Rivian R2/R3 Hands-On Impressions!

all right so rivan had an event today and we've talked about r1t their first pickup truck r1s their first SUV and uh you might have seen the waveform podcast where I talked with RJ the CEO of rvan about the future and R2 and that's what we finally have here and we also have RJ with us here to help walk us uh through this so first of all thanks for joining me again thanks for being here I would love to look around this uh this R2 here for a little bit because first of all we talked about it keeping all of the same character of R1 but you wanted to bring it down in price make it accessible but still be a really fun capable vehicle and bring rivan to more people yep so let's look at this let's look at this R2 and see how much of that character we see here you saw the teasers it's still got the same face which I think is fairly iconic so I don't blame you for not changing that but what are some things that are different about R2 I feel like the size is the number one thing yeah it's a much smaller vehicle I mean as we walk around it we've got as you said that iconic front end um still a beautiful front trunk mhm uh it's a two row vehicle so five passengers we've really optimized everything about this for the package so the first and second row Comfort is really high coming around the back we've got a lift gate but this is a drop glass now so this glass drops which is okay really nice for throwing a surfboard or longer gear into it but I think in general if I zoom all the way out like the silhouette I don't want to fall off the stage here but it look looks like an r1s in almost every way but I think I looked up the dimensions and it's probably closest to like a a little bit you said it's a little longer than a model y a little shorter than model y a little shorter but very comfortable in the in in the second row as well a lot of the engineering exercise was making this door the combination of this plus the second row very comfortable there's a full drop glass without a division bar here so of course optimized around creating that open air experience so so a lot of the headlining specs people are looking forward to is base price of R2 base price of 45 $45,000 and there's several trims so there's going to be a base single motor rear whe Drive trim correct there's a dual motor trim and then there's a crazy triple motor R2 Tri which is the fastest one don't know the price of that yet but that's like a sub 3 second Z to 60 well under 360 plenty capable very quick vehicle but this dual motor one here I feel like is a good sweet spot of a lot of capability yeah it's all-wheel drive it's very quick yeah over 300 Mi of range over 300 okay yeah is the base one at 300 or it's a little less the the smallest battery with rear wheeel drive is under 300 okay but there's an over 300 rear wheeel drive over 300 all-wheel drive over 300 uh Tri motor base is a smaller physical battery than the other two mhm okay yeah and also on the outside I wanted to get to this rear part also you mentioned so I didn't realize this pops out which is pretty cool very power out which is really cool and then at the back it really honestly still looks like r1s which I think is a complement it's got the same bar got the same logo you see R2 down here at the bottom so you know it's the new one but generally it's just a little bit squatter a little lower a little less ground clearance just a little trimmer in every Dimension to make it appropriately two row sized I also there's a couple other things on the other back side here which is you move the charge port yeah so charge ports in the back rear corner so back rear and if we pop it open I believe we'll see as right it's an nacs Port so now we know R1 owners will be able to use an adapter to charge an nacs but R2 has moved it to the back right corner and can charge at NSS natively or now CCS with an adapter with an adapter exactly okay tell me about these wheels they're also kind of a little bit Arrow cap but yeah Calpers this is a dual motor setup but the the this is with the more off-road tire there's also more on-road tire but the the Dynamics on them are outstanding okay couple other character things for R2 do you still have I have to ask the Bluetooth speaker and the flashlight from R1 we have um a flashlight which we should we can look on the other side okay oh now we don't have the Bluetooth speaker in this but it's still flashlight in the door very signature rivan headliner in the vehicle um 100% recycled plastic about half of that comes from Ocean based plastic mhm so a lot of work just on creating an environment that feels comfortable not overwhelming very Timeless there really a process of extracting elements to make it as as clean and simple as possible but still bold okay getting in the R2 here pretty similar looking front seat experience and a lot of the same materials oh is there still a wireless charger going to be up front here and it yep and it'll work really well nice okay okay I hope so got cup holders here and the other thing I I just got a quick walk through of it but there's there's basically two impressively different things to me someone who's driven R1 yeah one is there's not just one glove box there's two there's two glove boxes okay one here one there and one for the passenger so there's no longer the Bluetooth speaker under here but there is some floor storage space here and there's no more under seat storage so before there was no glove box in R1 but you had the center console storage which you still have and you had that seat storage so that's still there there's two USBC ports which is nice but now you have glove boxes the other thing is this steering wheel so we should talk about the steering wheel I haven't quite found a way to explain it but I think the best comp I can give is the PlayStation 5 controller mhm you have these new buttons here with these haptics on them so this big wheel here which you can scroll up scroll down it's got Springs and it's got resistance and they can change based on what you're controlling with the software so here's an example right now I have this wheel on the left controlling the volume dial right here so as I scroll it's got all these little clicks for each individual volume number which makes sense but if I were to explore a larger menu item maybe it's switching between Drive modes or something larger each one of those clicks would feel with the springs and the resistance like a much larger here you go so a much larger click and it actually spring stops you at the end at the top and the bottom of the menu it's clever it's not quite like fully like touchscreen on a steering wheel I like that I like that it's actually just better haptics and more responsive and more contextual haptics for what you're doing in the car it's impressive yeah I like it we developed it entirely house it's um all the electronics to give that software defined haptics is really uh we wanted to create this amazing scrolling experience yeah I did not expect that and that's super cool there's also a bunch of new looking software so this is a software UI refresh that R2 is going to see R1 owners will also get a lot of this stuff which is this new sort of almost like an art style uh for the car so this is the actual color of the car uh this is a camp mode which there's a new Tent Accessory that is really