Rivian’s electrical R1T is increase a repute for itself because the go-to rescue truck. In a video posted to social media by Rivian boss RJ Scaringe we are able to see one of many American-built pickups coming to assistance from an industrial truck that’s method heavier than the R1T’s official tow ranking.

The video seems to happen on some type of building website and opens with a view of the rear of the Rivian and a glimpse of a giant trailer forward of it. However it’s solely when the rescue is accomplished and the sheer enormity of the recovered automobile is revealed that we are able to recognize precisely how properly the R1T has executed.

As soon as the Rivian has had a few mild tugs on the tow strap to take up the slack it begins to maneuver easily backwards with no seen tire slip regardless of the mud on the street. We will’t see precisely why the truck was caught within the first place, however the R1T has to tug it up a reasonably main incline and makes your complete job as easy as if it was pulling a tiny, unladed dust bike trailer.

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The R1T is on the market with as much as 908 lb-ft (1,231 Nm) of torque in its most potent quad-motor configuration and has an official towing capability of 11,000 lbs (4,990 kg). However the load it hauled on this video exceeds that many instances over. CEO Scaringe was clearly proud to repost the video on his personal X feed, however we ponder whether Rivian’s guarantee division may be much less enthusiastic concerning the rescue (thankfully the R1T’s plate is blanked out, and hopefully earlier than Rivian bought its arms on the vid).

This isn’t the primary time we’ve see an R1T extract an enormous automobile from a sticky scenario. Again in February one other video emerged of a Rivian pulling an 11,000 lbs (17,240 kg) semi trailer again onto the asphalt after it had run off the street and bought caught in snow-covered dust.

H/T to Auto Evolution