Blog Rivian Trucks Spotted During Blue Origin Launch

William Shatner got to ride in a Blue Origin rocket on Wednesday, but he also got a ride in the new all-electric Rivian pickup.

Blue Origin’s flight on Monday included Shatner and three other astronauts. Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos personally drove the astronauts to launch in the Rivian R1T.

Bezos’ Amazon is a big investor in the electric vehicle startup, having plowed around $1.8 billion into the company. Rivian has also received an order of 100,000 electric delivery vans for Amazon.

Rivian, which just started delivering vehicles to customers, has filed to go public with an $80 billion valuation.

 

[WhiteWi]

Copy cats

 

[T3SLAROD]

Nice!!! Moving Tech Forward

 

[WhiteWi]

Nice!!! Moving Tech Forward

By stealing from Tesla lol

 

[T3SLAROD]

By stealing from Tesla lol

Stealing what? Tesla doesn't even have a Truck lol

 

[WhiteWi]

Stealing what? Tesla doesn't even have a Truck lol

Yeah, let’s ignore that Tesla suing them for stealing trade secrets.

 

[Venom21]

Yeah, let’s ignore that Tesla suing them for stealing trade secrets.

Which has not been proven...

 

[thesmokingman]

Which has not been proven...

I'm not leaning one way or the other but... you know its a given. Poaching happens for this purpose. Raja Kouduri didn't go to Intel for his calm, understated approach to marketing, nevermind that he failed to deliver the juggernaut he promised. He went to Intel to head their graphics division which coincidentally was what he did at AMD. Ofc the difference here is that Raja is a joke so AMD doesn't care.

 

[RobDickinson]

This is nothing new they've had them for months, they were used in the jeff who launch

 

[TexasTezla]

I am excited for Rivian. The more electric vehicle manufacturers the better! Choice is the way forward

 

[OrthoSurg]

Are they going to deliver the 100 000 Rivian Trucks to Amazon before regular customers?

 

[Merrill]

I do not think they are going to do all the Amazon Vans before the R1T. What bugs me is that they have my money and are pushing me to the back end of the line.

 

[kavyboy]

Are they going to deliver the 100 000 Rivian Trucks to Amazon before regular customers?

Only to customers and sellers who give/receive only 5-star reviews. I suggest you buy a lot of smaller, cheaper items to get your score up. At a future time, more trucks will be delivered to 4.9-star reviews, and so on.

 

[roblab]

I am excited for Rivian. The more electric vehicle manufacturers the better! Choice is the way forward

Yes! One of Tesla's original goals was to show the way for other manufacturers to follow, to move our gas engine culture toward electric. We're glad that Rivian has taken up the drumbeat, so that sooner rather than later we can get our transportation sector, the major contributor to global pollution, moved to electric.

 

[Brando]

Copy cats

Jeff Besos - why didn't you launch Rivian to chase down Elon's orbiting Roadster?
Sue Origin must not have enough lawyers, I guess.