Some e-car buyers are no longer impressed with Tesla, so they’re turning to the future of e-cars — including as-yet untested brands Lucid and Rivian.
“Teslas are more of the norm, but that’s because until now they were the only game in town,” says Guilford, Conn., resident Jeff Manfredonia, 41, who’s been waiting for his Rivian SUV since early 2020. “I think of it like this: maybe your dream was to buy a Porsche your whole life, but then when you’re finally able to, you have other options.”
But, Rettinger admitted, he has been enjoying the outright stares he gets whenever he takes out his Lucid Dream P, which was delivered two weeks before Christmas. “I feel like I get the luxury of a Mercedes plus the performance and, eventually, the technology of a Tesla,” Rettinger said. Way back in 2015, Austin’s Williams, the CEO of a private cloud and high-performance computing company, took a Tesla Model S for a spin, but didn’t think the sedan would meet his adventurous family’s needs.
Within two weeks of the brand revealing its new model, he put down the $1,000 pre-order deposit on an $80,000 truck. “The power, the performance and the unique system with four independent motors to give precise control over each wheel … no one else has that,” Williams said, even though he’s only driven one once. Still, the itch for the newest toy prevailed: He switched to the R1S SUV when that was unveiled days after the truck.
He’s still awaiting his truck but has already become a Rivian cheerleader: appearing on a community YouTube channel, Rivian Stories, with other fanatics and flying down to Atlanta in September 2020 for a pre-order holder event, where he met the company’s CEO, RJ Scaringe, 38.Rivian
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