the rivian r1t we've got one here and holy Frank this thing is some sweet I
absolutely love it ever since Tesla brought out the model less that was the
first car that was very clearly thought from the ground up to be an electric car
and since then everyone's been well for the most part they've just been
making normal cars just cramming the trunk full of electronics and crap not a
care in the world rivian though they have done a fantastic job look at the
size of this trunk look at how much stuff in here we have
the LTT backpack water bottle the holder
for the water bottle sorry Nick I just stole that from you and even the
wireless transmitter and that's not all down here we have this magnetically
attaching cover and below that we have our bike lock as well as your AC charger
that you can see it's at your house I've been absolutely loving just throwing all
of my crap into this front it isn't the largest on the market that goes to F-150
Lightning but In fairness to rivian that is a much larger truck the overall
design I think is fantastic I have never
gotten as much attention electric car as this one right here spare maybe the tie
can everyone absolutely loves it well
not everyone some people think these look kind of stupid but they are
factually wrong moving around to the side here we have our charging port
which opens every single time you touch it fantastic and it's able to do 200
kilowatt DC fast charging that isn't quite as fast as you might find from
like genesis or some others but it still is pretty darn good and it has worked
every single time for me for tires they have done this incredible thing where
they give you options of tires that you might actually want these ones right
here we have the all terrains and they are sweet good old Pirelli scorpions and
of course all of the rim options I think look fantastic
the amount of crap that you can fit in here is truly incredible you have all
this space that's underneath the seats that's pretty average but there's also
space behind the seats by pushing this button right here you
gain access to the Gear tunnel which goes behind those seats but in front of
the bed and you can fit just a lot of
crap in there it isn't quite as practical as I thought it might be at
first like I found my stuff always ended up in the middle and I kind of have to
like yeah do one of those but at the same time it
exists and as a bonus if you're putting like a kayak or something on top you can
just hop right up here 250 pounds it'll
hold so you can you know grab something put it up on the roof racks or put
something into the bed it's just a nice spot to have
ours came with the power tonneau cover and to use it you just press right here
you just press right you press
yeah about that so the power 10-0 cover
it turns out uh you get any sort of dust or crap or basically just use it and it
breaks completely they are going to fix it but they haven't on this one yet so
for now it's just disabled of course this being a truck you've got a nice big
old bed it isn't as large as you'll find on some but thank you Mr snazzy for
confirming that 4x8 sheets of plywood will go in here just fine also back here
is the spare tire area which uh notably
does not have a spare tire in it and you cannot buy his spare tire from Rivier
anyway it's a nice spot to throw your stuff it's like a Ridgeline back here
we've also got an air compressor love it you can just dump your tire pressures
when you're going off-road and then you know plug her in and put them back up
for when you're going home and also we have a very loud Miota
hell yeah and also we have our bike lock which you can put through like that and
attaches right in here so you don't have to worry about anyone walking off with
it assuming your car is locked also back here we've got dual 120 volt outlets and
some lighting for your bed in both sides of the gear tunnel we also
have 120 volt outlets on the other side it's 12 and right here we have a first
aid kit on the other side is the air compressor
line one of the coolest things about this air suspension though is that if you want to
use the well the bed as a bed or get one of those fancy camping chummies
it'll auto level for you let's see how well it works
now if I come in here to Camping mode
and hit Level truck apparently it will
level it
apparently it can take a while
okay apparently it's done let's go check their homework we've got the level here
put it on ah let's go right here not bad
they're within a degree given how we set them up within a degree is pretty darn
good hopping into the back here this is a
very nice spot to be we've got USBC charging USBC chargings seats are very
comfortable it's got plenty of Headroom we've also got two cup holders access to
the Gear tunnel and a little control for the rear climate and your rear seat
heaters I really appreciate all the little details they have like this right
here it feels premium without feeling like you're gonna destroy it the first
time you touch it in the driver's seat first thing I want
to talk about is the key it looks really cool it's like a little Carabiner thing
and it's also one of the worst keys I have ever experienced yeah it doesn't
work most of the time I'm not concerned about the car not turning on but it
doesn't always wake up doesn't matter I just use my phone now by just using the
rivian app I can access the car like you normally would just through my phone I
still do keep the key on me but it's really nice to be able to just use this
to you know lock unlock you've got all the controls that you'd expect climate
control so if it's super hot or cold you can have it be comfy when you get in I
like it in here we've got loads of space good old cup holders in here there's a
lot more room than you'd think and we even have um
a Bluetooth speaker for some reason it's cool I guess little bit gimmicky but it
is cool in here they have eliminated almost all
the buttons that you want but they at least haven't done it in a dreadful way
so steering wheel controls really nice we've got rollers we've got buttons so
you can do your sound and your cruise control easily enough we've got stocks
