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 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 Rivian's first electric
vehicle this is the r1p 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 to detail
these wheels have six piston callipers because this car has 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 so we're gonna do a zero to sixty 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 yeah 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 Rivian 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 to 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
i'm at the la auto show and this is a worldwide premiere of this car and this car is all about
sustainability it starts at a really great price around thirty thousand dollars going up to around
fifty thousand dollars it has a range of over 300 miles on most models and it's got cool technology
the back windows come down and all of them open up for your dog so it's basically called california
mode because we're here in california there's solar panels on the roof which give the car extra
charge there's a rotating screen in the middle which means that if you want to watch a movie or
charge you could do that and just like the hyundai ioniq 5 in the key v6 it's got bi-directional
charging so this car has a lot of firsts and it's a really exciting opportunity to see it
deliveries start in november 2022 so this is a 2023 model hello welcome to the channel very
nice to me this is a really exciting car there's loads of cool technology in here do you think you
can just maybe give an overview of kind of the key features so you know we launched the fiscal ocean
here at delhi auto show and it's we are aiming for this to be the world's most sustainable
vehicle so we got a lot of recycled materials inside for example all the carpets are made from
recycled plastic bottles and fishing nets from the ocean but of course another important aspect
of this vehicle is it's fun to drive it's got some exciting features nobody else have so for example
we have the world's longest range for an evia crossover in this price range
so the top has 350 mile range in the u.s uh epa range and then we got the base vehicle
which starts at thirty seven thousand five hundred dollars which has a 250 mile range inside we got a
on the top version of screen and acted by a push of a button turns from picture mode to
landscape mode from portrait mode to landscape mode we've got solar roof that can give you up to
15 100 miles a year and we've got a very advanced power train with silicon carbide inverters in the
four-wheel drive version we have torque vectoring which makes you feel like a formula one car driver
when you drive it and it's uh super fast you know 0-60 in 3.6 seconds in the fastest version
so we have kind of put a lot of effort into this vehicle to really make it a world-class vehicle
okay i mean all of that sounds exciting so for example can you foresee in like
beautiful weather like here in california that that solar roof might give you enough to get to
work and back potentially well 1500 miles a year i mean then you have to live really close to your
work okay but the idea is that everything adds you know to the sustainability and
you know i i hope one day solar can give you a lot more but today is it's an add-on you know i
don't think you can drive alone from the solar but it's definitely a star it helps obviously
and is there as far as the battery technology so you've got new battery technology in your
top trim models what are the benefits of that over lithium-ion technology so it is these are mine so
in the base we have lfp technology which is much lower cost and but also less density which means
you need a little more space which we have in this vehicle so we could still get the 250 mile range
in this vehicle lfp but that's also why we reach our price level of seven thousand five
hundred dollars so that's important in the higher level models we have nmc technology which is more
energy dense and that's how we get that super long range so yeah it's very very exciting and
do you have i read that you were able to charge other vehicles with that is that correct as well
so we've got bi-directional charging so first of all in case let's say you have two of these
vehicles you can go and your partner for example is stranded somewhere you can go and charge
your partner's vehicle you can you can also power your home with this vehicle for up to seven days
depending on how much electricity you use so that's another exciting thing that if you do have
a power outage you can actually power your home with this vehicle so i mean i think that's really
exciting i think you know there are lots of people tesla make great cars but i think tesla from my
perspective are getting left behind with the advances that companies like yourself are making
and i think you know bi-directional charging is one of the things which i really like i've
tried out on kia and hyundai and i think it's a really clever thing so this car is is fast it's
fantastic value for money and it's coming out next year but what is your summary of this stuff
summary of this car is it's obviously super advanced we got the latest technology the reason
we have the latest technology is because most car companies take about four years to develop a car
so when you buy a new car today the technology in that car was probably chosen three years ago in
this case we take less than two and a half years to develop it so technology in this car was chosen
this year and when it comes to market next year it's a very new technology and of the second part
is that you know we are using magnus iron austria carbon neutral factory to manufacture this vehicle
so we know it's going to be high quality and it's going to come out on time next year so it's a very
exciting car thank you very much for your time i appreciate it thank you and uh maybe when this is
able to be driven i can have a drive that would be fantastic thank you very much i appreciate it this
is kia ev6 i've got the gt line s and the gt line here so on the left here we have the red gt line
s and other side we have the blue gt line now these cars are really really cool because they've
got 800 volt technology which means you can charge up to 62 miles in five minutes which is
