Any self-respecting off-road car comes with spectacular water-fording functionality, one thing Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe confirmed off in a current video posted to Twitter. It exhibits a Rivian R1T wading via water almost as much as the highest of its hood.

Rivian’s web site lists a wading depth of greater than three toes however, because the saying goes, seeing is believing.

The EV startup additionally quotes a 34-degree method angle, a 29.3-degree departure angle, a 25.7-degree breaker angle, and a most of a whopping 14.9 inches of floor clearance for the R1T electrical pickup truck, its first manufacturing car for the retail market. 

Our engineers going for a fast dip! pic.twitter.com/1FYukLXXZl

— RJ Scaringe (@RJScaringe) August 29, 2021

Rivian plans to launch the R1S SUV shortly after the R1T. Based mostly on the identical skateboard platform because the pickup, the R1S will get the identical quoted wading depth and floor clearance, plus seating for seven. Different off-road-relevant specs embrace a 34.3-degree method angle, a 33.7-degree departure angle, and a 28.9-degree breaker angle.

Each automobiles had been unveiled in idea type on the 2018 Los Angeles auto present, and started taking pre-orders late final 12 months. The corporate has raised $10.5 billion since 2019, and counts Ford and Amazon as buyers. It additionally has vehicle-development offers with these corporations—together with electrical supply vans for Amazon—and seems to be planning an preliminary public providing (IPO).

But other than a handful of these Amazon vans, Rivian hasn’t delivered any automobiles to clients but. R1T and R1S deliveries had been initially scheduled to begin towards the tip of 2020, however the coronavirus pandemic pushed that again to summer time 2021. Rivian then confirmed one other delay, pushing the primary R1T deliveries to September 2021, with the primary R1S deliveries anticipated to begin shortly thereafter.