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I've Driven my Rivian 1500 Miles! - And something already broken... - YouTube
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it is now time for the 1
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500 mile update on my rivian r1t that i
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got two months ago the honeymoon period
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is still here but on its way out and
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there's some things that i need to
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mention
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not all of which are positive i have a
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few suggestions for rivien as well as we
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have to talk about the thing that's
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already broken but like all of my other
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rivian videos we're gonna film this one
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on top of a mountain let's get started
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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so
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[Music]
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and just like that once again we are
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back on the mountain 1500 miles is quite
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a lot it's enough to kind of break the
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truck in and get a feel for how the tool
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handles in everyday life because a truck
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definitely is a tool and i haven't just
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been driving this i've been doing all
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kinds of trucky things like taking a
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thousand pounds of off-road tire liners
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to our new warehouse
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took a literal truckload of cardboard to
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the recycling bin these are some of the
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boxes my jerry rig everything knives
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come in
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link down in the description
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i also dropped off some massive wooden
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tables
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these as well are for the new warehouse
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which i'll talk about in a different
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video
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i brought home one and a half yards of
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dirt for our planter boxes because you
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know trucks are supposed to get dirty
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and a little bit of dirt never hurt
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nobody
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i even transported an 800 pound
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mechanical horse that my wife bought
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happy wife happy life i don't ask a
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whole lot of questions and speaking of
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horses in the last two months i did tow
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a 5 000 pound horse trailer about 80
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miles the towing hitch is built
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underneath the truck and has an
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aerodynamic covering if you remember
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from my ev humvee video aerodynamics is
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a huge factor when it comes to range at
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about 50 to 60 miles per hour the
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vehicle is using more energy just
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fighting the wind then it is propelling
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itself forward
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which is why most evs have super
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aerodynamic bodies the rivien is no
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exception
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the rear view cameras made lining up the
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hitch to the horse trailer pretty simple
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[Music]
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and then i can put the truck in towing
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mode which is where we find the
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adjustable brake gain the trailer brake
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gain changes how much work the trailer
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brakes are doing so your truck isn't
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trying to slow down the whole load by
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itself that would be sketchy especially
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if we're maxing out the riven's towing
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capacity at 11 000 pounds as soon as i
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put it in towing mode the range does
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decrease to a realistic estimate of how
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far i can go with the load behind me
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dropping my distance by about half
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so we drove around for about one mile
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and it looks like it's already
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recalculated our range giving us a
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little bit more and it says that when we
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arrive it is a 78 mile tow one hour and
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22 minutes and we will have 84 miles
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when we get there it's interesting that
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it's already preemptively planning for
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the less range while we have so much
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weight behind us now let's see how that
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calculates in real life
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we towed the horse trailer for about 78
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miles most of which were freeway or
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canyon miles which is a bit less than
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half of what rivien can total tow
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however while the trailer is behind me
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it did feel effortless accelerating onto
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the freeway it still felt like i was
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driving a sports car even with the extra
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five thousand pounds remember there's a
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video on youtube of arivian racing a
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ford raptor
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while towing a six thousand pound
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trailer and still winning so the
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performance is pretty incredible but
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overall decreased our range by about
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half
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so if you do plan on towing 5 000 pounds
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more than 100 or 150 miles every single
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day
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just plan on stopping to charge a little
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more often
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but towing that much for that long is
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definitely not a normal scenario for the
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vast majority of people the nice thing
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though is that we only used about seven
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dollars in electricity for the whole
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trip and a bonus of towing with an
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electric vehicle is that we use the
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regenerative braking to slow the trailer
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down instead of using the brakes and
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rotors and calipers taking that extra
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weight and putting it back into the
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battery instead of having wear and tear
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on our hardware science is pretty cool
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there's also a super icy morning that
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you might find interesting if you
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remember the door handles recess into
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the truck to improve aerodynamics but
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that also means that ice can form over
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the door handles when it's winter which
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you would think might lock the truck
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shut until springtime but the handles do
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rock back and forth allowing the ice to
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be broken so it's not too big of a deal
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overall it's been a pretty good
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experience rivien hasn't left me with
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much to complain about but i do have
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some suggestions plus we gotta point out
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that thing that broke and i'm not just
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talking about the windshield which did
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crack from a rock chip on my second day
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of owning it but that could happen to
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any vehicle the riven's windshield does
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cost sixteen hundred dollars to replace
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and my insurance wants me to pay one
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thousand dollars of that as a deductible
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and it seems rather excessive for a
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piece of glass so i just filled the
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crack with resin for about 50 bucks
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which stopped the spread and reduced the
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crack's appearance and we're just gonna
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leave it for now one thing i haven't
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done yet before we get to the negatives
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is i've never used the exterior power
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outlets on this thing
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i am a bit disappointed that we don't
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have the 240 volts for rescuing other
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evs or welding like we see on the ford
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f-150 but this does have four regular
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power outlets two of which are in the
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bed
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plenty of juice to boil some water and
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now let's get to the nitty gritty after
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driving this truck for two months i have
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six
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mild inconveniences that have come to my
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attention don't get me wrong it's a
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great truck but there is always room for
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improvement the first of which is the
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cameras the rivian r1t does have
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exterior security cameras that can tick
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on if someone is getting too close to
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the truck rivian calls it gearguard
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there's 11 cameras surrounding the
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outside but there's nothing recording
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while driving my wife's model x uses the
