Rivian's platform approach to electric vehicles helped it raise $3B this year

Re:Rivian's platform approach to electric vehicles helped it... by nickik on Saturday December 28, 2019 @03:15PM (#21901448)

The only actual reason I have heard is that Cybertruck makes it harder to load from the side.

However I have heard why the utility of the frunk, integrated Ramp, the automatic cover, active suspension and so on would not make up for that.

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Re:Rivian's platform approach to electric vehicles helped it... by x3haloed on Saturday December 28, 2019 @04:00PM (#21901694)

Right. You tell me which truck you'd rather load boxes and furniture into. https://www.geek.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/TeslaElectri...

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Re:Rivian's platform approach to electric vehicles helped it... by jsight on Saturday December 28, 2019 @09:54PM (#21903597)

The issue is that the comparison is to the Rivian which only has a 4.5 ft bed. The rear 4.5 feet of the Cybertruck isn't too hard to access, its the front 2 feet that is problematic.

The rivian doesn't have that feature.

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Re:Rivian's platform approach to electric vehicles helped it... by gamblor956 on Sunday December 29, 2019 @02:11AM (#21904564)

For loading furniture, the rear of the Cybertruck is extremely difficult to access, because you can only access it from the rear of the vehicle.

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Re:Rivian's platform approach to electric vehicles helped it... by jsight on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @05:09PM (#21985590)

Again, I was comparing to the Rivian. I'm not convinced that the sail sides on the CT are appreciably higher than the Rivian over only the rear 4.5 feet. The Rivian is not a more practical vehicle by any stretch of the imagination.

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Re:Rivian's platform approach to electric vehicles helped it... by nickik on Saturday December 28, 2019 @05:40PM (#21902316)

The Cybertruck can go much lower then most trucks because of active suspension. So clearly the Cybertruck.

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