Ford stops taking orders on the lightening

FishOnOne wrote:


The Rivian battery capacity is 1 mile/1 percent of battery capacity towing that small load which means the Rivian couldn't even make a 2 hour trip without having to disconnect the trailer and pull into a charging lane which is completely unacceptable.

The Bezos specials are rolling into town here by the truckload. So Riv is the first EV local delivery trucks on the road, afaik. And I hope they do very well.
Seen a few of their pickups on the road around here. Looks like the suspension must lower a few inches at speed. Wheels looked stuffed.
One had the $5grand worth of overland truck bed rack/rooftop tent deal on it.
Must've been a convert from the bro dozer, wanna be rock crawler jeeps I spoke of last week on here. Wish I could have gotten a pic, but he was driving like a typical Seattlite as I blew past him doing about 90. (Probably saving the battery as there was a 40mile climb in front of him...)
Best part of the whole thing was he had among other super kool recovery and offroad gear on the rack, a rotopax gas jug!!
I'd say 50/50 shot of it being for looks, or to power his generator while he was roughing it...still ironic either way.

Worst part of the Riv R1T, is they don't have auto pilot, do they?
Seems like it would be very unsafe for me, as I couldn't drive one of them without a paper bag over my head, so as not to be shamed driving something that fugly!