shouldn't be something that you have to talk about but here we are and of course
the star of the show is this great big touch screen right here essentially
every single thing that you want to do with this truck requires watching
tutorial but at the same time once you've watched that tutorial it all
makes sense and you can just do it again and again looks like we've got our title
app right here really nice and large to look at we've got Spotify if you want
crappier audio and of course like your phone or your radio now one of the
problems is that there's no Android auto or apple carplay rivian says this is
because they can do a better job of their apps by doing it natively which In
fairness the title app does not look this pretty if you're doing it through
Android auto the problem though longer they're going to
only just I don't know it would be really great if they supported it for
five years or so that's great for Tech but that's pretty freaking terrible for
a car and I would really appreciate to be able to plug in my phone and know for
sure that in 10 or whatever years Android auto will still go through my
phone and I don't have to worry about this being good at all also you have to
use Alexa which is fine but nowhere near
as good as Google Assistant one thing that is very nice though is that they
use Google Maps for navigation so you don't have to worry about it sending you
to the complete wrong spot like the Lucid was doing and overall even though
for like climate control I'd really like to have physical dials you can just
press this here it'll make sense the controls that you want are on the main
screen at all times it's not bad I don't hate using it and well yeah it's not bad
what else can we say Andy that's uh that's about as shining of a review as
you can get these days an electric car I know something we can say our segue to
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with your projects moving forward driving this thing is
freaking incredible all right let's put her into sport mode here break regen's
ability uh off iron kill foot all the
way on the brake gas oh my God this
thing is fast holy Mick balls even
though this thing is 8 500 pounds it
also has four electric motors and a grand total of 850 horsepower that means
that you have a 0-60 time of just three seconds this thing chopped the Lambos
you can have a V12 and get absolutely dusted by this thing just like
oh my God it is so good it is hilarious
and when you think of the performance for money it's like actually pretty good
this is an expensive car this thing is 120 000 Canadian dollars but at the same
time not many cars can do that kind of
acceleration and especially it has a truck bed on it it has a front I can
store all my stuff here and who does that oh my God
Andy just asked if this is the fastest 120 Grand car 120 Grand Canadian it very
well could be I don't know now as for
cornering um it's a truck I've actually had a little bit of trouble kind of
figuring out exactly how good it is just because like it's so incredibly fast so
you can end up being extremely extremely fast in corners and
the chassis isn't quite able to handle it but at the same time for a truck is
the best handling truck I have ever experienced now the ride when you're in
sport mode is pretty stiff so let's just put it back into all purpose and have
things soften up a bit for us here this is a very bumpy road for just everyday
cruising around this is very quiet and
comfy it isn't quite as quiet as some of the other EVs and most of the noise is
coming from just the air around you this
is not the most aerodynamically shaped truck well for a truck is pretty good
but for a car it isn't but it does mean that you have a little bit of wind noise
coming as I don't know there's probably some weird turbulence right around here
overall though I think they have done a fantastic job at hitting what they
actually want to do we can talk about going camping and blah blah most people
are probably going to be just taking this to and from work every single day
and it will be great for that these seats super comfortable this whole
interior it manages to be premium but I'm not worried about like scuffing it
up making it all dirty it isn't like those white Interiors in the Genesis
overall it is just a very comfy spot to
be and I quite like it oh it just started freaking out there that's one
thing that I have noticed the adaptive cruise in this is not quite as good as
what you'll find on some other cars like genesis or VW or GM or pretty much
everybody it's pretty bad overall it is good at holding the distance to the
person in front of you but sometimes if there's a car parked on the side of the
road or turning left or maybe there's even just like a hedge that's kind of
close to the road it freaks out a bit and it's like ah is that someone no no
it's fine it's not the most confidence inspiring but it's the sort of thing
where you kind of know when it's gonna screw up after a little bit one thing
that it also has is the uh Highway assist feature which has never worked
for me it just says Highway assist not available on this road and that's always
been the end of the story in my testing going back to the hole this has four
electric motors thing there's a motor on every single axle so you don't have to
worry about like a differential not doing a good job or like you know
locking up while you're on the road bad time time it just is always going to be
able to do it so that the exact amount of torque that you need is going to the
tire that requires it this also has a really cool thing where by using those
four Motors they're able to calculate the coefficient of friction for a given
surface this means that they're able to pretty accurately guess if it's like
gravel dirt mud snow so on and so forth
because for all of those different surfaces you're going to want different
allowable amounts of slip so on tarmac like this you want traction control to
have it so that your tire is slipping as little as possible the more that it
slips the more you're just going to be turning energy into heat bad time you
