I took supply of a Forest Inexperienced 2022 Rivian R1T final week and recorded your complete supply course of to provide the InsideEVs group an thought of how Rivain fingers over new autos to its clients.
Since Rivian makes use of a direct gross sales mannequin within the US, just like how Tesla and Lucid promote autos, it would not have dealerships to ship new autos to its clients. Due to this fact, I believed viewers would have an interest to see simply how Rivian supply takes place. I did attain out to Rivian a few days earlier than the supply and instructed them that I want to make a video of the occasion, and ensure they did not have any objections, not that I anticipated them to.
Forest Inexperienced Rivian R1T and a Black Ford F-150 Lightning
The response was easy: “Completely superb to report the expertise”. Nevertheless, I used to be nonetheless slightly uncertain in the event that they knew that I needed to mic the supply specialist and do an hour-long deep dive. However I additionally did not need them to ship somebody that is not one of many typical supply individuals simply because it was going to be recorded, so I left it at that and simply hoped the particular person could be amenable.
Nicely, I lucked out and the Rivian supply specialist, Shade, not solely agreed to let me mic her as much as report the supply course of, however she knocked the supply out of the park. She spent virtually two hours explaining every part to me and answering all of my questions.
If the entire Rivian supply specialists are as nicely ready and as nice as Shade was, I imagine there might be plenty of glad R1T and R1S clients, nicely, so far as their supply goes.
The video begins as I anticipate the R1T to reach and transitions to Shade driving it up my driveway on a flatbed truck (She drives a truck additionally, what cannot she do?). I then signal the required paperwork and we start the supply occasion contained in the R1T, the place Shade goes over the entire inside options and infotainment settings.
After the inside lesson, we take a look at the frunk and moveable charging cable earlier than we head to the again of the R1T to discover the mattress, together with the ability tonneau cowl, air compressor, tailgate, spare tire, and 120-volt retailers.
We end up with the gear tunnel and a take a look at the inside storage compartments. The video is lengthy, virtually an hour, however it offers Rivian reservation holders and followers an thought of how the corporate delivers its autos, in addition to a function deep dive. I added chapters so viewers can bounce to the sections that they like to view.
So take a look at the video and let up know what you suppose in addition to what we missed within the remark part beneath.
