Rivian CEO Interview

[JAngley]

Here’s a cool interview on Doug Demuro’s of RJ from Rivian, nice to see CEO’s in this long form conversation style. Hopefully we see Scott on these type of shows more. It’s cool to hear towards the end they had a concept of the R1 with a removable roof.

 

[Chavannigans]

I posted this in the Extra Extra Read All About It thread.

Great interview. Typical RJ tactfully navigating questions as he does and learned some cool stuff about their history.

Was just surprised to see him quickly shut down the EREV conversation.

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

I posted this in the Extra Extra Read All About It thread.

Great interview. Typical RJ tactfully navigating questions as he does and learned some cool stuff about their history.

Was just surprised to see him quickly shut down the EREV conversation.

Early in his life, Dr. Scaringe learned about the damage fossil fuel vehicles do and dedicated his education and career to helping society move away from them. I’m not at all surprised by his decision not to do EREVs.

 

[Chavannigans]

Early in his life, Dr. Scaringe learned about the damage fossil fuel vehicles do and dedicated his education and career to helping society move away from them. I’m not at all surprised by his decision not to do EREVs.

I hear you, but my ICE car doesnt generate as much C02 as a concrete parking lot being poured or some douchebags yacht on its way to Monaco.

Im all for environmental responsibility but the onus seems to be solely put on The Little Guy.

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

I hear you, but my ICE car doesnt generate as much C02 as a concrete parking lot being poured or some douchebags yacht on its way to Monaco.

Im all for environmental responsibility but the onus seems to be solely put on The Little Guy.

I agree 100%.

 

[Mousehunter]

Imagine the emissions of burning a sugar cane field (standard harvesting practice) - S. Texas air is hazy for about 1/2 the year due to sugar cane fires in Mexico (probably 500+ miles away).

 

[JAngley]

I posted this in the Extra Extra Read All About It thread.

Great interview. Typical RJ tactfully navigating questions as he does and learned some cool stuff about their history.

Was just surprised to see him quickly shut down the EREV conversation.

Damn I missed it! Yeah I’m not too shocked, they seem to be full EV all the way and I feel like it would change their brand image. How have you been feeling about EV vs Harvester? I honestly think I might be leaning full EV now. I want to remove complexity.

 

[J Alynn]

Damn I missed it! Yeah I’m not too shocked, they seem to be full EV all the way and I feel like it would change their brand image. How have you been feeling about EV vs Harvester? I honestly think I might be leaning full EV now. I want to remove complexity.

The more you learn on here the quicker you’ll convert to full EV. Unless you just don’t have infrastructure where you live. BTW what part of PA are you from?

 

[MaddMatt]

Damn I missed it! Yeah I’m not too shocked, they seem to be full EV all the way and I feel like it would change their brand image. How have you been feeling about EV vs Harvester? I honestly think I might be leaning full EV now. I want to remove complexity.

That seems to be my journey - I started full Harvester, but now that we've been driving a full electric Hyundai for almost 9months I'm leaning heavily towards BEV. It's just so much simpler all the way around and so far the adjustment to charging vs filling has been easy. It's a real change, but for my uses its been well worth it.

 

[J Alynn]

That seems to be my journey - I started full Harvester, but now that we've been driving a full electric Hyundai for almost 9months I'm leaning heavily towards BEV. It's just so much simpler all the way around and so far the adjustment to charging vs filling has been easy. It's a real change, but for my uses its been well worth it.

Great to hear real people saying they think it’s worth the change as I am leaping in fully from my hybrid and making the change. But as you said-for your case and mine it works. For others it won’t but for those that are just fearful I think there’s enough info here to convince people to take the chance

 

[THil08]

RJ is great and all, same with Big E, sometimes. But both of them are twisted in their own ways.

The true great EV/EREV CEO is Scott. He's smart and knows how the car market works.

 

[dreamweaver]

That seems to be my journey - I started full Harvester, but now that we've been driving a full electric Hyundai for almost 9months I'm leaning heavily towards BEV. It's just so much simpler all the way around and so far the adjustment to charging vs filling has been easy. It's a real change, but for my uses its been well worth it.

Traveler EV all the way here. Originally reserved a Traveler Harvester.

 

[cyure]

Traveler EV all the way here. Originally reserved a Traveler Harvester.

I’m still on the fence. I’m glad we still have time to decide.

 

[Scoutons86]

I’m also flipping back and forth, I tend to keep cars a long time so I lean towards harvester as it gets the most mileage.

But I’ve got a phev now and barley use the engine, and like the idea of less to maintain

If it was 350 ev with a small engine for the extra 150 I would be all in, but I know that’s not realistic from a weight, driving standpoint etc

 

[cyure]

I’m also flipping back and forth, I tend to keep cars a long time so I lean towards harvester as it gets the most mileage.

But I’ve got a phev now and barley use the engine, and like the idea of less to maintain

If it was 350 ev with a small engine for the extra 150 I would be all in, but I know that’s not realistic from a weight, driving standpoint etc

Same. My Wrangler is 12 and I’m planning on the same for my Scout. The less maintenance for an EV is really attractive.

How many electric miles do you have on your PHEV?

 

[J Alynn]

I’m still on the fence. I’m glad we still have time to decide.

Go EV-you know you want too. Hang with the cool kids! The cool kids are all doing it

 

[cyure]

Go EV-you know you want too. Hang with the cool kids! The cool kids are all doing it

Honestly we go to Chicago quite a bit and halfway is Dwight (home of the Basset Waddle. What is that you say? A yearly Basset Hound event. Complete with a parade of Basset Hounds and Bassets available for adoption). Anyway, we always stop there for gas and bathroom break. There’s 3 gas stations, one on every corner almost. Casey’s, BP and Loves. If just one of them would get a darn charger my husband would feel better about it. I’m holding out hope.