The battery-powered truck from startup carmaker Rivian is as comfortable as a luxury car with the performance of a serious off-road vehicle.
It's Rivian. Who?The startup truck maker's first R1T pickup come off the line in a former Mitsubishi plant in Normal, Illinois on Tuesday, company CEO RJ Scaringe announced in a tweet."After months of building pre-production vehicles, this morning our first customer vehicle drove off our production line in Normal!" he tweeted Tuesday.
Rivian priced the R1T at $73,000 and said it has already sold out the launch edition of the trucks. The company has not said how many trucks are part of the launch edition, and is now taking orders for January 2022 deliveries. It is significant that Rivian has succeeded in being first to market with its EV pickup, said Brian Moody, executive editor of AutoTrader, a unit of Cox Automotive, which is also an investor in Rivian."Electric trucks are a hot thing right now.
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