That process is helped by Rivian's new system architecture introduced in the Gen 2 R1 platform last year. This not only greatly simplified the architecture of the vehicles, cutting cost and weight, but it enabled far more finite control over those motors.

Owners of the original four-motor Rivian R1T and R1S that were waiting for the promised Kick Turn feature (basically a 360-degree “tank turn” by another name) might be real frustrated in a minute. The answer to what surely many first-generation Rivian R1T and R1S Quad owners are now Googling is: to activate the feature on their old trucks,

Just because you don't need a particular car doesn't mean you won't still want it, and I promise you'll want the quad-motor Rivians.