Recent content by Jeremy P.

I've watched some of their videos and it's cool that they started down that path because of the logging truck use case, where the truck is usually going uphill empty and downhill heavily loaded so the extra potential energy of the load is able to be captured. Kind of like these dump trucks that...

I think it's a good solution for a lot of people in North America, given the distances people may travel especially while towing and the many gaps in high speed charging. Having a decent battery range of 100+ miles to cover the majority of use and the fact that in most of the country it's...

Playing around!

We had a fun day trip yesterday learning to drive in the sand at the white wash sand dunes north of Moab. There are a few square miles designated 'open riding' so you can explore where you want (or dare) to. There are also sandstone features so it creates some interesting transitions. We were...

We didn't try; maybe we'll see if we can get a permit next time!

I'm glad you like the pictures; I figured it would be helpful for people to learn about our real world experiences with our Rivian.

That's a bummer about the steering box; here in Grand Junction (90 minutes from Moab) there's a pretty good Toyota community and resources for parts, if needed in the future. I've been thinking about switching my ORI struts out for coilovers from Accutune; how were they to work with?

Here are a couple video clips of driving out of white pocket, and taking a shot at going back up the (ridiculously steep) hill where route 102L drops down into red canyon (route 102 is the typical route to take). https://youtube.com/shorts/rtVd1c6LZv0?si=HrxLMnAjBKEmH5Bx...

On our last day we checked out the sand caves just north of Kanab, went through the Best Friends animal sanctuary so the kids could beg for more pets, and went out to peek-a-boo (or red) canyon. The route out to the canyon was much deeper sand than the day before, especially since I took route...

The next day we went out to Wire Pass, a slot canyon that joins the Buckskin Gulch slot canyon in the Vermillion Cliffs national monument. I aired down to 30psi shortly after getting onto House Rock Valley Road because it had a lot of washboard and loose chunky rock on it. After wire pass we...

I took my family on a trip to southern Utah over New years in order to do some desert exploring. Our first day was traveling from western Colorado to Escalante, Utah with a short detour into Capitol Reef national park to hike down capitol gorge. We arrived at the canyon county lodge with 12% and...

For Thanksgiving we towed a small uhaul 1100 miles to Minnesota (with the equipment to put solar on my in-laws house!) I signed up for the tesla supercharging membership and used tesla fast charging for all but one stop each way. We were fortunate to have an open space to pull into at each stop...

It's not just about ground clearance, it's the overall vehicle size, and also mostly depends on the terrain you expect to encounter. If the typical fill size pickup can go where you normally go, then the Silverado will probably make it. If it's challenging terrain for your GX, then the Silverado...

We did a day trip to Moab on Saturday to ride mtb with the kids at dead horse point state park, and drove Long Canyon up from the river. I'm really pleased with the smooth accelerator control (trying to be careful with the huge bike rack on back). The bikes add a lot of wind drag on the...

I wanted to show some of the gear I take along and how it fits in the frunk. There is a false floor, below which I have the portable charger and adapters, a tall bottle jack and jack pucks (for the jack points), a snatch strap and heavy duty ratchet strap, and (two) portable compressors. Above...