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At some point he’s going to run out of money and people are going to get screwed. It sucks because it is a great camper but his current business model is not sustainable.

Agreed, but I couldn’t find anywhere on BofA’s website that said the installation was covered by the loan, just the physical charger itself. The removal of just the charger is quite simple.

I highly doubt there will be a lien against the house for this, especially if it just covers the charger and not installation. An installed charger can be removed in about ten minutes and repo’d.

I didn’t see anywhere that said they would finance the installation of the charger. That’s the potentially expensive part, the chargers themselves are cheap.

It’s hugely exaggerated. I have never had a flat, cracked radiator or shattered windshield which the internet claims to be common on those roads.

That’s a lot lower charge rate then you should be seeing. You should be able to get at least a 5kwh charge rate from that size generator if the 30amp plug is set to 220v.

A range extender would need to provide at least 11.5kwh charge rate to be useful in my opinion. Using my R1T as an example with a highway efficiency of roughly 2.2mi/kwh at 70mph I would use 70% of the 125kwh pack to cover a distance of 193 miles in 2.75hours. The range extender would add an...

Nice. My portable charger is capped at 32 amps which gives me about 8kw or 15 miles an hour.

It would work but running a cord down the stairs and out the garage door isn’t the most efficient way. They are also normally a 30 amp circuit so they will only provide half the charge rate of a hardwired charger or 3/4 the rate of a typical portable charger on a 50 amp circuit.

No one claims that EVs are the one and only solution to fixing human caused damage to the planet. They can definitely help but it’s only one part of a complex puzzle.

And that’s just the primary life as a means of energy storage for the vehicle. Battery packs at 15-20 years old are still suitable for emergency power backups or off grid power storage solutions.

It would be free because the battery is under warranty still.

Many, many studies can be found proving this point. An EV powered solely by coal power plants is still a cleaner emissions vehicle when full lifecycle from the mine to the junkyard is considered. https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/are-electric-vehicles-definitely-better-climate-gas-powered-cars

I’ve lost track of how many times I have had to tell people that. Yes, it is better for the environment than an ICE truck but that is not the reason I bought it. My last truck was at the very top of the list of worst polluting modern vehicles produced.

If I didn’t have the advantages of early pre-order pricing, the federal tax break, and a no sales tax state I wouldn’t have bought this Rivian. I figure it is a fairly financially risk free way to see what it’s like with an EV truck because I should be able to offload it easily if desired...

Where will you be at and where will the truck be at? Most places you’d work at on the shore of the Arctic won’t be somewhere you can take the truck, and most of the ones you can take the truck to won’t have anywhere for you to explore with a vehicle that size.

While I would say I am mostly enjoying my EV truck experiment so far it is definitely a limitation in some areas, remote travel being the biggest.

Sorry, thought the joke in what I wrote would be obvious.

If you want to take the really slow route you can do it just about anywhere in the US. But it’s going to be the really slow route - as in drive 300 miles and camp somewhere charging for 8-14 hours depending on what you drove in on.

Because it isn’t areal thing if you plan accordingly, regardless of the energy source that powers the vehicle.