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Watts / Amps rating for AC Outlet Ports?

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Has Rivian published any expected Wattage / Amperage ratings for the AC outlet ports in the rear of the vehicle?

I am presuming they will be identical for both, but am interested specifically in the R1T.

Will they be able to handle 1500 watts , 2000 watts (ie. will they be on-par with the Yeti Goal Zero), or higher? I want to know how feasible it is to use this as an off-grid emergency solution. It would need at least 1500w output to be useful.
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Someone reported recently that CS had told him that they will be 110V @ 15 A. A bit of a disappointment to people that might want to use them as work trucks but shouldn't be a problem for "adventure". Anyway, 1650 W and evidently there will be 4 of them. I don't know if that means 4 duplex receptacles or 4 simplex and I don't know if this means a total of 4 x 1650 W or 1650 total for all 4. But for sure you will be able to run your refrigerator.
 
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Someone reported recently that CS had told him that they will be 110V @ 15 A. A bit of a disappointment to people that might want to use them as work trucks but shouldn't be a problem for "adventure". Anyway, 1650 W and evidently there will be 4 of them. I don't know if that means 4 duplex receptacles or 4 simplex and I don't know if this means a total of 4 x 1650 W or 1650 total for all 4. But for sure you will be able to run your refrigerator.
Agreed 110v @ 15A is not enough for running real equipment - but then again I would be somewhat worried about the sine wave coming out of this before running expensive power tools from it, the modified wave could wreck some. I doubt they will be using a pure wave... supposedly the Cybertruck is looking at having a 240v outlet option even.
 

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I think we can be 99.99% certain that the inverter(s) will be pure sine as they will actually probably be implemented as buck/down converters/inverters - they will tie to the main battery rather than the 12 V battery. The trucks are chock full of vector space (PWM) inverters and I doubt they would use another technology for these inverters, It's probably cheaper to use the existing components than engineer something separate. I have observed on the Tesla forum that a simple modification to the 11.k kW charger circuit these cars use for Level 2 charging can turn it into a V2H or V2G bidirectional interface.

All speculation, of course. I don't know anything you don't.
 
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The new Ioniq 5 is capable of handling 3.6kW output in a V2L setup. I sure wish Rivian had something similar for charging e-bikes, camping stuff, etc.
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