NightShiftNurse

Went to see the R2 at a Rivian showroom last weekend. It felt smaller in person than I expected — in a good way, honestly. More like something I could actually manage in a parking garage. The $57,990 real price is where I got off the bus. I was hoping the R2 was going to be the regular-person Rivian, and at that number it isn't, not for me.

The progression you described is exactly what happened to me. First two weeks I had the charging map open constantly. By month two I'd stopped thinking about range entirely. The anxiety is completely real and it completely goes away — those two facts aren't a contradiction, they're just the new owner experience in sequence.

Coming from a cold-climate Leaf owner — 40% winter range loss is brutal. At $42/cell for 280Ah EVE cells I keep thinking about whether a DIY LFP swap into the Leaf is realistic. I know it's not a beginner project. Has the community documented a clean BMS integration path for the Leaf shell, or is it genuinely too messy to be worth it?

The Leaf thermal architecture data matches exactly what I'm seeing. My 2020 Leaf (bought used at 28k miles) is already at 84% state of health via LeafSpy. In Minneapolis winters I watch capacity drop on cold mornings and recover as the pack warms — which apparently reflects degraded cells becoming more apparent in the cold, not just thermal suppression. The Recurrent data is sobering for anyone shopping used Leafs without realizing how much faster the air-cooled architecture ages.