welcome to tech in the car i'm oliver this is the amazing rivian r1t electric pickup truck i'm here
in sonoma in california near san francisco and i'm going to have a look around this truck show you
the cool things going on hopefully go for a little drive in a little bit if you find this video
useful then please give me a like and subscribe because i've traveled to california to show you
this let's get into it let's have a look around this car now or this pickup truck so i'm new to
pickup trucks being english we don't generally have pickups in the uk and this is an electric
so that makes it even more interesting so this is rivia's first electric vehicle this is the r1t
and this is a mid-sized pickup truck similarly size to a chevrolet colorado of f-150 by ford
or maybe slightly smaller than a cyber truck from tesla that isn't out yet but i do have a video in
the chevrolet colorado so check that out and this is a really really cool design it looks
like it's from the 1950s and also from the future at the same time and i have to give credit to the
twitter who said that and what i love about this is it's just like a little detail so for example
you can see the yellow accents on the rivian logo that's really really cool that's attention
over 800 horsepower and over 900 newton meters of torque and there are four
motors there's one on each wheel which is how it has such good all-wheel drive this car has
the rack on the top here you can put your skis on it and you can put a tent on it and i'm going
to show you as i walk around this event all the other cool stuff here but you know just look at
this design there's lots of things from these door handles that sit flush which is very very
detailed orientated and then here we have our gear tunnel which has enough space to put through a
kitchen or other cool accessories which you're going to see in a little bit let's have a look
at the front of the r1t electric pickup so the first thing you see is this light bar running
across the front here and you can see these really interestingly designed oval headlights which are
called stadium headlights and that oval logo the design language carries on throughout the car so
you can see that over logo in all kinds of places in the light bar the shape of the door handles the
interior the design on the top of the vehicle it's all over the place the oval is a bit like
the design language that lamborghini has with their hexagon design it's a similar kind of thing
now the front of this car people describe it as very welcoming and very friendly because most
pickup trucks are very aggressive looking this car to me looks like a really futuristic design
but it has utility all over it again the stadium light design shape continues down here and then
we've got these hooks at the front which allow you to attach things to it for towing so it's a
very very useful utilitarian but cool futuristic design at the same time let's talk about the ride
height of this so this is 14.4 inches ride height but it can go down to around 7.9 inches this is a
maximum ride height and you can adjust it on the screen in the interior so you've got tons
of ground clearance now the bottom floor of this vehicle is totally flat so you're not going to
catch any rocks or anything if you're off-roading which means it's really really well designed like
everything on this car and of course i mentioned the gear tunnel which we're going to look at let's
have a look now at the back of this pickup truck so we've got this light bar going across the back
and just like the front it's got the stadium oval design inside the light for attention to detail
and then we've got a really high clearance on this vehicle i mentioned this is in its maximum
clearance and then we've got our tailgate as well and there's four and a half feet of space in this
flat bed so you have lots of space plus there's two power sockets there's an air compressor
and you can even put a tire underneath the floor of the bed so there's a lot of utility
in this vehicle this is the gear tunnel on the r1t and you can see all the way through
the middle here and there's 11 cubic feet of space in there you can close it and seal it and you can
actually get access to the gear tunnel from the inside of the vehicle as well these are some of
the accessories you can get with the r1t so using the gear tunnel you can get the camp kitchen which
is 5 000 extra and you can get a 30 piece set with it and then on the back here you've got
the tent and you put that on the back here and you can mount it so there's a lot of utility
in this vehicle so let's have a look at the front now there's 11 cubic feet of space in here
you can fit your charging cables and you can fit some suitcases in there and this is powered
as well so this has got a ton of space at the front here and it looks very good how do you open
the back of this well there's a button here which you can press it and it's a power opening and you
can see this plate here covers the back so you can slide stuff in and then you've got your tether
points there where you can attach this system to which will lock everything on the top of the car
let's talk range this has a 135 kilowatt hour battery which has over 314 miles of range
there is 185 kilowatt hour battery version coming which will have over 400 miles
so i'm sitting inside the rivien r1t now you can see there's two displays we have
digital drivers display here and then we have a 16 inch infotainment system in front of me
and this is a very nice sharp display is got all the controls along the bottom so i can go into
the drivetrain modes here i can then go into the security information tells me if the gear
funnel is open or the tonneau is open if it's the electric version
we've got the 360 degree cameras and then we've got the videos which have been saved
if motion has been detected or the alarm and you can watch them back and see what
happened and then at the top here we have our user profiles you can swap between your user profiles
adjust the steering wheel and side mirrors and up top here you have our data information lte
wi-fi and the temperature outside and if i go back to the navigation i can open up navigation here
and this is google maps as well by the looks of it and i can adjust that as well on here navigation
settings which is interesting i can also adjust my climate control down here at the bottom
and then of course i can go in and i can see our music if i tap on music and this has got spotify
and the radio as well and tune in as well if i want to listen to the radio streaming or podcast i
got spotify and you can search for spotify as well and connect it to your phone or use data if it is
included with a car inside the car we've got this ash design of the inlays which looks very very
smart and this is just a really nice interior the seats have a lot of detail they're high quality
the build quality we've got the rivian logo here in the middle here and down there and this tray
here reminds me of the ioniq 5 with all the space here and then we've got our alcantara
roof lining up here and our panoramic glass sunroof as well and the other thing which is
interesting is with these doors we obviously have on this car we have the meridian sound
system which is up 1200 watts so this is the explorer edition which is 73 thousand dollars
and then we've got these two controls on here which lets me turn the music up and down
or adjust other settings on the steering wheel this is very
much similar to a tesla if we pop out the car flashlights in the door so rolls royce
has umbrellas in the door rivien has flashlights in the door which i would suggest is more useful
so another cool thing about this car is that down here there is a pull-out bluetooth speaker
which is charged when it's in the car and it glows at night as well so you can use it
as a lantern and you put it back in and it charges that adds to the
flashlights in the door one thing that nobody's mentioning is there's a little spoiler back here
which looks pretty cool and it's got the brake lights on the top as well but there's little
vents there so the air flow can come through to reduce drag so we're going to do a 0 to
60 run now this car can do it in three seconds we're going up a hill let's let's do that then
here we go three two
so that felt very fast and again i can feel the grip because there's obviously four motors and
there's a lot of torque as well over 900 newton meters of torque and 800 horsepower i've been
for drive in the rivien r1t and this car feels like a car now that wasn't a freudian slip i know
this is a pickup truck it drives like a car the acceleration is faster than most cars including
most teslas 0-60 in three seconds it grips on all surfaces it's got four motors over 800 horsepower
in this trim over 900 newton meters of torque it drives like a car not like a truck and if you're
interested in one of these you should definitely check it out if you love any vehicle you should
check one of these out because it really is something extra special hope you found this look
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