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  1. SpaceEVDriver

    Extra, Extra....Read All About It!

    This is why we’re leaving Ford. They made some really fantastic vehicles in the Lightning and the Mustang Mach-E. But then they chickened out/bent the knee/whatever and cancelled the best-selling BEV truck on the market. I simply don’t trust that they will stick to it with the newest BEV...
  2. SpaceEVDriver

    Scout Traveler SUV Green Off-Road Concept

    No slides for me. I’ve had them two or three times and don’t like them. Also, no teardrops for me. Worst aerodynamics of any trailer type (for the given trailer size).
  3. SpaceEVDriver

    R2 Launch Watch

    I'm back from Phoenix where I had the opportunity to hear the seat cooling fans. There's a high pitch to the seat fans that's particularly annoying, so I probably won't use them very often if ever again while driving. I'll definitely turn them on while the vehicle is cooling after sitting in the...
  4. SpaceEVDriver

    Off-topic stuff…

    I hope you are alright after the impact. The Chevy Bolt EUV is a smaller car, so that might be wrong for you, but it’s usually a great bargain because too many people think it’s ugly. And I really enjoy driving it in the city. The Mustang Mach-E is a great car and it’s typically a pretty...
  5. SpaceEVDriver

    The Garage (What did you work on today?)

    We have a similar setup. ICECO is pretty indestructible. We've had our 60L dual zone for 6 years. Had one before it that we let go with the sale of a tent trailer and regretted it immediately. We use a 5 kWh, 3kW power station that we've had for about 3 years now. We have a dual element...
  6. SpaceEVDriver

    Rivian R2 Experiences

    I took the R2 on a 332 mile round trip drive today to drop some visiting family off at the airport. On the drive down, we lost 5000 feet of elevation, drove 133 miles, averaged 46.3 mph. Total energy use was 30.84 kWh, for 4.31 miles/kWh or an estimated range from full to empty of about 390-400...
  7. SpaceEVDriver

    R2 Launch Watch

    There are almost 20 pages of people discussing the removal of the fans from the seat backs. Most aren’t necessarily upset about the fan removal, but about the fact that there wasn’t a public announcement about the removal and people were learning about it by noticing it is missing from their...
  8. SpaceEVDriver

    R2 Launch Watch

    We have a VIN in the 07xxx range. I haven't had an issue with the cooling fans in the R2. But all of the vehicles with cooling seats I've driven have noisy fans in the seats, so I may just be used to it. I do think Rivian under-sized all of their fans in the R2. Small fans have to spin...
  9. SpaceEVDriver

    Rivian R2 Experiences

    The R2 is the first BEV in which I've felt carsick as a passenger. I thought I was done with car sickness after we got the Mustang Mach-E and Lightning, but it's come back with the R2. I don't get sick in the Mustang, Lightning, Silverado EV, Kona EV, Bolt EUV, Lucid Gravity, or any of the other...
  10. SpaceEVDriver

    Infrastructure

    Besides two regular road trip destinations (LA area ~monthly and Northern CA a couple times a year), most of our driving is to new places, so we try new chargers fairly frequently. There are some sections of highway that we traverse to get almost anywhere, and when there's a new charger...
  11. SpaceEVDriver

    Infrastructure

    I avoid brand-T charging stations. They're generally less reliable than the others in the sense of there's always a pile of the chargers offline and the rest are typically filled every-other-stall, which excludes many non-T vehicles. I've had far better charging success at non-T charging...
  12. SpaceEVDriver

    Is there anything SM could offer to get you to switch from EREV to BEV?

    I make a monthly ~480 miles one-way drive in any one of our EVs and only stop twice in each direction. This is exactly the same number of times I stopped before we owned EVs. And we stop in the same places. Only one of the EVs has an EPA rating of more than 400 miles. (This trip has about 400...
  13. SpaceEVDriver

    Rivian R2 Experiences

    For us, there was no deadline on the ordering. We had our invitation early enough in the year that we could have ordered for a July delivery. We just weren’t ready.
  14. SpaceEVDriver

    Rivian R2 Experiences

    Its GVWR is 2904 pounds (1317 kg) and dry weight is about 2328 pounds (1056 kg). It was closer to the dry weight than the maximum weight. Note that for towing on a highway at a mostly-constant speed, the weight matters much less than the drag. For stop-and-go and mountain climbing, the weight...
  15. SpaceEVDriver

    Always on Highbeams

    We discussed this some time ago. The Rivians and Ford F-150 Lightning have this capability. I’m not sure of other vehicles, but I’d be surprised if others don’t as well. There are some instances where it’s not great. For example, the matrix headlights can be distracting if you encounter lots of...
  16. SpaceEVDriver

    Rivian R2 Experiences

    It does. We were in Off-Road, All-Terrain mode most of the time. There are only three sub-modes in Off-Road. I put it in soft sand mode where I got some wheel slippage because that turns off traction control.
  17. SpaceEVDriver

    Rivian R2 Experiences

    We didn't air down. There was only one spot where the tires slipped a bit and it was coming up out of that gully you see in the first photos. It's down, up, and a sharp turn to the right all at once. I took it at the wrong angle on my first approach and had to back out a bit so the turn wasn't...
  18. SpaceEVDriver

    Rivian R2 Experiences

    We took the R2 on an off-road adventure today. There’s an old, 50-mile wagon road between Williams, AZ and Jerome, AZ. Some parts are paved, some are gravel, and some are rated 6/10 in off-road difficulty. We encountered a Ford Bronco with 37” tires coming up the mountain while we were...
  19. SpaceEVDriver

    General suggestion

    That's what I would like to see as well.
  20. SpaceEVDriver

    General suggestion

    You don’t need a 14-50R to get the benefits from 240 Volt outlet in the vehicle. A much smaller L14-30R is the standard for generator output. The size of the standard face of a L14-30R is only 39.6 mm while the SAE J3400 (NACS) EV charging receptacle's largest dimension is 49.1mm. A 30 Amp (7.2...
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