Rivian to Add Delivery Time Estimator to Configurator
Rivian is planning on adding a feature to its online configurator that estimates the time of delivery of the customer’s vehicle.
It’s mild news, to be sure, but it’s the week of Thanksgiving.
And hey, ask any Ford Bronco buyer if they’d have appreciated this feature and I bet the answer would be a resounding yes.
The estimator should be online by year’s end.
[Image: Rivian]
Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.
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Are this estimators have "Infinity" value or NaN? Note that natural numbers form a countable infinity but do not include infinity itself.
Last time I looked the cheaper Tesla models were quoting June 2022 delivery dates. I have a hybrid Ford Maverick on order. Put the order in with the dealer in October. No one has any idea when it will actually show up but 5-6 months was the rough suggestion. I’m thinking I’ll be lucky to see it by June. Thus the lead times for the cheapest Ford and the cheapest Tesla are roughly in alignment at the moment. Now if you haven’t already ordered your hybrid Maverick you are out of luck because Ford shut down orders for 2022 model year hybrids on November 15th. They aren’t intending to take 2023 model year orders until early summer. Crazy times.
I would consider ordering a car sight unseen from an established brand, but not from a startup like Tesla or Rivian. I would want to inspect and drive the actual car I'm paying for in that case.
Curious when they’ll add this. Mrs. Astigmatism went all google-eyed over the R1T when she saw it online a month ago - an electric truck that she can rack her surfboard on top of, throw her wetsuit in the back of, etc. Based on what I’ve been reading on the Rivian forums it looks like folks are resigned to mid-2023 delivery dates for new orders.