Any self-respecting off-road vehicle comes with impressive water-fording capability, something Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe showed off in a recent video posted to Twitter. It shows a Rivian R1T wading through water nearly up to the top of its hood.
Rivian’s website lists a wading depth of more than three feet. The EV startup also quotes a 34-degree approach angle, a 29.3-degree departure angle, a 25.7-degree breaker angle, and a maximum of a whopping 14.9 inches of ground clearance for the R1T electric pickup truck, its first production vehicle for the retail market.
Aside from a handful of those Amazon vans, Rivian hasn’t delivered any vehicles to customers yet. R1T and R1S deliveries were originally scheduled to start toward the end of 2020, but the coronavirus pandemic pushed that back to summer 2021
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