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Rivian’s new fold-and-stow electric kitchen lets you cook atop your tailgate

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DATE POSTED:August 15, 2024
overhead view of the truck bed with a cooktop slab on top of the tailgate and a person cutting tomatoes on the cutting board side of the accessory with the induction stove frying veggies and a cable running to the side of the bed. Image: Rivian

Rivian is selling a travel kitchen accessory for the first time. This is not the comprehensive campsite device it advertised years ago (but never released) that slid out the side of the company’s electric R1T trucks. Instead, this new one is compact and lightweight, designed to sit on a vehicle’s tailgate.

Simply called the Travel Kitchen, it folds out to span the length of the tailgate and features two induction burners, a cutting board that stows away in an organizer drawer, and a pop-out bar for hanging a towel. The unit needs a three-prong 120V power source with 15A of current to work, which you can get from a Rivian vehicle, campsite power, or an F-150 Lighting, Cybertruck, or other vehicle with capable onboard power or a generator.

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