of showing the R1 in 2018 and only starting manufacturing three years later. If they show to early then the design will look old and there will be less hype in 2026 when it actually goes into production. I agree pricing (and I assume a reservation list) will be 2025, one year ahead of the launch.
Ironic you would name Subaru here...a company literally being sued for vampire battery drain.
