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From hanging around in the Rivian forum it seems like they’ve pretty well fixed the towing range calculations finally. When I first got the truck it would just have your range once a trailer was hooked up and then be reasonably accurate in adjusting as you drove with varying efficiency. The next...

Could be many reasons. It’s a much shorter drive than to Telluride or Durango so less time driving and more time enjoying the interrupted vacation. Maybe grab lunch, beer, groceries, etc while getting enough charge to make it home at the end of the trip.

That’s exactly how the math worked with my truck based on many, many times charging with 110v outlets at work. I typically could pull 12 amps, or about 1.2-1.4kw, and averaged 1.5mi/kwh off-road. In subzero temperatures I would actually lose range slowly when charging off 110v 15amp plugs but...

Yeah, but then ten hours later I can only drive my R1T another 20 miles and all my drinks are warm.

I don’t think anyone cross shops a R1T and a Maverick. While they both have wheels and a bed that’s about where the similarities stop. The R1T is significantly more expensive but also comes with a significant bump in every performance and comfort metric across the board.

Cortez only has level 2 chargers so three hours isn’t too far off in order to get a decent charge.

Yeah, planning better could have given them a heads up sooner that the Tesla might not be able to make the round trip on one charge but it doesn’t change the fact that the Tesla couldn’t make the trip on one charge and was inconvenient. An equivalent ICE Camry wouldn’t have had a problem and...

Battery tech as it stands is far more energy efficient than any internal combustion engine. If converting to equivalent units a gas truck getting 20mpg is getting .6mi/kwh (of the energy potential of gasoline) versus a Rivian R1T getting 2.5mi/kwh. It’s a matter of designing a battery that can...

Around 10%, again similar to an ICE truck when you swap street tires for heavier and larger all terrains. The R1T dual max drops from 420 on street tires to 370 with larger all terrains. Non factory tire swaps have been about the same percentage.

Simple production numbers and capability are the explanation. EVs account for less than 1% of total registered vehicles in the US and it wasn’t until Rivian and Ford started producing trucks in late 2021 that there were even EVs capable of doing much more than graded gravel roads. Rivians and...

That’s one of the statistics that EV proponents use but it just doesn’t work. The potential energy of a gallon of gas is ~35kwh but there’s no engines that can actually extract that energy. On average a vehicle engine is 30% efficient so that gallon of gas is 11kwh of real world energy. This is...

I’d say a the only metric they are behind is the difference between charge time and refilling a gas tank. If you could top up a battery in 5 minutes just about anywhere in the country also then there’d be really no reason to buy ICE. Neither of those solutions are happening anytime soon so ICE...

No one ever claimed that was the case. A R1T rated at 400 miles will do about 200 towing, just like my 3500 will do about 600 miles but only 300 or so when towing. The electric drivetrain is far better for towing but the shorter range and long charge times suck.

About half the range, like any other truck. Charge times and locations are the killer. I’d pick towing with my Rivian over my 3500 diesel every time if the charge times were better, it’s that much better. The Ram is far more convenient though with quick fuel stops.

And it means what? The assumption is that they’re broken or ran out of charge when it’s just as or more likely that they’re on a flatbed for delivery.

The Tundra is not a hybrid in any real sense, it’s simply an electric motor to boost power and torque. If you want a hybrid get a F150 hybrid or wait for the Ramcharger in a year or two.

A Lance 1475 is a well built (for production trailers) model that will compromise on the rougher off-road for more comfort. Still durable enough for forest service type roads at reasonable speeds.

Brought it on a motorcycle ride to the middle of nowhere. Works as advertised.

I don’t understand the router speed complaints. Is 100mbps or faster not good enough?