David Vaught

Part 2 of our road trip is live! Enjoy the scenic Blue Ridge Parkway, and stick around for my impressions of how the R2 road trips. Rivian R2 Fall Road Trip to Asheville - Days 2 - 3 youtu.be/ZjyO28hbLuY?is=i5H0… via @YouTube

Where my fellow Dawn Patrol folks at? (I love these fun little touches in the @RivianRoamer recap emails)

My favorite type of YouTube comments are the ones where people think a publicly traded multi billion dollar company makes decisions because of YouTubers with 1000 something subscribers.

Trying to up my photography game, @DomDoesMedia and his amazing R2 shots has me wanting to improve.

Day 1 of our road trip is live! Stay tuned for days 2&3 coming early next week too! Our Rivian R2 Fall Road Trip to Asheville - Day 1 youtu.be/MX4v0czRQDo?is=34Zp… via @YouTube

A lot has been made of the R2 efficiency and range, and that’s certainly something I’ve joined in on in different ways. Driving this car on a trip and just having cool adventures with it is absolutely the way it was engineered to be enjoyed. Fixating on the spec sheet and tests don’t do it justice. It’s a joy to live with, and I can already feel myself becoming attached to it much like I was to my R1T. There’s some special sauce that Rivian has that I haven’t found in any other vehicle. The only way to describe it is that they’ve just nailed the “vibes” aspect of vehicle ownership. Is it perfect? No, but it is improving every update. That’s all you can ask.

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In case anyone was curious what a battery start temp in the 60s F at around 30 percent starting SoC R2 charge curve looks like

Should be a fun day on the parkway

View from the front porch of the Airbnb

I can’t refer for FSD because I’m on a Premium Connectivity trial? Wut

Day 1 in the bag, hot take is this car road trips really well.

Things are going well

Being station limited doesn’t matter when you’ve got BBQ sandwiches

Maybe it’s time for a last second road trip to see some fall foliage 🤔

Trying to get fence sitters to go ahead and order now? Delayed RAP1 announcement during earnings call tomorrow? Also, what do you mean you can’t send me new hardware via OTA, have you even tried?!?

Should be interesting earnings. R2 ramp not far enough along to see the full positive impact realized, but maybe there will be some surprises. @TravisKetchum live stream at 5pm eastern should be a fun hang!