Rivian

Rivian said it produced 4401 vehicles in the second quarter of 2022, a 72 percent increase over the previous quarter.

The company will still need to churn out 18,046 vehicles over the next eight months if it’s to meet its goal of 25,000 built this year, or roughly 9,023 vehicles per quarter. It also delivered 4,467 vehicles to customers, a 267 percent increase over the first quarter. The company announced that it had produced 4,401 vehicles during the second quarter of 2022, a 72 percent increase over the previous quarter.

Rivian Automotive Inc delivered 4467 vehicles in the second quarter, nearly four times more than the preceding quarter, as the electric-vehicle maker ...

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Rivian, which won the race to deliver the first all-electric pickup truck, is launching its SUV amid major questions about whether it can deliver on its ...

"The reason Rivian exists is precisely for that challenge." The trucks are part of Amazon's plan to go carbon neutral by 2040. MotorTrend magazine named it 2022's Truck of the Year, raving that it redefines the genre. "I think he's maybe forgetting some of the things that Tesla themselves went through. From the front, the truck looks like it drove off the screen of a Pixar movie. The rise of electric vehicles, or EVs, comes as more Americans look to ditch the pump and go electric, partly due to soaring gas prices.

Rivian's R1S SUV is a highly capable, expertly designed electric vehicle with an impressive software stack. But the biggest challenge for the company will ...

The problem, of course, is that contending in the car market requires having cars to sell, and Rivian will have precious few R1S units available. One day of driving under the watchful eyes of Rivian staffers isn’t enough to say the R1S is a contender, but it feels like one. The R1S configured with the standard battery pack and dual motors is rated at 260 miles of range; the $6,000 extended pack bumps that up to 320 miles. The R1S is very nice inside, but doesn’t quite feel like a luxury SUV, even if the most natural competitors in this price range are from Land Rover, BMW, and Mercedes. The materials are well-chosen, things are nicely laid out, and nothing feels cheap, but you’re clearly paying the money for the drivetrain and the fancy software. An SUV that’s bigger than a BMW X5 doing 0-60 in well under four seconds is not a normal thing to experience, but the R1S can do it without drama at any moment. From the front door forward, the R1S is the exact same truck as the R1T. The only differences, according to Rivian communications manager Shaheen Karimian, are a slight bit of additional silver trim on the outside, and the addition of a button on the wiper stalk to control the rear window wiper. The graphics are all handled by Epic’s Unreal Engine, which allows for various photorealistic renders of the truck to appear on the displays, and virtually everything you can think of is controllable from the touchscreen. Compared to traditional off-roaders, which generally require managing the transmission and differentials through various four-wheel-drive modes to make sure power from the engine is getting to the right wheel at the right time, the R1S was hilariously simple to drive. No one at Rivian seemed to be under any illusions about how many R1S owners would actually take these $90,000 SUVs off-road; like Land Rover and Jeep, the off-road capability is part of the appeal but rarely part of the experience. If a traditional automaker is roughly analogous to a Windows laptop maker, Rivian (and, yes, Tesla) is much more like Apple: in total control of hardware and software. I bring all this up because while the R1S is a very nice three-row electric SUV with the ability to fit five carseats in it, what really sets it apart is the software experience. The most important shared piece between the R1T and R1T is Rivian’s built-from-scratch hardware and software architecture.

Electric-vehicle startup Rivian Automotive said it produced more than 4,000 vehicles in the second quarter and that it remains on track to build 25,000 vehicles ...

Although still small, the market for electric pickups is expected to grow rapidly over the next few years. The company said Wednesday it still expects to make 25,000 vehicles this year. The company said last year in its IPO roadshow that it expected to build 50,000 vehicles in 2022.

Rivian Automotive Inc.'s shares surged after the electric-vehicle maker reaffirmed its annual production target and revealed accelerated output in the ...

The manufacturer, backed by founder and Chief Executive Officer R.J. Scaringe, also delivered 4,467 vehicles to customers in the second quarter. The EV startup built 4,401 vehicles in the period, according to a statement Wednesday, up from 2,553 in the first quarter.