super super fast charging the ev6 has two choices of power trade 226 or 321 horsepower the range of
these is over 300 miles even on the gt line s and then there is a 577 horsepower gt as well which
is coming i love the design we've got this new tiger face design on the front here with these
really cool sculpted led headlights these cars are based on the new egmp platform this journey
started with the kia soul eevee back in 2015 and they're due to be 11 new models of eevee from kia
due by 2026. it's a big push towards electric from kia and these cars are really revolutionary in
their design and the features they have on them in the uk these cars come with a 77.4 kilowatt
hour battery which is good for over 300 miles of range and they can charge up 10 to 80 percent
in 18 minutes on a fast rapid charger what do i think of the ev6 i think these are fantastic cars
they look amazing they're great to drive really well loaded with all the latest technology driver
assist technology on the top lines you get head-up display as well and loads of other cool bits
i've got the hyundai ioniq 5 and what happens when you have your electric car maybe you've
got a tesla now and you run out of charge in the middle of the countryside like we are now
well maybe you need a hyundai ioniq 5 because you have something called v2l vehicle to load
which lets you charge your tesla from the rna5 and i'm going to show you how that works now
so we've got the tesla charger here
and this is a vehicle to load adapter and we plug this in here like that
this has got a nice waterproof cover on it as well turn on the vehicle to load and
then if i press the button on here the tesla charging will open and now the tesla model 3
is being charged by the hyundai ioniq 5 and you can charge any electric vehicle
with this with a three-pin plug you can also charge up to 3.5 kilowatts if you have a european
adapter for that and what's cool about this is you can also power other things like coffee machine
or lawnmower or whatever you can plug in you can do with this you could plug in a caravan and power
that as well that's pretty cool this electric car has a load of first which other electric cars
don't have it's a next level game changer you've been for a long walk with your doggy and he or
she's got really wet in the rain you've dried them up with a towel but now what what are you gonna do
they're still wet you don't want to put them in your car well you might have one of these this
is a doggie drive it's basically a really powerful hairdryer with the ionic five you can plug this in
because it's got a three three-pin plug and you can have enough power to actually operate this
you can't do that on any other cars because it requires more power than the car can output but
the ionic 5 can output that so i'm going to show you now how do you power this from the inside of
the ioniq five we'll take the plug open the door unsurprisingly plug it in to the three pin socket
back here the light will go green to let you know it's working just turn it on and then
you can dry your doggy let's talk about the name so this is the porsche thai khan not the tycan not
the toucan nothing like that thai khan there's even a video on porsche's youtube explaining
how to pronounce it so that's the first thing the next thing is it's called the turbo and turbo x at
least in the top end of the range why is that when it doesn't have an engine it's not got any turbos
it's just because it's a way porsche denotes their high performance models nothing complicated
nothing controversial no need to get your panties in a twist as english people sometimes do it just
is their way of telling you this is the fastest most powerful version of the taikan you can get of
course there are standard non-turbo versions the 4s the rear wheel drive and of the cross turismo
as well they don't have turban on the name so if you really really don't like having turbo in the
name that's your answer but if you want the best best performance you want a turbo like this model
here or the turbo s so let's talk about the taikan turbo this car has a range of about 280 miles it
loses a bit of that range which you get from the rear wheel drive version which is around 300 which
is the same as the e-tron gt quattro because it is a performance car it can do zero to 60
in 3.1 seconds the turbo s can do it in 2.9 seconds and this car as i already mentioned
is about 130 1000 pounds with all the specs and all the options this car and the e-tron gt are
built on the same platform the vw group developed to make sure that they could move forward with
fantastic designs and indeed there are lots of similarities in the cars including as i mentioned
the rear which has the same size boot but there are also changes obviously the rear
design of the lights are totally different on the car you can see the porsche has the lower
nose he's got the really cool very flat porsche lights with the four led data running lights
it has a very distinct porsche look very very much just like the mission e concept
in 2012. now if we look at the front of the audi there are definitely some obvious differences it's
got the more elongated style audi light and it's got a grille it doesn't need a grille there's no
engine of course just like the taikan but that's an audi trait so they've done it with that design
with this contrast color on the rs versions that's all blacked out that looks like an audi and that
looks like a porsche both from the front and from the back and that is really really clever styling
even though it's built on the same platform this is the porsche mission r this is an electric
concept racing car it's got over 1 000 horsepower and it is well i mean look at it it's amazing it
looks unbelievable and this is one of the really cool cars at the la auto show here on the porsche
stand so this just is unbelievable to look at i mean look at these tires let's have
a little walk around so let's look at these tyres we've got thick tires we've got these
aerodynamic covers for the wheels center locking we've got these air vents coming down here which
channel all the air reducing the low pressure and then we've got this monocoque and its massive wing
at the back this is a beautiful beautiful design please subscribe for more please smash the like
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