Loyal sleuths on the Rivian boards have identified the American EV automaker’s newest patent submitting for a “modular kitchen mounting equipment.” Might this be the subsequent iteration of Rivian’s defunct Camp Kitchen? If it will get made, it’s undoubtedly not going within the gear tunnel.

In the event you’ve been in and round a Rivian R1T pickup or R1S SUV, the engineering all through is one thing to marvel at. Along with delivering premium EVs, each aesthetically and performance-wise, Rivians come outfitted with among the coolest options within the trade.

Hidden flashlights, a detachable Bluetooth speaker within the heart console, and even an air compressor within the rear are all distinctive options homeowners can showcase to their buddies. Moreover, Rivian has developed a lineup of equipment to bolster the capabilities of its autos – add-on choices like a Yakima rooftop tent or the Tunnel Shuttle and Camp Kitchen initially designed for the R1T’s gear tunnel.

Final October, Rivian initiated a “short-term pause” on the manufacturing of the Camp Kitchen and Tunnel Shuttle, relaying that each could be seeing a redesign. By March 2023, nonetheless, each gadgets had been utterly faraway from Rivian’s Gear Store and haven’t returned since.

In response to a patent submitting this week, Rivian could have discovered its subsequent Camp Kitchen design – one radically totally different from the gear tunnel model. Test it out.

To start with, shout out to our buddies at Rivianforums.com, particularly consumer Kanundrum, who shared the pictures from Rivian’s August 17, 2023 submitting with the US Patent and Trademark Workplace. The “Modular Kitchen Mounting Equipment” is described as follows:

Methods and strategies are introduced herein for a mounting equipment configured to rearrange a retractable kitchen inside a automobile enclosure. The mounting equipment contains a primary slot configured to accommodate an alignment protru­sion of a kitchen module. The mounting equipment additional contains a second slot configured to accommodate a lock­ing meeting, which, when actuated right into a locking place prevents translation of the kitchen module alongside the second slot. The mounting equipment shall be organized on a backside aspect of the automobile enclosure and shall have a retractable kitchen module fixedly connected to the mounting equipment. The retractable kitchen module contains a kitchen module enclosure configured to maneuver from a saved place to an prolonged positioned, and a kitchen work floor configured to increase away from the entrance aspect of the automobile enclosure.

With a wider design in comparison with the unique Camp Kitchen that lived within the gear tunnel unique to the R1T, we are able to’t assist however marvel if R1S homeowners may also be capable of add this new piece of apparatus to their EV… if it really will get made.

Like all different automakers, Rivian recordsdata a number of patents within the US every year – lots of which by no means come to fruition. Nevertheless, provided that the automaker has already shared intentions to utterly revamp the Camp Kitchen, the prospect of this new design making it to the Gear Store web page leaves slightly extra room for optimism, however we’ve been damage earlier than, haven’t we Rivian homeowners?

We will see.