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Seeing it next to that Atlas it doesn't really look all that big compared to a normal (lame) pickup truck.
My very first thought.

I know the dimensions we have been told make it longer than a Ford F150, but it does not look bigger than the Atlas.
 


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I would love to know everything sooner, but we are gradually getting closer to it.

Now, back to watching grass grow. !!!!
 

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I'm sure they've been driven in the desert and deepest darkest jungles, there just isn't a few million people hanging out in those locations with drones.
 

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I'm sure they've been driven in the desert and deepest darkest jungles, there just isn't a few million people hanging out in those locations with drones.
Even in the deepest darkest jungles there will be at least a potato cam.
 

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Even in the deepest darkest jungles there will be at least a potato cam.
Not really. There are millions of people in the Bay Area and they've been cruising the truck around Palo Alto for weeks but we only get a few videos from people that a) are there, b)care, c)get their phone out in time and d) share it with the internet. Send a truck to a remote location and the chances of us seeing something drop exponentially. We know that Tesla sent a bunch of trucks to Alaska this winter for cold testing, but no one saw anything.
 

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Rivian had a lot more to prove. They had an IPO coming up and literally billions on the line for their early investors. ROI on that trip was off the hook.

Tesla has a million+ reservations and promoting the truck is actually just making trouble for them. In a couple years when reservations start running out… maybe. But by then people will know what it’s about.

You gotta build hype somehow. Tesla is a hype machine. Rivian had to try a lot harder.
 


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Rivian had a lot more to prove. They had an IPO coming up and literally billions on the line for their early investors. ROI on that trip was off the hook.
Though they did get a ton of ROI, they didn't seem to get quite enough ROE (Return on Experience). Now with all the problems customers are having with hardware, one has to wonder if none of those issues came up during the trip and other demo work they did.
 

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Though they did get a ton of ROI, they didn't seem to get quite enough ROE (Return on Experience). Now with all the problems customers are having with hardware, one has to wonder if none of those issues came up during the trip and other demo work they did.
They had a ton of issues on the trip. Almost every journalist who wrote it up talked about various things and passed it off as “These are preproduction vehicles so these issues should be fixed before production”…

Go back and read those trip journals, Rivian bodged those trucks together then put on the serious sham-wow and spit polish every time an issue came up.
 

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Rivian bodged those trucks together then put on the serious sham-wow and spit polish every time an issue came up.
As it really should be. That's how you test things and get them right.

They never used the portable CCS chargers - didn't even try them - which sank the company that made them.

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