A urologist plugged into the Rivian to unplug his patient's... you know.
A patient in Austin, Texas, apparently just couldn't wait for their scheduled vasectomy—the procedure that disconnects a man's babymaking tubes from his, ahem, member—after a power outage impacted his urologist's office. But without power, the minimally invasive outpatient procedure nonetheless wasn't looking doable. Except there wasIt seems the truck belongs to Dr.
We aren't doctors, so we can't tell you how much equipment, exactly, a vasectomy requires, but in Dr. Yang's photo evidence posted to twitter, we can see a yellow extension cord running from his Rivian R1T pickup's bed and through the"employees only" door at North Austin Urology. Each of those bed outlets can provide 1,500 watts, which doesn't seem like much for, well, medical equipment.
But per Dr. Yang, it seems the patient—who didn't feel like taking a different day off for the procedure and was game for trying something new—got snipped, and the electrocautery equipment and a small fan—the only devices needed—worked just fine. A quick googling of that phrase and"vasectomy" reveals that the tool, an electric cauterizer, is used at the end of the procedure, after the man's reproductive highway is split, to seal things off.
From an automotive and cultural perspective, however, if anyone was worried about electric pickup trucks figuratively sapping America's testosterone levels, well, this story's straying into the literal is probably your worst nightmare. On the other hand, Rivian's truck isn't the only new vehicle capable of delivering such power, nor is it the only electric vehicle to do so.
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