Seems like a lot of compromises.
That is awesome. Thanks for the pro tip! Appreciate it. On the super cool robot arm, I while someone makes this we can always bring a friend and pay him with a few beers ??Pro user tip for step up bed access:
Stand adjacent to the tailgate button looking rearward. Put your left palm just inside of the tailgate button, fingers inside the bed, and step with your left foot onto the bumper (just aft of the wheel arch) with your toes pointing mostly rearward. As you step up rotate your body counter-clockwise and put your right foot on the tailgate. Voila! You are standing in the bed!
In normal height suspension mode, this is an easy step for adults of average size and average physical condition to make, it requires very little actual strength or flexibility. In entry mode it's good for short adults or those having below average leg strength. If you have something heavy in your arms, put it on the tailgate first. This works well on both sides of the truck, the move is just a mirror image.
The same foot step (one on either side) can be used to reach boxes, duffle bags, backpacks, tools, building materials, almost anything, in almost any portion of the bed, without climbing all the way into the bed. Just face forward, put your outside hand on the bed rail, step with the toes of your inside foot pointing forward 45 degrees, just aft of the wheel arch. I can reach stuff in the bed even easier than in my 2010 F-150 4x4 (because the F-150 has no step on the side of the bed).
A number of people made a big deal about lack of bed access, but it's a complete non-issue compared to any other full-sized truck like the Silverado or F-150.
Every time I use my Cybertruck for truck things I discover how much easier it is to get stuff done compared to all other trucks I've used. Of course, I've never had a truck with a "man step" and a fold-out handle.
Now, where can I find a bed mounted, 6-axis, 48V, 1/2 ton robotic arm with a Bluetooth controller that can reach the ground and stows tightly on one side of the bed?
Yes, both options are massive compromises with no good answer.
For some reason it best selling EV truck.
Yeah so just because the Rivian is the best seller doesn’t make it he best. McDonald’s and Budweiser are best sellers but they are also garbage.
Rivian is the top truck right now it the cybertruck..
I think you're trying to say CT is the top selling ev truck. But your having a hard time. Lol
The Cybertruck has been outselling the R1T every month for the last 5 months or more. It's actually outselling all EV trucks combined.
So, just like Bud and McD?
Someone said production is hard.The Cybertruck has been outselling the R1T every month for the last 5 months or more. It's actually outselling all EV trucks combined.
I wonder where all those people were who claimed Ford and Rivian were getting first mover advantage in the electric pickup market and that would spell the death knell for the Cybertruck?
The true "slow-boiling frog" moment is represented by all the pickups that have to be priced well under the cost to produce them. Because it's unsustainable.
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I don't want this to happen, but I can't buy enough Rivians to keep them afloat, because the more I buy, the more they lose. The only way to turn the company around is to get a stronger, more dynamic leader that actually understands capital efficiency and has great vision. RJ is running Rivian into the ground by not understanding the money side of the business and not having any vision as to where to take the company. Capital efficiency is paramount to remaining a going concern. He makes noises that they are making incremental improvements to their cost of production but he seems to have no urgency.
If I were a RIVN investor, and I thank my lucky stars I'm not, I would demand better leadership. Unfortunately, RJ has designed the company such that he can't be easily removed and he only hires top management that show even less acumen than he does.
Even if he could cause Rivian to show a gross profit on production for one quarter (as he claims will happen in Q4), and I don't believe that for a minute, it's going to be a hail Mary effort, they will be back to gross losses the following quarter. And he certainly doesn't know how to get them to a corporate net profit, ever. The current business plan can't do that.
He's had more than enough chance, he's got to go. People who are ignorant on the matter will say it took Tesla many years to become net profitable at the corporate level. But they seem blissfully unaware that Tesla auto production was always gross profitable, except for a couple of quarters. Rivian auto production has NEVER been even close to being gross profitable. It's a night/day difference, look it up.
