Rumor Has It Rivian Will See More Production Delays
Rivian may be experiencing more production delays. Maybe this is why it now apparently has a delivery-time estimator on its build site?
One forum user is hearing rumors that production has been delayed again, though he/she also notes that customers are being told that builds could happen in November, which is *checks notes*, this month.
The post itself is confusing, with the OP wondering if there are major delays, or its specific to certain orders, or the company is just being extra cautious in its estimates. Of course, one should always take rumors posted on a forum with a heap of salt.
If you know more, give us a shout.
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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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Is this post solely based on that 4 month old forum thread, or did you hear something more recent?
The forum post referenced is from FOUR months ago. There are delays from November to next March, with emails going out to launch edition holders yesterday.
They’ve only built, what, a couple of hundred trucks? If so, they are not in regular production and they do not have inventory of parts to build are a normal rate. Surely they weren’t planning to build 100 trucks a month. That would be a hobby, not a business. This is typical business behavior to pump the stock price.
If DeLorean had 14 billion $$ and if he did not betray original engineering team and did not twit every 5 minutes and built car in California, then may be he would succeed and even went with IPO and become $100 billion company.