Rivian has long toiled in the EV salt mines. It's spent its formative years competing against the likes of Tesla while sorting out various start-up issues including tech, production and profitability; call them "growing pains." But when Rivian launched the all-new R1 platform earlier this year with the aim of making its popular R1S and R1T better to drive, cheaper and easier to build and slightly more efficient, we were impressed by the work that the company did under the skin.
