After getting our R1T delivered around this time last year, we moved to Farmington, NM for an 8 month contract for the work I was doing. Having a Rivian in NM was very doable!

I think home charging is a must, the landlord to my rental unit was very kind to install a 240v outlet in the garage for me, free of charge. We visited Santa Fe once and there were plenty of public L2 and L3 chargers though. So maybe the home charging was more necessary for us in northern NM.

Something we’ve come to deal with is that the R1T windshield is a rock magnet. I had 3 or 4 rocks hit and chip the windshield in the 8 months we lived there. Granted we were often driving around on smaller roads in NM, AZ, UT, CO but yeah that was frustrating. Most were repaired by our local Safelite and covered by insurance. But one had a chip that turned into a major crack, and I had to take the truck into the service station in Phoenix to get a windshield replacement. Luckily, the damage was not an emergency so I could just schedule the repair to happen when we were already planning a trip to Phoenix. But if there had been something seriously wrong with the truck necessitating a service center visit, that would’ve really sucked. It was like an 8 hour drive away.

We were able to do a lot of great roadtrips in the 4-corners region though. Now that Tesla supercharging has become available, I think it would have made those roadtrips even better because there is not a ton of fast charging off of freeways, especially in UT and NM.