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Major concern, I dont use my sunroof because of eyestrain. I cant imagine it wont be able to be opaque in some way. Looking forward to Monday.
As I have said in other forums, I have the pano roof in my Tesla MS. I live in Florida. When showing people the car for the first time, they get in and look at the dash, they look at the Alcantara on the dash and up the A-pillar. Then as their eyes move up the A-pillar, they finally realize the roof is all glass. There is not an overwhelming sense of light or HEAT in the cabin of the car. But once you see the roof, you can't stop looking. It is beautiful to look out of. ZERO concerns for additional light or heat. Give me the pano roof...
I have never used the term "underdeliver" because as you point out, the 180 kWh pack has only been delayed, not cancelled. What I have expressed is frustration that they are not following through on their repeated statement that they would be offering both the 180 and 135 packs at launch. I also expressed that there is no other electric SUV even close to coming to market so I have no choice but to wait for Rivian or buy another ICE vehicle if it comes down to that.
Thank you for mitigating my concerns. The comments from the Rebelle drivers helped as well.
Presumably you'd stay at the destination for a few hours? Not just go and come back right away? Looks like you'd need about 30 kWh of charge at the destination. At a regular J1772 charger (which there should be tons in that location), you'd get that in about 3 1/2 hours. So, assuming you'd stay a while and recharge while you are there, you should be good?
Fair enough. I can't argue that this leaves leaves some frustration and disappointment. My reaction was to the host of comments here expressing that this news is generally underwhelming and underdelivering, which is not yours. My bad.
TAMU is a great engineering school, truly top tier congrats to you both for considering.
Did you choose the r1t or r1s? I've seen a big difference in the consumption number from abrp.... just wondering which is correctFor those of you questioning our disappointment with the lack of or delay of an R1S 180kWh. Here's a real world example of where the 130kWh R1S doesn't fulfill my needs. My youngest daughter is starting to look at colleges. Texas A&M is a real consideration given their Engineering program. My oldest daughter is a Freshman here in town at UT but has friends at Texas A&M so we have made the trip several times these past few months to take her to stay with a friend for the weekend. It's a short hour and a half drive each way. And I can see us making this trip much more often if my youngest ends up at Texas A&M. These are the results of ABRP with the same settings for the 135kWh and 180kWh R1S. Granted I have not looked at plug share or any other options... this is just ABRP and what it thinks I should do with both vehicles. As you can see with the 130kWh pack I have to drive past the college by roughly 35 miles to charge up before turning around to head home. With the 180kWh pack I can make the round trip without stopping. Saving 74 miles and an hour and a half each time I make the trip. There is just a ton of open space in Texas where the biggest pack is going to be a huge plus. Ok - I'm done complaining... Thanks for letting me vent one last time.
For the record in both cases I chose 120% of speed and 500lbs of cargo/people.
You are absolutely right if my youngest goes there... as far as dropping off the older one it's a complete turn around operation because it is still uncool to have dad driving you around after about 8th grade..... (we just aren't ready to let her take a car that far away). You are absolutely correct though that our use case will change in that the oldest will drive herself sooner or later and the youngest will be a longer stop.
All of my planning has been done with the R1S.
Ah, same here, not sure why the abrp numbers are so far off when the specs are similar. They'll prob vary once we get epa
Everyone also seems to be ignoring the "+" in the 300+ figure.
To each his own... I live in a year-round hot and sunny climate and I can't stand the glass roof in my Tesla. One reason I was looking forward to the Rivian was the hard roof. I would be blown away if there isn't some type of sunshade available for the panoramic glass roof. Major disappointment.
