EV start-up Rivian is the primary automaker to carry an electrical pickup to the buyer market, beating Tesla, Common Motors and others in what’s anticipated to be a hotly contested section within the years forward.

Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe on Tuesday tweeted that the corporate’s first R1T pickup for a buyer drove off the meeting line this morning at its plant in Regular, Sick.

“After months of constructing pre-production autos, this morning our first buyer automobile drove off our manufacturing line in Regular!  Our group’s collective efforts have made this second potential,” he mentioned. “Cannot wait to get these into the palms of our prospects!”

Images tweeted by Scaringe present employees cheering with a number of R1Ts on the meeting line.

A Rivian spokeswoman confirmed that the autos being produced are saleable. She declined to debate the corporate’s plans for ramping-up manufacturing, together with what number of vehicles had been produced at the moment, and who would be the first prospects to obtain the autos.

The start of manufacturing, which has been delayed a number of instances, comes weeks after the Amazon- and Ford Motor-backed firm filed a confidential draft registration kind for an IPO.

Rivian is anticipated to be the primary of a handful of automakers to supply an electrical pickup by subsequent yr. GM is anticipated to be subsequent this fall with the GMC Hummer EV pickup, adopted doubtlessly subsequent yr by EV start-up Lordstown Motors, Ford after which Tesla, which just lately pushed again deliveries of its Cybertruck from this yr to late-2022.