Right hand drive

[Airmoses]

I know the R2 and R3 are going to be in Europe and in right hand drive in the UK. But will they bring the R1S to Europe and in right hand drive to the UK. I saw they had a right hand drive R1 as a safari vehicle. So what are the chances?

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[Electrified Outdoors]

Unsure on this. My guess is they will bring the more mass market stuff but most European vehicles are smaller so they may not bring R1.

 

[Airmoses]

They have tons of range rovers and besides the height they are almost identical width and length

 

[mikehmb]

https://electrek.co/2023/06/30/tesl...grabbing-stick-after-forcing-left-hand-drive/

 

[Airmoses]

Thats funny

 

[DuoRivian]

Thats funny

The market would be very small as it would be GBP70k and the UK is poorer than the US as well as five times smaller.

 

[VSG]

Rivian has said from the beginning that they had no plans to bring the R1 to Europe -it was not designed with that market in mind. Rivian has said from the beginning that the R2 was the platform they were going to introduce in Europe.

 

[UnsungZero_OldTimeAdMan]

Have you tried a Ouija board?

 

[tbrockhurst]

I know the R2 and R3 are going to be in Europe and in right hand drive in the UK. But will they bring the R1S to Europe and in right hand drive to the UK. I saw they had a right hand drive R1 as a safari vehicle. So what are the chances?

As a former farmer from Wiltshire, with considerable experience & history of multiple Landrovers & Range Rovers, now living in LA & at the 2 week point of owning an R1S, as much as I empathize with your question, I have to say I’d be worried either driving into a multi-storey in London, or on anything smaller than Regent Street, or Park Lane, (I.e. anywhere other than the main A roads of London) or once off any A road in the Countryside.

Sure on Motorways it’d be ok, but once onto B roads you’d need to grow another pair.

Maybe that’s me being more used to lane & road sizes here in the US & in an R1, but I’d equally be in fear of leaving the Autoroutes to D roads & small rural towns & villages in France.
Yes technically they’re similar to a Land Cruiser, or Range Rover, but for some reason the thought of it in U.K./EU would keep me up at night.
I know there are some people who love driving Dodge Rams in the U.K., (although they always seem to be either in, or driven by people from Essex) but as I remember they were absurdly impractical once off the A12.

am sure in time they’ll be available, but for UK/EU, have to say I think you’d be all round better off with an R2 as a daily driver.
X-ing fingers for you though if that’s your preferred ride, it is a fantastic vehicle, that here in LA, doesn’t seem out of scale & just fits in.
tbrockhurst

 

[Airmoses]

https://electrek.co/2023/06/30/tesl...grabbing-stick-after-forcing-left-hand-drive/

As a former farmer from Wiltshire, with considerable experience & history of multiple Landrovers & Range Rovers, now living in LA & at the 2 week point of owning an R1S, as much as I empathize with your question, I have to say I’d be worried either driving into a multi-storey in London, or on anything smaller than Regent Street, or Park Lane, (I.e. anywhere other than the main A roads of London) or once off any A road in the Countryside.

Sure on Motorways it’d be ok, but once onto B roads you’d need to grow another pair.

Maybe that’s me being more used to lane & road sizes here in the US & in an R1, but I’d equally be in fear of leaving the Autoroutes to D roads & small rural towns & villages in France.
Yes technically they’re similar to a Land Cruiser, or Range Rover, but for some reason the thought of it in U.K./EU would keep me up at night.
I know there are some people who love driving Dodge Rams in the U.K., (although they always seem to be either in, or driven by people from Essex) but as I remember they were absurdly impractical once off the A12.

am sure in time they’ll be available, but for UK/EU, have to say I think you’d be all round better off with an R2 as a daily driver.
X-ing fingers for you though if that’s your preferred ride, it is a fantastic vehicle, that here in LA, doesn’t seem out of scale & just fits in.
tbrockhurst

Not taking my R1S with me when we move next year is stressing me out. You got me with the parking garages im 6’2” and have to duck in some of them. Outside of the garages im not worried. When I was there this past august i saw 2 R1Ts. I wouldnt import my car without the support and they use a different charging plug.

 

[mkg3]

It's probably unlikely, like many have said. The homologation requires lots of modification for EU and for UK - not just right hand drive (RHD).

If we count major countries with RHD:

UK
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
Japan

Maybe more but those are what comes to mind immediately. The unfortunate thing is that not all RHD homologation is not the same so each with its own requirements.

As for Rivian saying they have no intension of R1 in Europe, maybe then and who knows in the future. The EDV is there already and vast majority of EU is LHD so who knows. I've seen plenty of Tahoes/Surbubans in Europe, along with Grand Cherokees so there definitely is a market demand for it, albeit be very small.

It comes down to cost benefit tradeoff for Rivian.

 

[tbrockhurst]

Not taking my R1S with me when we move next year is stressing me out. You got me with the parking garages im 6’2” and have to duck in some of them. Outside of the garages im not worried. When I was there this past august i saw 2 R1Ts. I wouldnt import my car without the support and they use a different charging plug.

I can only imagine how genuinely heart wrenching it would be. Although still very much a newbie, the thought of not having an equivalent back home would have me sobbing in my tea.
But that’s a good point, on the charging plug, as you could probably use a Tesla Nac’s charger as I doubt they’d have changed the design of that for the EU/UK markets, so at least you’d be able to charge, but using the Nac’s/1772 adapter.
But as the post above, my parents in law thought they’d got a great deal buying a left hand drive low mileage Subaru from a US serviceman in the U.K. little realising that trying to get it immatriculated in France where they live was an absolute nightmare & impossible, as it was a US vehicle & did not comply with any EU regulations.
ultimately they had to scrap it, & even then for peanuts as none of the French scrapyards could use any of it’s parts.

 

[Robin]

I can only imagine how genuinely heart wrenching it would be. Although still very much a newbie, the thought of not having an equivalent back home would have me sobbing in my tea.
But that’s a good point, on the charging plug, as you could probably use a Tesla Nac’s charger as I doubt they’d have changed the design of that for the EU/UK markets, so at least you’d be able to charge, but using the Nac’s/1772 adapter.
But as the post above, my parents in law thought they’d got a great deal buying a left hand drive low mileage Subaru from a US serviceman in the U.K. little realising that trying to get it immatriculated in France where they live was an absolute nightmare & impossible, as it was a US vehicle & did not comply with any EU regulations.
ultimately they had to scrap it, & even then for peanuts as none of the French scrapyards could use any of it’s parts.

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[Airmoses]

https://riviantrackr.com/news/r1s-and-r1t-now-available-to-rent-in-the-united-kingdom/

So you‘re saying there’s a chance?

 

[UnsungZero_OldTimeAdMan]

Official policy unchanged. This was a private import (not the first one). Means nothing.

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