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Yes, by not buying the darn thing in the first place
That sounds like a gigantic PITA.
Sounds like EVs are absolute pains in the a55. The only reason ever buy one is if you live in a city with HOV lands and you can use your EV to bypass the traffic caused by the smelly middle class. Other than that dastardly reason there’s no reason to own an EV.
That being said, the Rivian is horribly inefficient. It's slow to charge and gets low miles per kWh. It's only purpose as I can tell is to be a status symbol for saving the world from fake warmageddon while also pretending other people see you as a real man able to pretend to do real man pickup chores.
That’s a really good article!
This sounds extremely stressful, having to manage this so closely, with the results of a miscalulation (that could happen several times a week, depending on how much you drive) really ruining your day.
My life is stressful enough. I don’t need this, but the government seems bent on subjecting us to this.
Buying one of these just went higher on my “Things Not to Do” list, ahead of cave diving and snake handling.
Yeah, no.
Quite an adventure. EV’s will be the end of automobiles as we know it. I’ll keep my Taco.
Can you image those horrible do it their-self mechanics trying to fix an EV , my neighbor thinks he’s a mechanic and is fixing his cars everyday and he’s a Courier ,LOL
Note that when it warned him that less than 50 miles were left, he only actually got half that. What use case supports a pickup with 50 mile range? Aside from vanity...
that “truck” is creepy g@y
What happens when your Rivian runs out of power - and the power company has sent you an alert NOT to plug in EVs because the electrical grid is overloaded?
Got these alerts all the time last summer.
many current gas car owners will be forced onto public transportation because of economics/logistics
Read later.
Motortrend writes like the 2022 Rivian R1T is a good vehicle while noting that the tow truck driver says that he tows a couple a week
I looked up the curb weight of this truck. It weighs in a 7148 pounds.
This is about the same weight as a 3/4 ton pickup but only has the carrying capacity of a 1/4 ton truck.
It has an advertised range of 314 miles (real world is likely half of that). Load up the bed with 500 lbs of cargo and you will likely get 1/4 of the official range.
My 1/4 ton truck has a range of about 600 miles real world. I can fuel up my truck in about 10 minutes and don’t need a GPS to find a gas station.
Perhaps EVs will be practical someday but it probably won’t be in my lifetime.
So, you run low on power, it is not a simple matter of stopping for 5 minutes at a gas station. No, you have to go to a power station and plug in the vehicle for who knows how long just to get it charged enough to go again.
This makes road trips take extremely long. It is doubtful that you could completely charge your car during a meal or rest stop. Goodbye, 600+ mile per day road trips.
If it was not MT would the cost have all been covered so graciously or would it have put a huge dent in your wallet. If I drive my van to totally empty and roll to a stop, I can call a friend who brings me a 5-gallon gas can, and I can then drive another 75-80 miles to gas station.
Why is the author blaming themselves for incredibly bad engineering?