{"id":1958,"date":"2024-05-06T16:46:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T23:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2024-06-10T02:33:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T09:33:20","slug":"cars-rivian-r1s-is-an-excellent-big-ev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/cars-rivian-r1s-is-an-excellent-big-ev\/","title":{"rendered":"cars: Rivian R1S is an excellent big EV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/cars\/rivian_r1s.jpg\" alt=\"Rivian R1S \"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We rented a <a href=\"https:\/\/rivian.com\/r1s\">Rivian R1S<\/a> EV on <a href=\"https:\/\/turo.com\/us\/en\/car-rental\/united-states\/rivian\">Turo<\/a> so seven of us could tourist around for the day in comfort; it happened to be in Forest Green with light Ocean Coast interior that I would spec were I to need a three-row SUV (I don&#8217;t! that&#8217;s why there are rentals!). It&#8217;s spacious, comfortable, high tech but usable, quiet, made in America, and gets 71 MPG equivalent. If you buy a gasoline-swilling CO2-belching Range Rover or bloated generic Audi\/BMW\/Jeep\/Mercedes\/Porsche Q7\/Q8\/X7\/Wagoneer\/GLS\/Cayenne crossover instead of this or another premium battery-electric crossover, you should probably be ashamed of the choice you made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rivian recently <a href=\"https:\/\/rivian.com\/newsroom\/article\/rivian-announces-mid-sized-platform\">announced<\/a> a smaller R2 and unexpectedly a dinky even smaller R3 as well; the latter sounds like it would be perfect for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/cars\/rivian_r3.webp\" alt=\"side view of silver Rivian R3 future car model\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company is still losing money, but it has $9 billion in cash and the R1S was the 4th highest selling EV in the USA in Q1 2024. The combustion age is ending! <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/tbf\/1\/16\/1f50b.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udd0b\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/tec\/1\/16\/1f697.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude97\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t6c\/1\/16\/1f4aa.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udcaa\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We rented a Rivian R1S EV on Turo so seven of us could tourist around for the day in comfort; it happened to be in Forest Green with light Ocean Coast interior that I would spec were I to need &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/cars-rivian-r1s-is-an-excellent-big-ev\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1996,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions\/1996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}