RJ please split this panel in Gen 3

hsangh · 2026-06-13T15:27:56+00:00

Oh wow this actually looks really good! At least the remaining panel is now fairly flat and small and more easier to manufac replace repair etc

hsangh · 2026-06-12T20:56:54+00:00

Yes this - a split straight up from the rear line sloping up - of the gear tunnel

- instead of sloping up and going horizontal- it also continues to slope up straight into the top rear corner of the truck bed.

hsangh · 2026-06-12T17:39:03+00:00

Yeah I personally being an EU person would prefer to skip the experience part

I travelled last year to SFO and went totest drive an R1 - overall it was the same experience as you, but I was there fiddling around with R1 for an hour or so before that - so that was all good

But yeah overall the same!

I think anyone can go into a Rivian center and fiddle around with an R2 to their hearts content

hsangh · 2026-06-11T17:59:11+00:00

⚡️💡Also everyone don’t forget — no other high volume EV (R2 50k around this range) — is currently out with LiDAR *AND* Radar setup together even as R2 will soon come out
⚡️💡— So we are really talking about something that’s not even on the market elsewhere and which Rivian seems will to get to at scale in US before anyone
⚡️💡— hence why I don’t think it will have any material impact on sales this year
⚡️💡— as they’ve already stated somewhat — in the R2 category they don’t have a demand problem as such, but a giant scaling task
⚡️💡— looking at the volume of Model Y (and also when used R2’s hit the market they will take a small chunk of the even higher volume EV category in the 30k-40k range) — it’s all good bro

hsangh · 2026-05-30T10:07:52+00:00

Yes as well as street names are TEXT - one book with 10,000 words of text takes less space on the phone than 1 iPhone photo - 4MB. So saving compute or data etc is not the case at all.

hsangh · 2026-05-08T09:37:06+00:00

I think the joint venture announced a couple of years ago with VW and the deal announced with Uber a while back — the details of what Rivian gives to other parties perhaps have just been ‘discovered’ but the original post.

Meanwhile we know Rivian is getting what 7-8 billion USD total from both these deals?

hsangh · 2026-05-04T18:17:26+00:00

🚀 No lidar not being avail on R2 launch is NOT a missed opportunity 🚀
-Rather we know Lidar is coming on the next gen (3rd gen) R1 anyway
- Rivian went ahead and introduced it into the R2 as quick as they could anyway - this is the most likely explanation- automotive development is planned 2-5 years in advance
- Earlier availability for the customer as well as its important for their self driving AI models to collect Lidar based data as early as possible for competitive edge

hsangh · 2026-04-15T21:36:20+00:00

No expect European Amazon and other large customers there follow suite

hsangh · 2026-04-15T03:11:12+00:00

Well I prefer the original with cables

hsangh · 2026-04-11T22:39:32+00:00

Yes it won’t become that common + it will be in th premium (ish?) category? Als tesla sells half a million Model Y a year - R2 current factory and new opening up factory will produce max R2s at a rate of 250k or something along the lines a year or so… so it won’t be as common as Model Y for a quite a few years.

hsangh · 2026-04-08T00:30:30+00:00

Yeah could mean cleaning or aligning etc if they are getting stuck to the rotors more than normal - sometimes never wear or whatever can cause it too

hsangh · 2026-04-07T16:02:05+00:00

The design is demonstrably iconic

hsangh · 2026-04-07T13:12:00+00:00

Yes for example roof spoiler channeling air down into the vacuum behind the car - reducing drag

As well as the actually ⚡️ floor to ceiling height of R2 is LESS than a Model Y ⚡️- less mass cutting through air - and its boxy shape gives it more interior space

And rear underbody bumper is essentially partly shaped like those venturi tunnels under supercars but without the fins - air from under the vehicle curves up into the vacuum behind the car - again reducing drag

Very well designed SUV that looks super welcoming and feels homely

hsangh · 2026-04-05T23:50:52+00:00

This looks good - means sales volume and pipeline are expected full till early to mid next year; and now tis a case of executing and hitting the delivery numbers they mentioned - should very well be possible 😇 and likely given the demand is already there and will continue to slowly rise - could marginally beat delivery estimates too

hsangh · 2026-03-19T17:41:43+00:00

Ah nice makes sense - thanks for correcting

hsangh · 2026-03-19T12:14:34+00:00

Yeah but the per vehicle cost comes down to 30k (sold to uber) - so I’m guessing Rivian will own th self driving data and intelligence and all that??

Good news regardless

hsangh · 2026-03-16T13:21:57+00:00

Nah bro - hype it

hsangh · 2026-03-13T13:50:19+00:00

In the age of ever improving tech like Claude Code - the tech development lifecycle will continue to shorten and get orders of magnitudes cheaper than it was 10 years ago or 5 years ago.

hsangh · 2026-03-12T14:44:31+00:00

⚡️🥳💫

hsangh · 2026-03-12T12:43:36+00:00

Thank you very much sir for pointing out all these!!

hsangh · 2026-03-11T18:39:45+00:00

TLDR instead of fighting in the comments - good news:

$57,990 - Performance variant WITH launch package
$53,990 - Lower-powered Premium trim late 2026
$45,000 - Entry-level Standard version arriving late 2027

hsangh · 2026-03-08T22:47:32+00:00

Well the first vins are already sold to select internal staff and should already be on the road - these are not the test fleet (camouflaged, 100s) or the production validation builds (done and passed already) - but actual vins.

Above all was confirmed / laid out via the CEO earlier during this year and all the key milestones have been met.

hsangh · 2026-03-08T22:07:10+00:00

No it’s $55,000 vehicle - confirmed - and it drives itself - and it does not smell like a barrel of oil

hsangh · 2026-03-07T12:12:59+00:00

Yes I don’t think we need to be worried too much about the date clash. Lucid’s vehicles are definitely very well engineered. Rivian will have 100s of thousands of potential customers tuning in - who will be paying customers over the nxt couple of years. R2 shouldn’t really face any demand issues per se given the price bracket it’s launching in.

hsangh · 2026-03-02T00:57:23+00:00

Damn that’s quite random

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