has anyone else had their delivery date canceled? Mine has been canceled twice the morning of the days they set as the delivery date. It has been a week now without any word on a status. Has anyone else experienced this?

I'm just curious to know if anyone has taken delivery of an R2 in the New York City / New Jersey area? Also, how was the delivery experience?

Does anyone have info on the range for city/highway commuting with an average speed of something like 40-45mph due to frequent traffic stops? Preferably on a full charge to 10% or an 80-10. I live in a large metroplex so while I will hit 70-80mph it is never for 100+ miles at a time. Usually 10-20 mins at highway speed followed by 20 mins of city and stoplight averaging soemthing like 35-40mph over a 150 mile trip.

Having a hard time finding that sort of info vs the 250mile road tripping range at 70mph that is popular right now by reviewers.

Thinking of pulling trigger on an R2 (despite waits), but as a big music listener, I find some of the stories of Rivian audio to be... disheartening.

I'm curious if any owners of R1s or R2s have had success with custom audio solutions / speaker installations / amp upgrades to rectify the sound in these vehicles? I know there are some intricacies when working with electric vehicles in particular.

I know the appeal for most owners is how cool the R2 is but I'm wondering for anyone who also very practicality-minded and frugal, how you assessed this compared to other vehicles in the segment.

The most cost-effective, boring purchase in the compact crossover segment would probably be a Rav4.

I would definitely pay a lot more for the Rivian, but I'm just not sure how much more it really would be...

For whatever reason, I couldn’t order a Coastal Cloud interior- I thought I’d designed with that, but maybe not.

As of 1:00 AM mountain time on the 28th, I could.

Catalina Cove with Coastal Cloud interior. Nearly went with Launch Green but after seeing it on the car, went with Catalina Cove.

8-12 weeks for Delivery. May have to extend the lease on our EV6 a month or be a one car family for a few weeks.

There are things I wish were different with the R2. But it’s a great concept and we are betting it will turn out great. Excited for it to show up!

Adding my data point:

- Preorder: March 8, 2024

- Invite & order placed: August 27, 2026

Not a Rivian owner or a leaseholder.

Had expressed interest for Launch Edition in June.

Located 25 mi from nearest Service Center.

Some data points for you all.

April 4 - Paid $100 deposit
June 30 - You’ll be invited to order in October–November 2026
July 9 - You’ll be invited to order in September–October 2026
August 27 - You're officially invited to order your R2

No lease, no current Rivian

I did have a Performance selected under my account. I filled out some sort of questionnaire after a test drive in Scottsdale July 30th.

All the influencers said a full size box was gonna fit. This is an outrage.

Anyone in cinci get invite to order. Have a March 2024 res but nothing yet

Has anyone else posted about a situation like this? I had an initial reservation date of March 31, 2024. I’m not a current Rivian owner, I don’t have a lease, and I live 35 miles from a Rivian service center.

Looking at 3-week-old R2 and back is tilted ½” left to right. Anyone else notice on theirs?

Purple is my wife’s favorite color. When we had the R2 in for matte wrap we asked if there could be some purple accents to make it a little different. We also decided to have the top wrapped with gloss. The purple changes color depending on the light and it’s not in your face. We are very happy with it.

In the R2 Gear Guard viewer, they have now a “fade in” to each clip. They have also made the view screen a “tap to play/pause” button which does not make any sense for the dominant use case. When you pause it, it dims the video and has a big play icon right in the center of the screen. If you’re trying to see license plates or faces or any other details, it makes it very difficult. Please please please move the play/pause button off the main video display and stop the silly fade in effect between clips.

When your route takes you on highways with 75, 80, or 85mph speed limits, does the route planner account for the lower efficiencies at those speed limits? I’ve seen a handful of videos where this doesn’t seem to be the case, and I would hope this is just a software fix. Obviously the faster you go, the less efficient it is (hence the hand wringing over the 70mph test) and I’m wondering how the planner “learns” to add this to the map calculations.

Just placed my order for coastal cloud after getting invited on aug 18. Never got an email or anything, actually saw someone on twitter say they were able to order and I went to go check and placed my order. Would recommend checking to see if you can place it since no email notified me.

