Regular Motor vehicle Assessments is recognised for a couple of issues. To start with, for getting bizarre, crass and making use of that voice. Secondly, for offering insightful and sometimes profound criticism not only in direction of automobiles but towards the societies and social norms that bred them. This evaluate of the Rivian R1T has lots of all of the earlier mentioned and, like the very best RCR videos, it designed me think.
See, the major conceit powering Brian’s (aka Mr. Normal) argument is that Rivian wants us to care about what we’re executing to the world, but in also encouraging persons to take their Rivians out into nature, it is speeding the destruction of the mother nature it’s seeking to celebrate and maintain. That tends to make not only the Rivian by itself, but the people today who purchase it, performatively virtuous granola-crunching, Patagonia-donning wealthy nerds.
He also looks to genuinely like the R1T as a truck, ignoring all its social connotations. That can make perception for the reason that, at the close of the day, it’s a properly-thought of, eye-catching and strong EV that performs really hard to justify its sizeable rate tag, significantly in the quad-motor configuration RCR drives in this article.
So, I’m curious. Do you concur with RCR about the inherent hypocrisy of setting up an EV for the setting but then inquiring people today to go and travel all about Mother Nature with it? Do you even treatment? Let me know in the responses.