I *FINALLY* bought a New Electric Truck!!

three years ago at the end of 2018 i pre-ordered an electric truck the rivien r1t i've previously said on my channel that the anticipation of getting a new vehicle is sometimes more fun than the getting of the new vehicle and that's still true but three years is a lot of anticipation it's been so long that i've had enough time to build my own electric vehicle like this ev humvee behind me and you might be like hey jerry if you already have an electric vehicle why buy another one and you're right but a production ev has a few things that this doesn't like air conditioning one thing that added to the anticipation of getting my new truck is that last summer my uncle asked if he could buy my tacoma and i said yes thinking that the reviews are right around the corner that was eight months ago the rivians did get delayed and i've been sharing a vehicle with my wife ever since don't trust delivery days during a pandemic today though rivian says my truck is ready for pickup which means today might be a very good day let's get started [Applause] [Music] normally rivien brings the truck to your house to drop it off but i live really close to a service center so we're just gonna drive over there my mom's my chauffeur today cambry's a little busy now normally i would say that buying a vehicle right off the lot is a terrible financial decision and i still 100 agree with that but i'm gonna do it anyway and i'll explain why a little bit later in the video as we're driving let me tell you what's happened so far so about two weeks ago i get an email from a rivien guide which is the person in charge of making sure my truck is the exact specification that i want we solidified the design and then about a week later i got another email which allowed me to pay for the truck put insurance on it and after it was paid for and had insurance i got to pick a delivery date and that delivery date is today and i should be seeing my truck for the first time in just a few minutes that might be my truck and no it has different rims we're getting close though i can feel it look at all those it's really in heaven right there that one's mine with the black rims yes oh that looks good so many trucks we got the rivium blue and then we have mine right here we have the white it's charging up we have the black rims i suppose a little extra got the cover this is the founders edition so there's a couple little extras here and there so i think they want to go over a couple things with me inside so i'll let them do that and i will let you know afterwards what they say i'm excited i'll walk you through all of my interior design decisions and everything that i chose for this truck but first let's do some driving now i've already driven quite a bit i've made a video with rivian in colorado where we took these trucks off roading now rivien has never paid me and they also did not give me a discount on this truck unfortunately but i'm a big fan and it's officially mine [Music] [Applause] [Music] so obviously i've only had this truck for a couple hours now and so this is not going to be a full review but i'm going to do a walk around in a minute i want to talk a second about why i think it's okay financially to buy this truck now anyone who buys a brand new vehicle obviously has their own justification for buying it but i'm going to tell you a few of mine one electric vehicles are just so powerful i saw a video literally two days ago that showed a drag race between a rivien this truck and a ford raptor obviously the rivien one with a zero to sixty of three seconds but the cool part is is that after the race they loaded the rivian up with 6 000 pounds on a trailer and it still beat the ford raptor the power of electricity is just insane plus there's virtually no maintenance on this truck rivien has an eight year 175 000 mile warranty on their battery and drivetrain which is insane there is not a single gas vehicle on the market that has a similar warranty even tesla who's made more electric vehicles than anyone says that their battery pack is still at 90 percent capacity even after 200 000 miles so the longevity of electric vehicles is not even in question so in my mind while the rivien is a little bit more expensive up front it makes up for it with longevity and just how fun it is to drive the rivian can tow 11 000 pounds has 15 inches of ground clearance 908 pound-feet of torque with 835 horsepower plus if you want to get nitty-gritty electric vehicles are sold out everywhere for like the next year or two so i could literally turn around right now and sell this truck for more than i bought it for which in my mind makes it a pretty good financial decision plus something that people might not realize is right now there is a federal tax credit of seven thousand five hundred dollars if you buy an ev from a company who's made less than two hundred thousand so teslas don't qualify anymore which is a pretty solid discount off the price of a rivien i think this rivien right now is number one thousand six hundred thirteen so they're still pretty new and if you think it's crazy that the government is offering so much money for electric vehicles wait till you find out how much they've given the oil companies [Applause] so it's a little windy up here on the mountain but we're on a mountain and it's time for the walk through obviously the most important thing of any truck is the flashlight hidden in the door but let's talk about some other things we have heated and cooled seats heated steering wheel big screen in the center smaller screen up here for how fast we're going i chose the black interior and the white exterior as you've probably noticed from the rest of the video and right here is where we find the air conditioning when it's parked the handles pop open like this so we can grab them and then they close in so they're flush with the side panel for aerodynamics one cool thing about aerodynamics which i've only seen in electric vehicles so far is this little slot right here when you're going fast like let's say above 30 or 40 miles an hour air resistance is one of the biggest obstacles to range so what this does right here air comes in through the bumper and creates a curtain around the tire so that the tire doesn't cause any turbulence or drag that combined with the recessed door handles and that it can lower down when it's driving fast on the freeway or something like that makes it so that it is more aerodynamic and increases the range we do have 314 miles of range which is quite a lot now if we are towing it usually decreases that range by about half or at least that's what i found when we tow with my wife's model x we'll have to do some towing tests with this a little later on since it is a truck and i do plan on using it as a truck speaking of which we can drop the tailgate down it automatically lowers but you do have to lift it up into place and since you probably remember from my colorado video i made sure to pay a little extra for the spare tire coming over here to this side we do have the gear tunnel which is kind of like a cavity that goes all the way through the truck we can store stuff in there we have five seats storage compartment here here as well as i mean there's so many things going on i almost forgot we have the air compressor right back here so when you're off-roading or need to air down the tires we have an on-board compressor which is also used to raise and lower the suspension 15 inches of ground clearance and once again over here we have the aerodynamic curtain over the tires and a front trunk and inside of here we have a storage cable the gear guard and some child seat brackets there are four wall outlets as well two in the truck bed and two in the gear tunnel that you can use to charge up things off of that massive 130 kilowatt hour battery as you can tell i am super excited for this truck i have been waiting three years for it i do plan on making a full review video and putting it through some tests later on let me know when you want that review video though like after 10 000 miles 50 000 miles make sure you hit the subscribe button so you don't miss those turn on notifications and come hang out with me on instagram and twitter as always thanks a ton for watching i'll see you around [Music] [Applause] you

Channel: JerryRigEverything

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Keywords: Electric Truck, Rivian, Rivian R1t, Rivian R1s, Rivian Review, Electric vehicle, EV, Hummer, Cybertruck, Tesla, Lightning, Battery, Charging, Rivian truck, battery truck, electric pickup truck, electric car

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Length: 9min 44sec (584 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 02 2022