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Another one of those cool things we won’t get here.
Politics. Road tax for consumer vehicles is generally based on gas sales. For a long time, it was considered a relatively fair method-it indirectly dealt with weight and mileage. EV's completely side stepped gas taxes. There is tax on electricity, but that does not go to road maintenance. So far, the EV taxes are being set to at least approximate the lost gas tax revenue for road maintenance. Honestly, given the additional weight of EV's, it probably does not equal the road damage yet.
Now heavy vehicles also have mileage and weight based taxes-but those are more complex than the simple gas tax. Eventually we will probably get a big brother tax system-where vehicles report their use to the Goverment and tax is based on mileage and weight. Hell, you might even have to prepay and the vehicle will brick itself if you account is empty. Yeah, what fun that will be.
Now heavy vehicles also have mileage and weight based taxes-but those are more complex than the simple gas tax. Eventually we will probably get a big brother tax system-where vehicles report their use to the Goverment and tax is based on mileage and weight. Hell, you might even have to prepay and the vehicle will brick itself if you account is empty. Yeah, what fun that will be.
Yeah-it says concept on it so assumed it was just for public consumption but I did like the look nonetheless
That’s basically how historic vehicles in NJ work. Luckily my classic isn’t registered as historic, along with all my car show friends. Because we found out that it was a huge ripoff of a system.
Interesting news regarding talent acquisition
As long as they explain about the importance of buttons!
Wasnt all of this planned?
Pretty sure they are on the manufacturing side and had to be laid off to retool for the R2 and transition to NACS since they have to stop production to prepare for that. Rivian was going to start production again and rehire some of them, and add more positions if demand for R2 requires a second shift.
I purchased some Rivian shares so i could listen to the quarterly earnings call and remember this being discussed as part of their plan.
Its probably hard to justify keeping employees that cant work to VW since they have an investment roadmap with goals set by VW in order for Rivian to receive the total monies in the deal.
Scout: This will be the sixth time we have recruited laid off Rivian employees and we have become exceedingly efficient at it.
Rivian Gen 2 Quads dropped today with native NACS and a boodle of power.
Reviews are already popping up on Youtube.
Okay other than looking cool, when would you need to use this feature?
I think tank turns look like fun, but don’t know when I would use that either.
I could have used this before when driving down offroad trails that were blocked by fallen trees instead of backing up over a mile since there was no room to turn around.
Switchbacks on mountain roads would also be a lot easier so you arent making 3-point turns and white knuckling it as you back up to the edge in order to make the turn. Roads like Black Bear pass would be a breeze.
Doing hood rat stuff with your friends on your ex's lawn.
I’ve seen enough Bond movies to know that once the machine gun barrels pop out of the headlights -all bets are off and tank turn would be perfect for gunning down nefarious gun toting villains who conveniently form a circle all shooting at the Scout. Seems like an opportunity to boot out LandRover from the Bond series
From Reddit: R2 spotted in the wild likely somewhere near the Palo Alto R&D facility.
I’ve been on the lookout here in town. I would imagine we will see them here soon.
Is it a Rivian R2, Or is it a Rivian testing Scout architecture, since I do believe there was a few reports of them testing Scouts architecture in California.
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