{"id":32282,"date":"2024-03-14T05:39:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T09:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=32282"},"modified":"2024-03-14T05:39:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T09:39:28","slug":"how-rivian-is-pulling-off-its-45000-r2-electric-suv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=32282","title":{"rendered":"How Rivian Is Pulling Off Its $45,000 R2 Electric SUV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/02_Rivian_R2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"139\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">WIRED talks to CEO RJ Scaringe about how the automaker\u2019s engineering team learned to say no\u2014or make some compromises to create a smaller, more affordable electric car.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/how-rivian-is-pulling-off-its-45k-electric-suv\/\">How Rivian Is Pulling Off Its $45,000 R2 Electric SUV<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>seems like rivian had the same idea as musk for whay do the most fancy verion of a car first, then use the profits from those high-cost vheclies to plow into making the lass expensive every man verions.  like why automatic door handles that pop out as you approach (hit key fob?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;How did Rivian make it work? \u201cR1 was designed through addition. It\u2019s our premium flagship. We got to say yes to a lot of things,\u201d Jeff Hammoud, the automaker\u2019s chief design officer, said at an R2 unveiling event in Laguna Beach, California, last week. \u201cWith R2, we\u2019re really thinking about, to get the price point down, what do we need to say no to?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>still far to expseicvve (est. USD$45k) for everyman.  which is why i predict the usa car mafgs are about to have their asses handed to thembe small inexpesive evs from china &amp; etc. over the next 10 years&#8230; kinda like when na mfgs continued to build large gas gullzerd=s as the marky wanted small &amp; fuel efficient in the wake of thr 1970s oild shocks and gas shortages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>also, beware reading about <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Double_wishbone_suspension\" target=\"_blank\">suspension systems<\/a>. this is a deep and wanderful rabbit hole of just how to hold as tire to a car, allowing t to spin, move up &amp; down, roll side to side, and problably more.  which maybe should be rplaced by 2 preciecely controler actuators, one to turn, on to asdjust camber; seems to me moderen computer controler of these 2 actuaators might make all the maechanical systesm obsoluter; for instance, all the parameterrs of the suspension mechanics are limited by the mechanics, links, pivots, etc.  but use 2 precise &amp; powerful linear actuators instead and put the tire exactly hwere you want it 2k times per second; i think the optimum to to make the contact patch square and true to the ground for max tire\/road contact is the goal, but i might be wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WIRED talks to CEO RJ Scaringe about how the automaker\u2019s engineering team&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[87,996,244,140],"class_list":["post-32282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-cars","tag-cnc","tag-ev","tag-paul","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32286,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32282\/revisions\/32286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}