When we concluded our the latest drive of the 2022 Rivian R1T, the EPA nonetheless hadn’t finalized its range and performance figures for the electric pickup truck, so the finest we experienced to go on was the company’s internal estimate of all over 300 miles on a total cost. Now the EPA has weighed in soon after screening the 2022 Rivian R1T pickup and its R1S SUV sibling.
For one, Rivian’s estimate looks to have panned out. The EPA premiums the pickup for 314 miles of variety, when the SUV will come in at 316. And this is for R1T and R1S vans and SUVs in good shape with Rivian’s “more compact” battery pack.
The 135-kWh pack (133 kWh usable) is little only in regard to what the organization would like to supply in the long term it’s the major on the current market, at the very least until the gargantuan 200-kWh pack in the GMC Hummer EV reveals up.
The burning dilemma, of study course, is how the Rivian’s vary figures will examine to its rivals. The kinds that arrive to brain are Tesla’s large Design X SUV, and the future Ford F-150 Lightning. The fewer trucklike 2021 Product X Very long Assortment has a important gain in EPA screening, producing the most of its 100 kWh battery pack to give a whole of 371 miles of selection. Its Efficiency variant with the massive 22-inch wheels, nevertheless, falls just brief of the Rivian twins at 300 miles of rated vary. Both are extra economical over-all, with the Lengthy Variety reaching 32 kWh per 100 miles, and the Efficiency 39 kWh/100 miles. The Rivian R1T manages 48 kWh/100 miles, and the R1S 49 kWh/100 miles.
That’s apples-to-apples, with EPA figures. The Ford F-150 Lightning, meanwhile, isn’t on sale but and organization aspects on the whole-size pickup are hard to occur by. We don’t know its battery pack(s) size, and we you should not have EPA array estimates still. But Ford’s internal array estimates are definitely in the ballpark. Ford is concentrating on at the very least 300 miles of variety, which seems to be the new conventional for EVs in this dimensions and capacity course, and would put it ideal on par with the Rivian twins.
Not to mention the other truckish contenders in the functions, which are also even more off and have not been EPA analyzed, like the Tesla Cybertruck (lately delayed even more), the Bollinger B2, Canoo pickup, and some others. It is an interesting, crowded prospective area, but by beating them all to current market Rivian stands to truly established alone aside, and become the initial benchmark for the class. Looking at what we knowledgeable in the R1T firsthand, we’d say it is a significant bar to very clear.