Scaringe wants you to believe that this is a truck for campers and climbers, and Rivian did pack enough treats inside to surprise and delight the demanding outdoor enthusiast. Its front end will not sustain a snowplow its 16-inch center touchscreen should not get wet and won’t respond to input from gloved fingers and its stiff, not-very-adjustable seats lack the comfort of the premium work rigs that double as offices and conference rooms for contractors on the move.Īfter nine hours during my longest day of driving, my neck and shoulders felt like they had been wedged into rear-row coach status on a transatlantic flight. Laden with vegan-leather seats and an all-glass panoramic roof, the R1T is no workhorse. Photographer: Hannah Elliott/Bloomberg Not a work truck The $5,000 package also has a 30-piece kitchen set including coffee drip and grinder, water kettle, and cutlery set. A camp kitchen includes a two-burner electric cooktop and a four-gallon water tank. The discerning consumer would do well to pause to consider them before making a blind-and I do mean blind, as sales are currently restricted to online-purchase. (Yes, those vertical headlights shaped like big biscotti are different don’t judge them until you see them in real life, because they actually look pretty cool.)īut there remain some significant red flags waving at us from the truck bed of R1T as it cruises by. It felt as if they had taken their own notes over many back-country climbing and biking trips, then made a vehicle to suit their own Patagonia-loving lifestyle. My first impression was that Scaringe and his tight-knit team did try to think of everything when they made it. Related: Will Irvine-based Rivian be the ‘Tesla of trucks?’ I ate all my meals from a $5,000 two-burner camp kitchen that fits into a gear tunnel beneath the vehicle. I crossed the continental divide on paved switchbacks and scaled unpaved shale-shingled peaks near a quite unbothered family of fluffy mountain goats. 22, I spent three days inhabiting a Forest Green R1T. Rivian, which anticipates an $80 billion initial public offering this fall, is on the hook to deliver 100,000 electric vans to by 2030, had just announced it would start delivering R1Ts. “For me, my central focus is climate and carbon,” Scaringe told me over a metal bowl of vegetable curry on Sept.
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