# @greencarreports on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2021-12-31T21:28:55.000+00:00

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Try to separate Americans from their trucks, and you’ve got trouble. 

The pickup is a staple of American culture, a symbol of self-sufficiency, and a tool for adventure. With the R1T electric truck, Rivian designed a product that builds on all three of those aspects, with some new twists that actually show off the strengths of going fully electric. It doesn’t defy convention like the Tesla Cybertruck; it embraces a format and levels it up in a way that truck owners will take note of—and as a finalist for Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2022, it's going to bring about a whole lot of change.

To Rivian, it’s a no-brainer that outdoorsy adventure types will embrace quiet, all-electric off-roading free of tailpipe emissions; and that they’ll want to be part of a Membership that encourages activities and a brand that nurtures preservation and giving back. It’s Jeep for card-carrying Sierra Club eco-warriors, with some Patagonia baked in from the start.

For the U.S. Big Three—GM, Ford, and Ram—we know an electric pickup was on the drawing board, a “maybe” for some undefined future development schedule and release date. But it was Rivian’s showing of a clearly production-bound prototype at the 2018 LA auto show—and a hand-me-down former Mitsubishi assembly plant in Illinois—that spurred them into action. With ensuing big-money investments from Amazon and Ford in 2019, it was “game on.”

Should the Rivian R1T be named Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2022? Is it a game changer?

Swing back on Monday, January 3 to learn which nominee takes the win.

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