R1S, R1T, R2 and the Adventure Network — Rivian coverage from the factory floor to the trailhead.
Rivian filed to sell 75 million new Class A shares after Monday’s market close, a deal worth roughly $1.5 billion at the day’s $20.14 closing price. The company says the proceeds will fund general corporate purposes, including the equity contribution requirements tied to its Department of Energy (DOE) loan for the Georgia factory. The timing…
Rivian delivered 12,194 vehicles in the second quarter of 2026, up about 14% from the 10,661 it delivered a year ago and comfortably ahead of the 10,518 analysts expected, according to estimates compiled by Visible Alpha. And Rivian paired the beat with a bigger statement: it raised its full-year 2026 delivery forecast from 62,000-67,000 to…
Rivian began handing the first R2 mid-size SUVs to customers on June 9, and within days the vehicle’s lease quotes, not its driving reviews, became the story. A 36-month lease on the R2 Performance lists at $829 a month on Rivian’s own configurator, and a lighter down payment pushes the figure past $1,000. EVXL reported…
An EF-1 tornado struck Rivian’s Normal, Illinois assembly plant on the night of April 17, 2026, tearing open the roof and a wall of the building where the company assembles the R2, its make-or-break mid-size SUV. Rivian confirmed the damage to TechCrunch, which first reported the company’s confirmation and the internal staff email, and said…
EPA certification documents for the Rivian R2 have leaked via Rivian Forums, and the range numbers beat the company’s own projections. The Performance trim on 21-inch all-season tires earned an EPA-estimated 335 miles of range, five miles more than the 330-mile figure Rivian published at the March SXSW launch. Jonathan M. Gitlin at Ars Technica…
Two years ago, Rivian secured 68,000 reservations in 24 hours on the strength of one number: $45,000. Today at South by Southwest in Austin, the company officially launched the R2 — at $57,990. The affordable Rivian people reserved is coming. Just not until late 2027, and no longer “at” $45,000 but “around” it. That one-word…
The most revealing thing about the Rivian Adventure Department (RAD) is not what it builds. It is that Rivian felt the need to formalize it at all. Rivian announced RAD on March 1, 2026, as first reported by Gizmodo. The company described it as a skunkworks operation, a small team doing lower-profile work that has…
The last time Rivian beat earnings expectations, in November 2025, October EV sales were already in freefall. The stock popped, the headlines cheered, and then reality showed up in the form of a 31% Q4 delivery plunge. Today’s Q4 report reads differently. Not because the backward-looking numbers are pretty, but because the forward-looking guidance just…
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