serious looking uh there's also a super dark mode so if you're sleeping in the car you've got this super low light uh all red version so you cannot have tons of light blasting into your eyes um and also this new UI up front which has your speed you can again change volume and get your compass up here and things like that so it's all looking pretty refreshed which I think is a good thing but still has a lot of the rivan character but I think we should jump in the back seat that's do back seat so okay second row of the two row R2 and I got to say really nice second row space here I mean if you're anywhere from 56 to probably like 66 you're going to have no problem with leg room a little bit of storage here two more USBC is good no second row screen but physical AC controls yep good and then uh still a whole bunch of glass in the top I kind of like this though really nice lighting a lantern grab handle I mean the goal for R2 is basically to make an appropriately sized two row version of r1s want to embody the everything that is rivan into a smaller vehicle uh and as you see really not give up anything in terms of the experience or or the field of quality uh the way you approach materials the seats um of course we had to optimize to enable the price point to be much lower but uh we think we've really made the right trades things like back here as you pointed out these being these fysical buttons here little simplified um the door system is massively simplified uh the seats themselves still offer the same support and comfort but yeah obviously in a two row fashion also USBC up here and a little coat hook type thing all right so two last little storage tricks with R2 first of all it does have a front trunk which is it's a tiny bit smaller than R1 but it still has a little bit of a sub trunk and it's the same idea powered opening not powered closing save a little bit of weight save a little bit of complexity save a little bit of money great but this last thing I have not seen before so you might have to explain it but I'm going to it doesn't have a name either it's just you can camp inside it yeah with all the seats down yep I think when I say all the seats down people are like yeah of course you can put the back seats down yeah no all the seats the front seats fold as down okay so show me this so we can go and uh look over here so you see the second row seats are down yeah you get a flat floor but you can also fold the front seats and uh an inflatable mattress comes in and covers this and you have a really nice comfortable full vehicle camping experience then of course even just the passenger seat on the driver or in the front of the vehicle going down is nice for carrying longer things sure so imagine you're carrying out a band equipment or the giant telescope or or whatever you're car but I've never seen the driver seat also go down but that makes a lot of sense so now the headrests go down the entire thing is flat and you put the mattress in it's some accessor you can get it's inflatable and there's glass on the ceiling and you're camping in your car yeah yeah it's kind of sweet so we've seen R2 yep and I think everyone was expecting R2 cuz you guys have been sharing R2 and teasing a little bit but you guys pulled the one more thing on us yep and there's R3 as well now yes so what is R3 so R3 takes um the R2 platform shrink it a bit but it's a crossover that is interpreted in every way through through how rivan would look at a crossover so it's it's a much smaller vehicle uh it has great ground clearance you can drive it on or Offroad uh but it's but it's an everyday vehicle it's a kind of thing you could use in a city it's very maneuverable and has a lot of really interesting functionality in terms of storage and cargo and of course focused on making it comfortable with being so as far as the hierarchy now you have r1s r1t think of those Flagship the flagships the most capable the the absolute highest end R2 coming 2026 lower entry slightly smaller and then R3 is going to be the smallest and the lowest price yeah R3 is the lower price than R2 okay it's also the smallest vehicle it's a 5in shorter wheelbase than what you see in R2 and it still keeps a lot of the same character again I'm I'm looking at the front you keep the same shape this the headlights are again I've seen them all over the streets you know what you see behind you when you see the lights coming up but then it's still got a lot of the same shapes the yellow accents this is also I think a new paint color but it looks like it fits right in but then this hatchback shape at the back here I think is where it differs the most and this is the rear of R3 so the lights don't wrap around as much I notice you got this Big rivan Tex even bigger than R2 MH and then you're saying something about this glass and there's it's got a lift gate the whole rear hatch lifts up and so you can go all the way up so that's pretty normal two rows little sub truck I'm going to guess yeah this is a little extra storage sick there okay and this also pulls out to act as as a seat if you need it nice that's one thing but if we look here at the at the other side of this mhm there's a flipper glass yeah so just the top half now so that's for okay loading up groceries dropping a couple things in the trunk Maybe have a long this is probably going to be a very California thing but your surfboard right you just drop that in here maybe your bike tires stick out the back and you can drop this down and maybe hold it in place that's cool it has yeah this the back is very different very iconic like slope looking type thing back here and then uh there's also another thing behind us and this we call r3x and so this is the performance version of R3 performance version of R3 so it's a little wider and if you come to like the front view here you can see these flares step out a little more give you the room for wider tires mhm this with a tri motor is just that sounds absurd it's incredible um incredible but it takes the R3 product and and really interprets it through the lens of extreme capability on and Offroad so it's it's the smallest probably the most Nimble but also yeah I can see the tires and the wheels look a little bit different yeah a little wider you've got a new accent color y if I'm not mistaken this little orange for the front tow hooks and for these mirror caps that's uh it's different yeah yeah so we weren't expecting that but that is further down the road we don't have a a price or a date for it yet but you're sort of showcasing the entire yeah this shows the the road map for R2 and R3 okay fascinating front trunk still front trunk still rear everything the same as R3 in terms of the lift gate and the flipper glass and ACS port at the back right again two seats two rows of seats wow same steering wheel it's all very interesting very interesting okay I say this keeps the Adventure theme going this definitely has the same character which I'm very happy about and uh I know a couple people uh one of them's name is Andrew who is going to be very excited about R2 so all right uh we'll keep an eye on uh the pre-orders and the release date and all that fun stuff and hopefully hopefully it comes out soon yeah we we're excited about it sweet thanks best of luck yeah thanks

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Published: Thu Mar 07 2024