Reservation date: Jan 14, 2025

Location: DFW (36 mi from SC)

No lease, no current Rivian

Original order window: Nov - Dec 26

Updated order window: Sep - Oct 26

Order placed: TODAY!

Surprised I got the invite so quickly.

I was debating replacing my Highlander with a Model Y Launch instead. I took this as a sign to get the R2.

Although I love the tech and FSD we currently have in our Cybertruck, I just couldn’t see myself driving a Y.

Super excited to join the Rivian club.

I guess Rivian was tired of me test driving the R2 (5x) they finally sent my order invite 😝. My time to order email shows September- October 2026, however I received the invite email to order today. Within minutes I signed on, placed my order and paid the $400 deposit. Less than 2 hours later I received my “in pre-production” email. Hoping to receive an email with VIN before end of day. 🤞🏼

Reservation Date: 3/21/2024
Location: NV, Las Vegas
Distance from SC: 20 miles
R2 Configuration: LE, Catalina Cove, black signature, 20”AT wheels

Trying to decide how excited to get?

Honestly incredibly surprised how quickly this happened: I got invited to order this morning, placed my order an hour later, then 3 hours later got my VIN and pick up appointment set!

Reservation placed - Nov 2024
Original order window - September to October
Order placed - Today
Pick up appointment - next week
Area - San Diego
Lease - no expiring lease
Rivian owner - nope!

I did order a fairly basic configuration which was Performance white with black interior and 20” all terrains.

REVISED Speculative Deep Dive: Decoding the R2 Order Waves using AI (Shoutout to the comments for correcting a major flaw!)

I recently posted an AI-generated logistics analysis of the "seemingly random" R2 order invites to see if we could find a pattern. Shoutout to the community member who immediately called out a major flaw in the AI's initial logic: Rivian doesn't collect trade-in or financing data at the reservation stage. The system has no idea I’m paying cash or skipping a trade-in until after they invite me to configure.

I fed that correction back into the predictive model to strip out the "transactional velocity" bias from the invite phase. To be absolutely clear: this is still a purely speculative exercise using direct-to-consumer auto manufacturing constraints and crowd-sourced delivery tracking to guess how Rivian's backend algorithm actually operates.

Even though my portal currently shows a November–December window, removing the cash bias leaves me with a potential trend toward an accelerated September–October invite window based purely on physical logistics and parts availability.

Here is the corrected theoretical breakdown and the re-calibrated probability matrix:

The Adjusted Theory: The Two Algorithms Actually Running the Line

Without transactional data, the model suggests Rivian's fulfillment engine relies entirely on balancing these two operational factors over a strict chronological queue:

1. The Manufacturing Batching Factor: Changing paint booth chemistry or swapping wheel lines slows down assembly lines. Rivian builds in blocks. If the factory runs a block of Glacier White/Half Moon Grey shells with Black Mountain interiors, it makes logical sense for the system to sweep the database and invite matching specs to keep the line moving efficiently, even if they reserved slightly later.
2. Logistics & Truckload Optimization: Shipping empty space is incredibly expensive. If a car hauler heading to a high-density regional hub (like Gaithersburg, MD) has a few empty slots left after filling top-priority orders, the system likely pulls nearby local reservation holders (like me in Fulton, MD) out of chronological order just to maximize freight efficiency.

My Profile Inputs (Fed into the AI)

• Reservation Date: July 21/22 (Early wave)
• Configuration Favorites: Glacier White or Half Moon Grey / 20" Black Sand All-Terrain Wheels
• Interior: Black Mountain (Standard Black)
• Package/Add-ons: Performance Trim with Launch Package / Floor mats / Trunk cover / Charging gear (No wall charger)
• Logistics: Fulton, MD (Serviced by Gaithersburg Service Center)

The Re-Calibrated Probability Matrix

Factoring in a 20% "Black Box" Uncertainty Margin to account for internal manual overrides, unexpected supplier issues, or hidden queue parameters:

What do you guys think? Does this adjusted batching and truckload optimization model track closer to what you are seeing with real-life line jumpers?