Author: Logan Carter
Certainly one of the good features on early Rivian R1Ts was the camp kitchen, which was a large modular kitchen that slid out from the R1T’s gear tunnel between the pickup bed and passenger compartment and contained a cooktop, a sink, and a full set of pots and pans. Unfortunately the camp kitchen stays vaporware, but Rivian recently showed its latest travel kitchen which isn’t anywhere near as cool because the camp kitchen, but will probably be compatible with R1, R2, and R3 models.Rivian Unveils Trio of Recent Electric VehiclesYouTuber Brian Tong attended a Rivian event where the corporate debuted…
Photo: HondaEver for the reason that lost 12 months of 2020, life seems to have entered warp speed, so that you’d be forgiven in the event you can’t recall the not-so-distant past when automakers were banding together and vowing to end development of internal combustion engines and concentrate on a full EV future. That did actually occur, though, with automakers from Alfa Romeo to Volkswagen and almost everyone in between making some form of pledge to attenuate ICE production and maximize EV production. More recently, buyer behavior has shifted more toward hybrids, causing these automakers to backtrack on their pledges…
Out of all of the episodes from its 14 years on air, “Mythbusters” co-host Adam Savage’s favorite result’s the 2009 golf ball automobile experiment. This automotive experiment required the team to cover a fourth-generation Ford Taurus in a whole bunch of kilos of clay and carve dimples into its surface to see if it could improve the Taurus’ fuel efficiency. How could covering a automobile in dimples even begin to enhance the unique design’s aerodynamics? It really works on golf balls, so why wouldn’t it work on a automobile? At the very least that’s what the parable posited.My First Automotive: Jemele…