adminAnother day, another overpriced electric truck for wealthy liberals who want to feel good about saving the planet. Rivian just unveiled their new R1T Gen 2 Quad pickup truck with a whopping 1,025 horsepower and a price tag starting around $120,000. That’s more than most hardworking Americans make in two years.
This fancy electric truck can go from zero to sixty in just 2.5 seconds, which sounds impressive until you realize it’s completely useless for actual truck work. Real Americans who need trucks for hauling, farming, and construction don’t care about acceleration times. They care about reliability, affordability, and not being stranded when the battery dies in the middle of nowhere.
The truck gets about 400 miles of range, but that drops to 370-380 miles when you actually use all that power they’re bragging about. Meanwhile, a regular gas truck can be refueled in five minutes at any gas station, not hours at some charging station that might not even work. This is the reality of electric vehicles that the green energy crowd doesn’t want you to know.
Rivian packed this truck with all sorts of high-tech gadgets like hands-free driving and something called a “kick turn” feature. It even has a hidden flashlight in the door and a removable speaker, because apparently wealthy California liberals need their trucks to be fancy toys. Regular truck owners just want something that starts every morning and gets the job done.
The company is targeting Tesla buyers and other electric vehicle enthusiasts who have money to burn on green virtue signaling. These are the same people who lecture working families about climate change while driving around in $120,000 luxury trucks. The hypocrisy is stunning but not surprising.
This truck represents everything wrong with the electric vehicle push being forced on Americans. It’s expensive, impractical, and designed for people who don’t actually need a truck for real work. Meanwhile, the Biden administration keeps pushing policies that make gas vehicles more expensive and harder to buy.
American taxpayers are subsidizing these overpriced electric toys through government incentives and tax breaks. We’re literally paying for rich people to buy luxury trucks while struggling families can barely afford to fill up their gas tanks. This is what happens when politicians prioritize green politics over working Americans.
The Rivian R1T might impress wealthy tech workers in Silicon Valley, but it’s a slap in the face to real truck owners across America. Give us reliable, affordable vehicles that don’t require government handouts or virtue signaling. That’s what American workers actually need, not another overpriced electric status symbol.