The electric automaker Rivian said Wednesday that it produced 4401 vehicles in Normal between April and June — a 72% increase from the previous three-month ...

Thank you to our team & suppliers.— RJ Scaringe (@RJScaringe) July 6, 2022 “Supply chain and production are ramping!” Scaringe tweeted. Rivian, which is backed by Amazon and went public in November, has made nearly 8,000 vehicles since production started in September.

Rivian, the Amazon-backed electric truck and van maker, already has an award winning pickup in production, the R1T. Now it's coming out with an SUV, ...

The more rugged tires were louder on the road and the SUVs steering felt less responsive. The R1S can lift itself up on its wheels to get up to 15 inches of ground clearance -- and, with no need for an engine to breathe air, it can drive through as much as three feet of water, according to the company. Overall, though, the interior still ends up looking nice and not, as on Tesla models that are also dominated by a screen, just barren, as if things are missing. I drove a roughly $95,000 R1S on paved roads out to a rugged off-road course in New York's Catskill Mountains. On the road, with big 22-inch wheels and Pirelli tires designed mostly for pavement, the R1S had a mildly firm but controlled ride. One optional accessory to go in it is a cooktop with a complete set of cookware, metal plates and flatware that slides out of the gear tunnel ready for camp cooking. The R1T pickup features a unique "Gear Tunnel" that runs the width of the truck underneath the cargo bed with a door on either end. It's hard to imagine any owner putting that sort of investment through the kind of hazards I braved but, if you care, be assured that it can do stuff you will probably never want to attempt. After arriving at the private off-road driving course, I switched over to an R1S that had 20-inch wheels and more off-road capable tires. With a total of 835 horsepower, the R1S accelerates outrageously quickly. The R1S is marketed as an electric alternative to rugged SUVs with truck-like engineering like Range Rovers and Jeeps but with technology that makes clambering over boulders relatively easy. Another thing the R1S has more of than the R1T, though, is competition. Even Mazda, known far more for on-pavement driving, now has the CX-50, a more outdoor-styled sibling to the CX-5 crossover.

Like with its R1T pickup, startup automaker Rivian's electric SUV model impresses on- and off-road. But be prepared to pay up and wait awhile.

Owing to its shorter wheelbase and better departure angle compared with the pickup, Rivian sees the R1S as the stronger off-roader of the two. Rivian is attempting to ramp up production to reach its goal of building 25,000 EVs by the end of the year—although given that the company says it has received 90,000 orders for (both) R1 models, that still leaves a lot of people waiting. Ride quality is firm, and the R1S has a planted feel on the road. The R1S comes standard with a seven-passenger setup courtesy of a three-place second-row bench seat and a two-passenger third row. Given the similarities between the R1T and R1S, we weren't surprised to find that the SUV possesses many of the same qualities. The first examples of the R1S SUV are now starting to hit the ground as well.

First drive of the Rivian R1S around upstate New York. We tried out the third row, going off-road, and many other tricks in the do-everything SUV.

I realize the company is on the upward path when it comes to scaling and has a smaller pack and two motor options coming down the pike. Sure a Tesla Model X Plaid will seat seven and go 0-60 faster, but it doesn’t have nearly the storage nor will it go off-road. The vehicle itself is almost perfect, but the software is still a ways behind Tesla in terms of functionality. Like I said before, I still don’t understand Rivian’s decision to cut 17 inches off the size of the R1S (from the R1T). It would have given the third row an extra foot of legroom without forcing the second row to move up. The seat release is on top of the second-row seat back for easy exit and entry. I spoke with a few of Rivian’s designers and didn’t really come away with a firm understanding of why they cut the size of the R1S short. If that weren’t enough, we got some seat time in the R1T to try the Drift Mode settings with a professional driver. I’ve submitted my proposal to Rivian for them to refrigerate the front trunk for groceries and camping, but I’m not sure if the company thinks it is worth the battery hit. With the glass ceiling and USB-C and AC options, there’s a pretty good chance you can leave the tent at home and just chill in camping mode all night. They wanted to have a bench that you could sit on and still be covered by a top door completely in case of rain. - The (controversial and polarizing) chrome wraparound on the top of the cab. Electrek named the R1T the 2021 vehicle of the year, and to say we gushed over it might be an understatement.

