{"id":36274,"date":"2026-06-12T10:16:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=36274"},"modified":"2026-06-12T10:16:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:16:05","slug":"payne-off-road-and-plugged-in-aboard-the-pioneering-rivian-r2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/payne-off-road-and-plugged-in-aboard-the-pioneering-rivian-r2","title":{"rendered":"Payne: Off road and plugged in aboard the pioneering Rivian R2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/06\/09\/PDTN\/90473743007-rivian-r-2-fr-34-ski.jpg?width=660&amp;height=372&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"The 2027 Rivian R2 Launch Edition scaled Utah Olympic Park's mountain with 3.6-second, 0-60 mph acceleration.\" width=\"516\" height=\"291\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"gnt_pg_img_cap\"><em>The 2027 Rivian R2 Launch Edition scaled Utah Olympic Park&#8217;s mountain with 3.6-second, 0-60 mph acceleration.<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em>Henry Payne, The Detroit News<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>Park City, Utah<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 The view of snow-dusted, 11,750-foot Mt. Timpanogos from the trails of Wasatch National Park in the Wasatch Mountains is breathtaking. It\u2019s a trail for hardcore, compact off-roaders \u2014 Jeep Wranglers, Ford Broncos, Chevy Colorado ZR2s. If you\u2019re into electric vehicles, few dare venture there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Say hello to the rugged, daring Rivian R2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Last decade, two startup EV companies wowed us with their automotive innovation. In 2012, Tesla Inc. introduced the lightning-quick Model S and Model X SUVs oozing with tech, style and eyeball-flattening speed. In 2017, Rivian Automotive Inc. introduced off-road doppelgangers \u2014 the stylish R1T pickup and R1S SUV with room, vroom and more cargo space than a Norwegian Cruise liner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/business\/autos\/2026\/06\/09\/payne-off-road-and-plugged-in-aboard-the-pioneering-rivian-r2\/90470283007\/\">Read full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2027 Rivian R2 Launch Edition scaled Utah Olympic Park&#8217;s mountain with 3.6-second, 0-60 mph acceleration. Henry Payne, The Detroit News Park City, Utah\u00a0\u2014 The view of snow-dusted, 11,750-foot Mt. Timpanogos from the trails of Wasatch National Park in the Wasatch Mountains is breathtaking. It\u2019s a trail for hardcore, compact off-roaders \u2014 Jeep Wranglers, Ford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36275,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36274\/revisions\/36275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}