Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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I just put 2,500 miles on my new R2 Performance Launch Edition, driving it from Normal, Illinois, all the way home to Orlando, and in this one I walk through everything I ran into along the way, the good and the bad both.

0:00 Intro
1:44 The Route and Out of Spec Testing
2:26 Universal Hands-Free on the Highway
3:47 Where Hands-Free Gets Annoying
5:33 Noise, Vibration and Harshness
6:33 The Steering Wheel Vibration Quirk
7:44 R2 Build Quality vs My R1S
8:40 The One Real Defect I Found
11:01 RivianOS 2.0 First Impressions
12:26 The Software Bugs I Ran Into
14:42 The Garage Pairing Glitch
15:45 Range Estimates and Getting Home at 0 Percent
18:15 R2 vs R1S vs R1T
19:28 Wheels, Suspension and Ride
21:02 Why R2 Works for Families
22:04 Coming From Gas and Charging Costs
23:50 The Issues Other Owners Are Having
26:45 Why I'm Still Excited
27:39 Final Thoughts

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