. Compared to the Bosch-developed one-motor-per-wheel AWD system , Rivian says the Enduro is 35 percent less costly to implement, which is a pretty big deal.
Naturally, two fewer motors does mean that the Enduro system doesn’t have as much power as its older Origin brother. The new setupgenerates 533 horsepower in base form and up to 665 hp and 829 pound-feet of torque on the Performance model, compared to the staggering 835 horsepower of the older Origin trucks. Yet, I seriously doubt that Enduro-equipped Rivian owners will have problems coaxing their trucks through traffic.
We ambled around Rivian’s short off-road test track first in an Enduro-equipped truck, then in the Origin quad-motor truck. At first, I couldn’t tell too many distinctions between them; the two trucks felt nearly the same around most of the track. In other words, both of them were exceptionally capable. But, the real differences didn’t show up until the rock-crawling segment of the track.
But in general, the dual-motor does everything just as well as the quad-motor truck. It goes farther and is nearly as fast, and it’s cheaper to buy, cheaper to make, and less complicated. They don’t even look any different; the only visual signifier between the two trucks are the demure silver brake calipers on the Enduro, compared to the bright yellow ones on the Origin.that once made such duds as the Mitsubishi Endeavor, I couldn’t help but wonder what the point of the quad-motor truck was.