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exterior cameras to act as a dash cam
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which i think is almost more important
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than using the cameras while it's parked
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my mom has a model y and she even had to
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use the dash cam footage once when
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someone hit her while she was driving
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and i'm no expert on the statistics but
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i feel like more accidents happen while
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you're moving so hopefully rivien does
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allow us to use the exterior cameras as
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dash cams in the future which could
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happen with an over-the-air update the
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second thing i would like to see updated
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is the dashboard we need to see a little
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bit more information rivien has a cute
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little graph over on the side that lets
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you know how efficient you're driving
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which is great but when driving downhill
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the graph goes entirely green and
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becomes entirely unhelpful and i might
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be stereotyping here but i feel like
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truck guys and sports car guys are good
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with numbers and can handle the
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information and since this truck is a
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sports car hybrid having more
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information available would be pretty
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awesome rivien is going for a minimal
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aesthetic and out of all of the electric
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trucks rivien is my favorite but they
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have my least favorite display i think
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hummer is a good example of going
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overkill with the available information
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which isn't a bad thing it does feel
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like you're driving in a video game but
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ford and the f-150 lightning are a bit
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more realistic with coolant and motor
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temperature graphics along with side
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regen and how much torque the dual
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motors are putting out even tesla has
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more information on their graph with the
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watt hours along with the acceleration
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and regen inside the model x i think
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rivian should either add some numbers to
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their graph or add an entire stats for
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nerds page next to the driving modes so
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we can numerically see what this truck
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is capable of amps volts watt hours how
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much torque is coming from each of the
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quad motors this truck has an insane
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amount of power and it doesn't have to
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be front and center we don't want to
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confuse grandma but at the same time i
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know rivien has all that information in
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their truck somewhere and it would just
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be cool if we could access it i know i'm
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not the only person interested in the
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numbers as of now the numberless graph
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and the quarter-sized regen bar are just
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meaningless fluff
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the third thing is something that kind
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of only pertains to me i did put it in
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the pre-order for this truck about three
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years ago and when you order the truck
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they ship the accessories separately
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like the roof rack as well as the rubber
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mats that go inside of the cab and they
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sent that to my three-year-old address
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that i don't live at anymore so they
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were a bit hard to get to but at least
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they got the truck in the right spot
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also the roof racks do make a
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considerable amount of noise over 70
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miles an hour and so i will be taking
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those off and just leaving them on a
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shelf in my garage until i actually need
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them the fourth thing is i can't
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actually drive the truck with the door
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open and i didn't realize how often i do
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this but when i'm connecting to a
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trailer or backing up to a loading dock
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i usually crack open the door to i can
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make sure i'm not hitting anything and
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rivien just will not let you drive if
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any of the doors are open which brings
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me to the sixth thing the doors are
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actually pretty hard to close anytime
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that i've had anybody jump in the truck
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to give them a test ride i usually have
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to tell them to re-shut their door
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because it hasn't closed all the way it
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takes an above average amount of force
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to close these doors and i'm sure it has
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to do something with the sound proofing
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since the truck is more quiet there is
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more sound proofing for anything that
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opens but it is definitely still a minor
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inconvenience and makes the list and
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lastly before we get to the thing that
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broke the sixth thing is that the truck
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will constantly adjust itself at stop
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lights i'll be because it has air
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suspension on each of the four tires and
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it can adjust anywhere from 9 inches to
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15 and even though i'm not adjusting
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between modes it'll like settle itself
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which is a little unnerving and
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discombobulating when you're not
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expecting your truck to be moving
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underneath you usually it's just one of
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the shocks that'll raise and lower an
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inch but it's mildly inconveniencing
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enough that it makes the list which
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finally brings us to the thing that is
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absolutely broken on this truck and i
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kind of thought that it would break from
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the very first time i used it but it's
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this
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truck cover right here it opens fine but
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when it comes time to close it
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that
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something has caught inside of the gear
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mechanism and won't allow it to close
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leaving a foot of it exposed over my
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truck bed
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this happened after recycling the
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cardboard but before putting a bunch of
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dirt in the back so it wasn't the dirt
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it's definitely not something i'm going
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to lose sleep over but it did break
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during the first 1500 miles of driving
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so it makes the video so far after the
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first 1500 miles these are all pretty
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minor things is it a very expensive
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truck so it's held to a little higher
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bar than i would normally but i also run
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my own off-road wheelchair business
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where i interact with customers on a
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daily basis and i know on a much smaller
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scale how difficult production can be
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i'm still mind blown that people can
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accomplish something this complex
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one of the perks of being an electric
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vehicle is the nature's not scared of
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them
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we're so quiet
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or sneaky
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out of all the trucks on the road right
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now the rivien r1t is still my favorite
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i'm still very glad i purchased it the
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power the clearance the size 10 out of
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10 i would buy the truck again the only
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massive downside is once again the cost
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but that's how new technology goes if
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you remember way back in the day over 10
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years ago tesla started off selling cars
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that were 250 000 a piece and now as
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time progressed they're selling cars for
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40 000 and i assume the price of rivians
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and their lineup will just go down over
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time as well i'll make another video
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probably around the 10 000 mile mark
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we'll see if rivien has fixed any of
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these issues i brought up and we'll see
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if anything else is broken kind of a
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long-term durability test hit that
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any specific tests you want to see run i
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have not done a road trip with this yet
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for watching i'll see you around
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