- A brand new moveable Journey Kitchen designed for Rivian R1 automobiles helps you to prepare dinner and camp
- Two induction burners plug into any 120-volt outlet with 15 amps
- It prices $1,400 and features a chopping board
Close to the bottom of Breckenridge Ski Resort in Colorado, a gaggle of journalists and Rivian engineers and executives gathered round a campfire. The hearth burned vivid sufficient to thaw the nighttime gathering, and overcome mid-pandemic issues about assembling indoors. Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe took a break from wrangling his small youngsters to welcome the small crowd for Rivian’s first car launch, then we gathered bowls and utensils to eat from the Rivian R1T, like an outdated chuck wagon on the Oregon Path.
Extending from the gear tunnel of the electrical pickup truck was a camp range. Chili and a veggie bean dish simmered on its two electrical burners. The chef’s implements sat within the tray that doubled as a washbasin beside it. The storage cabinets on the opposite aspect of the unit held dishes, spices, pans, and different kitchen implements. The night’s meal can be powered by the identical battery pack that supported the R1T up and across the Rocky Mountain move above 12,000 ft.
2022 Rivian R1T
The following morning, the camp was damaged down into reminiscence and the kitchen apparently gone. It was packed from view for its subsequent project of lunch within the area. Not within the mattress, or the spacious entrance trunk, however slid on electrical rails referred to as the Tunnel Shuttle into the R1T’s gear tunnel between the crew cab and the quick mattress. The gear tunnel stays one of many large packaging benefits of an electrical pickup truck, and the R1T’s most distinctive aggressive benefit.
2022 Rivian R1T
2022 Rivian R1T
2022 Rivian R1T
The retractable Camp Kitchen and electrical Tunnel Shuttle had been initially priced at about $6,500 collectively, however late in 2022, Rivian put a short lived pause on its cool all-in-one resolution that turned the R1T, together with the nonetheless obtainable rooftop tent, right into a cell residence. The pause turned everlasting, and the explanations Rivian stopped providing it had been as murky as a slop bucket.
Now Rivian has a brand new two-burner induction range dubbed the Journey Kitchen, a seeming stopgap from what Rivian initially envisioned for the R1T as an all-in-one journey car. Introduced on Thursday, the Journey Kitchen collapses to suit into the gear tunnel, or the frunk, or most trunks, so it is not restricted to the R1S or R1T, even when it was designed for them.
Rivian’s moveable Journey Kitchen designed for the R1T and R1S
Rivian’s moveable Journey Kitchen designed for the R1T and R1S
Rivian’s moveable Journey Kitchen designed for the R1T and R1S
Rivian’s moveable Journey Kitchen designed for the R1T and R1S
It plugs right into a 120-volt outlet with 15 amps of present, and the dual burners share as much as 1500 watts that is adjustable on the touch-capacitive management panel. Rivian guarantees it heats meals rapidly and with out smoke, and it is designed to put flat on the R1T’s folded-down tailgate and the R1S’s cut up tailgate or on any flat floor.
A Rivian spokesperson advised Inexperienced Automotive Experiences that operating the burners at full energy for an hour would draw 1 to 1.4% of battery capability, and it may be used concurrently with the on-board air compressor or different equipment. It is moveable, and the journey bag has handles to simplify shifting it, nevertheless it weighs about 41 kilos complete, so it is not as straightforward as sliding it out and in of the gear tunnel.
Rivian’s moveable Journey Kitchen designed for the R1T and R1S
It prices $1,400 and features a chopping board, drawer organizer, and dangly little LED lights. Why not get a less expensive aftermarket one? It will not have that Rivian cachet or custom-made match.
Though Rivian dodged our query on what occurred to the unique Camp Kitchen, Rivian seems to be addressing it. A patent utility revealed on July 18 reveals a reimagined Camp Kitchen with an built-in grille. The unit slides into the gear tunnel.
