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I think you've got it right. In many offroad situations, you'd be lucky to average 20 mph, and that would only be 220 miles in 11 hours.Am I misunderstanding the stats on the page? It says the longest distance between charges was 314 miles and the longest uninterrupted stretch was 11+ hours. Surely you'd be traveling further than 314 miles if you're spending 11 uninterrupted hours driving off-road.
My thinking too. It shows one of the benefits of EVs in offroad situations!I think you've got it right. In many offroad situations, you'd be lucky to average 20 mph, and that would only be 220 miles in 11 hours.
Just fixing this for you...This is awesome!
I have lots of experience through out north African Sahara, Canadian and Alaskan Arctic regions and USA/Mexico desert Southwest. I am completely not impressed by the Rivian video. Proper off road use is slow and safely. The Rivian suspension is demonstrating limited articulation of the the suspension which is exactly what I was worried about with air suspension and CV joint axles shafts. Driving fast and hitting the dirt hard over hills and bumps can be done in any rental car with enough speed. What I like to see is slow over difficult terrain with good articulation. I think what is happening here is the engineers really do not have extensive off road experience. I don't blame them as the company is not located in an area of difficult terrain.
To be fair to them though, part of what they want to test is the limits of the vehicle, and that includes potentially breaking it. I have no off-road experience, but understand what you’re saying. This isn’t your standard off-road jaunt though and is about testing the vehicle, not about getting safety from A to B.I have lots of experience through out north African Sahara, Canadian and Alaskan Arctic regions and USA/Mexico desert Southwest. I am completely not impressed by the Rivian video. Proper off road use is slow and safely. The Rivian suspension is demonstrating limited articulation of the the suspension which is exactly what I was worried about with air suspension and CV joint axles shafts. Driving fast and hitting the dirt hard over hills and bumps can be done in any rental car with enough speed. What I like to see is slow over difficult terrain with good articulation. I think what is happening here is the engineers really do not have extensive off road experience. I don't blame them as the company is not located in an area of difficult terrain.
See this video below at minutes 1:20 and 1:45. This is a rock stock Ram2500 with solid axles. Slow and safe. It's the only way to be able to travel thousand of miles over the sahara or arctic without break downs. Burn-outs and blasting through sand hills like a high school student with the parents car, breaks the vehicle soon enough.
Fair points to be sure. I was not impressed by the driver either, especially seeing her bomb over that bump. I have little experience compared to your stated exploits but even a small amount is all that's needed to understand that's not the way to travel on difficult trails. Having said that, flying through flat sand/dirt for fun and high speed washboard road travel is undertaken by off roaders with oodles of knowledge, experience and expertise. We'll wait with bated breath for the rock crawling video but it's not coming. This thing isn't a rock crawler. It will be interesting to see what kind of articulation and capabilities it has but safe to say I think it'll be able to handle what the Ram2500 did in your video. Those are relatively small obstacles from what I can make out. Upon further viewing you don't mention the IFS Tacoma earlier in your video just gunning it up over those obstacles with throttle as it's only weapon against low traction. I'm no expert but the R1T would handle that with ease, along with the rest of the obstacles in your video. Also, be careful riding on the exterior of a vehicle off road.I have lots of experience through out north African Sahara, Canadian and Alaskan Arctic regions and USA/Mexico desert Southwest. I am completely not impressed by the Rivian video. Proper off road use is slow and safely. The Rivian suspension is demonstrating limited articulation of the the suspension which is exactly what I was worried about with air suspension and CV joint axles shafts. Driving fast and hitting the dirt hard over hills and bumps can be done in any rental car with enough speed. What I like to see is slow over difficult terrain with good articulation. I think what is happening here is the engineers really do not have extensive off road experience. I don't blame them as the company is not located in an area of difficult terrain.
See this video below at minutes 1:20 and 1:45. This is a rock stock Ram2500 with solid axles. Slow and safe. It's the only way to be able to travel thousand of miles over the sahara or arctic without break downs. Burn-outs and blasting through sand hills like a high school student with the parents car, breaks the vehicle soon enough.
I agree with the above. This is a thinly veiled advertisement designed to keep the interest level up while production ramps up.Fair points to be sure. I was not impressed by the driver either, especially seeing her bomb over that bump. I have little experience compared to your stated exploits but even a small amount is all that's needed to understand that's not the way to travel on difficult trails. Having said that, flying through flat sand/dirt for fun and high speed washboard road travel is undertaken by off roaders with oodles of knowledge, experience and expertise. We'll wait with bated breath for the rock crawling video but it's not coming. This thing isn't a rock crawler. It will be interesting to see what kind of articulation and capabilities it has but safe to say I think it'll be able to handle what the Ram2500 did in your video. Those are relatively small obstacles from what I can make out. Upon further viewing you don't mention the IFS Tacoma earlier in your video just gunning it up over those obstacles with throttle as it's only weapon against low traction. I'm no expert but the R1T would handle that with ease, along with the rest of the obstacles in your video. Also, be careful riding on the exterior of a vehicle off road.
I echo @EVian sentiments...testing limits. And she probably regretted the way she took that bump right after she did it. But the fact that the truck didn't implode while being driven recklessly is good to see.