⚡ EV Amazon just spilled more details on its Rivian electric delivery vans

[EmersonHart13]

Amazon Just Spilled More Details On Its Rivian Electric Delivery Vans

Amazon and EV partner Rivian are pulling back the curtain on their electric delivery vehicle, detailing some of the design and platform choices for what's…

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Amazon and EV partner Rivian are pulling back the curtain on their electric delivery vehicle, detailing some of the design and platform choices for what’s expected to eventually be a 100,000-strong fleet. Amazon announced it would be using a custom electric vehicle for future deliveries, designed by EV startup Rivian, back in September.

The plan was ambitious. Rivian will eventually produce 100,000 of the specially-designed all-electric trucks for Amazon, with the first deliveries expected to be made by the EVs in 2021. By 2022, the goal is to have 10,000 of the vans on the road; it’ll be 2030 before that full 100,000 are in action.

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[Stink Star]

Local delivery trucks (and school busses) are the strongest case for EVs. Hopefully this works out well

 

[EmersonHart13]

Agreed. This is a very exciting application

 

[CMNTMXR57]

Another idea... USPS are you watching? As you look to replace the LLV's, wouldn't this be a great PR move. Smaller versions like the LLV, all electric...

 

[10sec]

The USPS shouldn't even exist. They deliver bullshit to my mailbox every day that I immediately throw in the trash without even looking at it.

 

[EmersonHart13]

You should try recycling

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

Local delivery trucks (and school busses) are the strongest case for EVs. Hopefully this works out well

Pretty much any municipal vehicle is a strong case, they really shouldn't ever be leaving town limits, so it makes perfect sense if they are electric with even just a 100 mile range. Especially if all the municipal buildings have solar to cover the electric for charging and general usage.

 

[Yaj Yak]

that's some neat handwriting.

 

[FirstWorldProblems]

That is awesome. I'm excited for rivian to become an actual player in the EV market

 

[Yaj Yak]

That is awesome. I'm excited for rivian to become an actual player in the EV market

me too, i hope they do, hopefully they sprang for some new calculators in the marketing department.

 

[FirstWorldProblems]

Now if we could just get a decent electric motorcycle i'd be very enticed...best option out there right now now only has 100 miles of range at 55mph.

 

[EmersonHart13]

I feel like this should be here already?

 

[FirstWorldProblems]

I feel like this should be here already?

It is, and it's amazing...except for the range. It's basically a city commuter only at that range, kinda missing the mark for motorcycle riders imo. 82 mile range at 70mph, probably more like 70 miles at 85mph, i could barely make it to oakbrook to meet carter and bricher for lunch. No bueno

https://www.zeromotorcycles.com/zero-srf/

 

[Gone_2022]

I’m excited for this but I second what was said above. Waiting till 2030 to have 100,000 of these on the road? Seems like a really long timeline. I expected 2022 for 100k on the road. That’s more what it should be.

 

[FirstWorldProblems]

I’m excited for this but I second what was said above. Waiting till 2030 to have 100,000 of these on the road? Seems like a really long timeline. I expected 2022 for 100k on the road. That’s more what it should be.

They're still designing it, and it's a startup company. How quickly do you really think they could ramp up production? For reference....almighty Tesla only sold 50k cars in all of 2015. That's with all the investor funds in the world, huge gvt subsidies for the company and their customers, and ~6 years of manufacturing already under their belt.

Not to mention i'm sure all the distro centers probably need to be beefed up to handle the charging load. 100k by 2030 is pretty impressive IMO, especially because Rivian will be making other vehicles at the same time

 

[EmersonHart13]

It is, and it's amazing...except for the range. It's basically a city commuter only at that range, kinda missing the mark for motorcycle riders imo. 82 mile range at 70mph, probably more like 70 miles at 85mph, i could barely make it to oakbrook to meet carter and bricher for lunch. No bueno

https://www.zeromotorcycles.com/zero-srf/

I mean including over 100 miles of range .. I would have thought they were there by now

 

[BeerOrGasoline]

Allegedly the LiveWire does 146 miles (235 km) of city range or 95 miles (152 km) of combined stop-and-go and highway range.**

**As measured using the MIC City and MIC Combined (70mph) tests.

 

[Gone_2022]

They're still designing it, and it's a startup company. How quickly do you really think they could ramp up production? For reference....almighty Tesla only sold 50k cars in all of 2015. That's with all the investor funds in the world, huge gvt subsidies for the company and their customers, and ~6 years of manufacturing already under their belt.

Not to mention i'm sure all the distro centers probably need to be beefed up to handle the charging load. 100k by 2030 is pretty impressive IMO, especially because Rivian will be making other vehicles at the same time

I didn’t mean it as a slight to them, just that 10 years is a long ass time for 1 vehicle. I am afraid it will not be relevant once it finally gets mass produced.

In 8 years time we have the S,X, 3, Y (coming in March) a semi truck (not mass produced but in serious real testing right now) and a future roadster.

I used the above simply as an example, because in 10 more years tons of other companies will have products and to me it just felt like a lengthy timeline.