will go slow on dirt though it's a little bit different so if you say want
to do a really tight corner or do some hard braking you want to actually be
biting into that surface a little bit and slipping the tire will allow you to
be going faster and have more traction that's why in rally they're doing those
big old big old slidy slide they're able
to get more grip by doing that whereas on a race track you do not want that in
the slightest the limiting factor when you're off-road with this is not going
to be the capabilities of the car with this four wheel drive system it will go
there the limiting factor is how hard do you want to push it with a hundred and
twenty thousand dollar truck I guarantee you that buddy in a 30 year old Pajero
is going to be ripping past you because he does not give up now there is also an
option for a dual motor setup so this right here has an open differential for
the front and the rear so it isn't going to be as capable off-road but at the
same time you have Motors on the front and the rear so as long as you don't
have like Each corner in the air you should be fine and using the brakes they
probably still can get you out of most situations one advantage of the dual
motor setup though is that well there's a couple advantages one it's cheaper and
two you have more battery options so this right here has the 135 kilowatt
hour battery which is good for about 500 kilometers of range there also is a 400
kilometer of range 108 kilowatt hour battery that's available with the dual
motor and an incredibly beefy 135
kilowatt hour battery that's also available with the dual motor so if you
do want over 600 kilometers of range that is possible although it is
expensive and you don't get the quad motor the seats are a little bit high up
for my liking but at the same time like it's a truck of course they are and oh
we've got a corner coming up right here
is not the most confidence inspiring I'm sure with the sport tires instead of the
all-terrains it would be a little bit better but at the same time it's a truck
and these seats you're just gonna be
yeah just flopping all around it tight Corner they're not super bolstered but
again it's a truck you can chop just about everything on
the road like I am certain this goes faster around corners than my GTI and
this is 8 500 pounds incredible what you
can do with 850 horsepower you do get a surprising amount of
inverter wine in here I don't know if you can hear that right now but you can
sort of constantly hear the electric motors but for one it sounds cool and
two you don't hear Too Much once you start playing some music in here we have
a sound system from Meridian Audio and it is pretty dang good it isn't perfect
but they gave us a full-blown EQ so any
weirdness that there was we were able to just take out and it's yeah
okay at that load it distorts a little bit but when you're right around here
it is pretty darn good for all of you r1t owners out there this is the EQ
settings that we use to hit our LMG Target curve but with an EQ like this
you can put it in however you want and the 3D surround is actually pretty darn
good now in audio there's a thing called staging so you want your singer reading
the center and then your instruments pan from left to right and in cars that's
really hard to do because you know you're right against the side there's
these reflective panes and so on so for the most part you just hear the speaker
that's closest to you and this though it does a great job of sort of surrounding
you they have this 3D surround in here so enhance sucks it brings too much to
the back but on and off both sound pretty darn good it is a little bit
roomy but at the same time like we have this huge pan of glass we have glass
glass glass they've done a pretty good job
now although practicality wise this thing is fantastic there is one thing
that I'm sure all of the truck people have been absolutely screaming about and
that's Towing and uh yeah if you want to
tow things far don't buy this get a diesel like that's pretty much it you're
going to have to be charging it up because at the end of the day like f
equals m a you add a trailer and all of it's a drag back there you're not going
to be able to go that far it's just physics that said though if you just
want to tow something locally you're going to have no trouble this has heaps
gobs of torque it's going to be a good time and like
I freaking love this thing this is a fantastic car sure 120 000 Canadian is a
lot of cash but at the same time
trucks are freaking expensive and this one right here is the best one that I've
ever been in for the most part the vast amount of people that are buying
electric trucks it is their very first truck and I have to say for most people
this is gonna be great like we are in Langley and there are so many City
trucks around and I freaking hate him like I'm from rural Nova Scotia and I
absolutely love a truck for like you know doing some good truck things
hate it when someone's just driving this big stupid thing around to take their
kids to soccer practice and stuff so stupid so for the vast majority of truck
owners around here this is going to be just plain better for them like way
faster way more convenient and also just
way cheaper to run have you seen the gas prices here brutal but yeah if I had the
money I would go out and buy this thing tomorrow like I like it that much it is
absolutely fantastic probably my
favorite car that we've reviewed so far it is oh it is so good like what what
truck can you do this in Andy nothing oh nothing yeah it's sick guys please
make the r1w the wagon I would buy that
in a heartbeat I don't even care go into debt oh we have a corner oh my God uh
right sport lowest turn off stability sure actually no I want stability on I'm
not that confident uh we don't have time oh
oh yeah it core is pretty darn well for
something this massive how do they get 8 500 pounds to go around like this you
guys did a darn good job rivian so if you like this video hit like get
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