J.W. Burleson photo / Boquillas del Carmen, Coah.

PHB

My photo
Brooklin, Maine, United States
We own a 1975 GMC Sierra Grande 15 in Maine and a 1986 Chevrolet Custom Deluxe 10 in West Texas. Also a pair of 1997 Volvo 850 wagons. Average age in the fleet is 28 years--we're recycling. I've published 3 novels: THE LAW OF DREAMS (2006), THE O'BRIENS (2012), and CARRY ME (2016). Also 2 short story collections: NIGHT DRIVING(1987) and TRAVELLING LIGHT (2013). More of my literary life is at www.peterbehrens.org I was a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study for 2012-13. I'm an adjunct professor at Colorado College and in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte. In 2015-16 I was a Fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The Autoliterate office is in Car Talk Plaza in Harvard Square, 2 floors above Dewey Cheatem & Howe. SUBSCRIBE TO THE AUTOLITERATE DAILY EMAIL by hitting the button to the right.

Thursday, December 16, 2021

The Rivian R1T: first draft


 Dan Neil's piece on the Rivian pickup was in Saturday's WSJ:
LAST SATURDAY, at the local Cars & Coffee, a gentleman stepped out of the crowd surrounding my borrowed Rivian R1T electric pickup to convey his skepticism. He didn’t like that electric cars were being “jammed down people’s throats,” he said.

Whoa, Nelly. Ford has nearly 200,000 reservations for Ford F-150 Lightning, excluding fleet; Tesla is reported to have more than a million reservations for Cybertruck; and Rivian—a Silicon Valley startup with manufacturing in Normal, Ill., that went public in November—has enough orders to keep them busy for the next two years. The consumer demand is real...

AL: Rivian just won Motor Trend's Truck of the Year award. 
Posted by autoliterate at 5:30 AM

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)