{"id":183001,"date":"2024-02-18T09:23:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T15:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/is-this-rivians-more-affordable-r2-electric-suv-spotted-in-the-wild"},"modified":"2024-02-18T09:23:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T15:23:20","slug":"is-this-rivians-more-affordable-r2-electric-suv-spotted-in-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/is-this-rivians-more-affordable-r2-electric-suv-spotted-in-the-wild","title":{"rendered":"Is this Rivian\u2019s more affordable R2 electric SUV spotted in the wild?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/is-this-rivians-more-affordable-r2-electric-suv-spotted-in-the-wild2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As we get closer to the official debut of <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/guides\/rivian\/\">Rivian\u2019s<\/a> more affordable R2, we are finally getting a better idea of what to expect. After teasing the model for the first time yesterday, Rivian\u2019s R2 was reportedly spotted filming in downtown LA shortly after.<\/p>\n<p>Rivian opened the R2 website yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2024\/02\/15\/rivian-teases-first-look-r2-deposits-start-100\/\">teasing the first look<\/a> at the new EV in an intro video. The new EV will be revealed on March 7 at its new flagship Laguna showroom.<\/p>\n<p>Although Rivian teased the new model leading up to its highly anticipated debut, we have yet to see what it looks like in full, until now. A <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2024\/01\/30\/first-look-rivian-rivn-r2-ev\/\">patent filed by Rivian<\/a> last month revealed a more compact electric SUV than the R1S with slightly smaller headlights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we get closer to the official debut of Rivian\u2019s more affordable R2, we are finally getting a better idea of what to expect. After teasing the model for the first time yesterday, Rivian\u2019s R2 was reportedly spotted filming in downtown LA shortly after. Rivian opened the R2 website yesterday, teasing the first look at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}