Are These Rivian’s New Autos Past The R2, R3 And R3X?

We anticipated Rivian’s Investor Day occasion to be a reasonably sedate one, stuffed with the standard monetary steerage and perhaps some updates on new automobiles just like the Rivian R2, R3 and R3X. Clearly, we thought incorrect. Rivian as an alternative shocked the enterprise world by saying a three way partnership with Volkswagen that will lend the European big its software program experience in alternate for a large funding of as much as $5 billion.

However issues go even deeper than that. In Rivian’s newest shareholder letter—and first noticed by BloombergNEF’s Corey Cantor on Threads right this moment—we see a picture with a number of attainable new Rivian fashions below a sheet that we hadn’t seen earlier than right this moment. See under for extra: 

A slide from Rivian’s launch.

On the left facet, we see the primary technology of Rivian EVs: the unique R1S, R1T and the vans utilized by Amazon. Then we’ve the second technology R1 automobiles, which InsideEVs drove not too long ago. However there’s one other automobile beneath a sheet above these; is it the R1X? The true mysteries might be discovered within the subsequent columns, with SUV-like shapes that appear separate from even the R2 and R3 revealed earlier this 12 months.

However two of the coated shapes appear to repeat, suggesting both that Rivian is individually itemizing a number of variants of the identical automobile or, probably, that the shapes are inventory “TBD” pictures that don’t symbolize the ultimate sizes and shapes of the deliberate automobiles. I might keep away from inferring an excessive amount of till we get extra readability. 

A Rivian spokesperson declined to touch upon our report. Presumably, these may then be future merchandise, as automaker spokespeople not often touch upon what’s coming subsequent. 

Sadly, we discovered little else about particular upcoming merchandise from Rivian’s investor name. However now we all know there’s some form of roadmap for the corporate’s subsequent crop of SUVs and vans, past even those which have already taken the web by storm.

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