Rivian Ships First Amazon Electrical Supply Vans to Europe
Amazon’s electrical supply vans, constructed by Rivian Automotive, parked outdoors the Amazon Logistics warehouse in Chicago. (Jamie Kelter Davis/Bloomberg Information)
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Rivian Automotive Inc. began delivering the electrical vans it makes for Amazon.com Inc. to Europe within the EV maker’s first industrial shipments outdoors the U.S.
Amazon will roll out greater than 300 supply vans within the coming weeks to German cities together with Munich, Berlin and Dusseldorf. Rivian’s largest shareholder and largest buyer has ordered 100,000 vans to be delivered by the top of the last decade.
Amazon already has deployed greater than 3,000 of Rivian’s vans in cities throughout the U.S. Whereas the producer initially agreed to ship 10,000 vans by the top of final yr, it fell wanting that concentrate on.
Amazon ranks No. 19 on the Transport Matters Prime 100 record of the biggest personal carriers in North America.
Irvine, Calif.-based Rivian is a pacesetter within the massive pack of American EV startups chasing Tesla Inc. Along with the supply vans, it makes two fashions for customers — the R1T pickup and R1S sport utility car — at its lone meeting plant in Regular, Ailing.
In December, the corporate shelved a plan to collectively construct electrical vans in Europe with Mercedes-Benz Group AG.
Rivian has turned a nook on manufacturing after a stop-start yr wherein its shares plummeted 82%. Amazon and different high-profile backers together with T. Rowe Value Group Inc. propelled the corporate to one of many largest listings in U.S. historical past in November 2021.
On July 3, Rivian reported second-quarter manufacturing of 13,992 autos, exceeding estimates, and reaffirmed plans to greater than double output to 50,000 autos this yr.
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