NORMAL (Heart of Illinois ABC) - Rivian said Wednesday it produced just over 4,400 electric vehicles at its plant in Normal during the just-completed second ...

Second quarter results aren’t available yet, but Rivian said it produced 4,401 vehicles in the quarter running from April 1 to June 30. That’s a 72% increase from the first quarter when Rivian said it made 2,553 vehicles. News of Rivian’s production gains helped boost its stock price by 10.4% on Wednesday to $29.66 per share.

Understated, powerful and utterly capable off-road, Rivian's three-row electric SUV is a luxurious way to get off the beaten path.

Each row of seating has a ton of room, and I could comfortably plant myself in the third row without having to adjust the seat in front of me. Driving the R1S, the biggest thing I noticed is the attention to detail. If getting going is a blast in the R1S, so is coming to a stop. While a Model X Plaid may outsprint a Rivian in a drag race, the top Tesla commands $50,000 over a loaded R1S — and doesn’t have any off-road prowess to show for it. Off-roading an EV is taking the stairs into the pool, rather than doing a cannonball — it’s a gentler way to get acclimated. You become one with the seatback, spine mashed into to the contours of the leather. The S comes in at just under 201 inches long, with its 121-inch wheelbase just over a foot shorter than the T’s, and the SUV gives up just a bit of height — 77.3 inches to the truck’s 78.2-inch roofline. As with the pickup truck, Rivian went to the trouble of selecting some fantastic paint colors for its new SUV — including bright blue, searing red, a fantastic turmeric yellow and two shades of green. The R1S is a three-row luxury SUV, riding on a short-wheelbase version of the platform that underpins the R1T pickup. Eventually, two versions of the R1S will be available: one with two motors (one at each axle) and one with four, a motor at each wheel. But despite that clean, understated exterior, the R1S is incapable of flying under the radar. While the R1S shares much of its body and drivetrain with the company’s R1T pickup, the S is a brand-new vehicle.

The ramp-up means that the EV company is on track to meet production goals for the year.

What do you make of this news surrounding Rivian and its production goals? The news sent the companies stock upwards some 11 percent on Wednesday. While meeting its 25,000-unit production goal this year would serve the stock price and consumers well, it’s nowhere near what the plant in Normal, IL, is capable of. During the first quarter, the all-electric pickup truck builder saw 2,553 vehicles roll off of the production floor.

Are its shares undervalued? It makes an amazing electric truck but it can't make enough of them to fill the demand. Until Rivian can deliver more than it ...

In short, Rivian has time to solve the production problems that are keeping it from meeting potential demand. To meet that 25,000 EV target, Rivian will need to ramp up production in the second half of 2022. I would not jump into these shares until Rivian shows that it can consistently exceed investor expectations. He is optimistic about the Battery Elective Vehicle (BEV) industry and thinks Rivian can solve its production problems. CBS News' senior environmental correspondent Ben Tracy raved about the vehicle in a test drive. On July 6, Rivian reiterated that amount.

Rivian Automotive (RIVN) shares rose more than 10% to $29.66 on July 6, after the electric vehicle (EV) maker issued a positive update on its production ...

In addition to boosting investor confidence in the EV stock, the rising production also promises to put Rivian on the track to profitability. A major challenge that EV makers face as they seek to accelerate production is the shortage of parts. Tesla plans to double production at its China plant to be able to produce more than a million cars annually. Rivian reiterated its target of producing 25,000 vehicles in 2022. The company is currently producing the vehicles at its only factory in Illinois. It plans to build another factory in Georgia to produce its second generation of vehicles, or the R2 models. Rivian is among Tesla’s ( TSLA) major challengers in the EV business.