The Latest Breaking News from Rivian

A forum user said engineers in Normal, Illinois poured sand into the mechanism and nothing bad happened. So can this new version survive for more than a few months?

Startup EV companies have fallen out of favor with investors amid concerns over demand and margin compression. However, the long-term forecast for Amazon-backed RIVN looks positive, and it might join the ranks of major EV producers by 2030.

Between its polarizing polygonal design and plenty of production hiccups, the Cybertruck has had a long and rocky road to release. Its fate on the electric pickup market remains unclear.

Just don’t mention the Tesla Cybertruck because these Rivian owners are not fans.

EVs have 79 percent more problems than gas vehicles on average, according to Consumer Reports' reliability study.

Electric vehicles have proved far less reliable, on average, than gasoline-powered cars, trucks and SUVs, according to the latest survey by Consumer Reports, which found that EVs from the 2021 through 2023 model years encountered nearly 80% more problems than did vehicles propelled by internal combustion engines

CR’s 2023 Annual Auto Reliability Survey found that EVs have 79% more reliability problems on average than combustion cars.

Basically, this is the fix for the "fat finger" software error that killed the infotainment screens on Rivian EVs earlier this month.

The Rivian R1T, Teslas, and Chevy Bolt are the fastest-selling used EVs in the U.S., as per a recent study.