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Amazon says it has ‘over a thousand’ Rivian electric vans delivering in the US

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A year or two ago I had doubts whether this company was making anything. Now I'm seeing Rivians on a daily basis.

I wonder how many of these have been delivered in Bay Area. I see at least two Rivians every single day. I took a ride with a friend of mine in his Rivian and I was very pleasantly surprised. The car had definitely a wow effect on me.

It's really exciting to see a good EV that doesn't have the Tesla/Musk cult of personality baggage. I just want a good daily driver that doesn't try to be humanity's savior... looking at the Rivians and the Subaru Solterra (a rebadged Toyota BZ4K, I think)

The Hyundai EVs like the Ioniq look pretty good too.

The higher end EV6 is apparently an absolute rocket.

The Rivians are expensive and hard to come by, but they're much better looking than Tesla's.

Same holds for Lucid, which I find much more aesthetically pleasing compared to Tesla's offerings.

I do credit Musk and Tesla for starting the revolution, but the real game-changer was Volkswagen betting the company on BEV's. That's when other car companies started to take notice.

>a good EV that doesn't have the Tesla/Musk cult of personality baggage

I'm not sure what this is. My dad doesn't follow the news very closely or know anything about musk. But he likes his tesla and it's reliable.

I don't trust Musk as a leader after what he's doing to Twitter. And all the cover ups about why they removed radar and sonar etc from the Teslas, and the false advertising about self driving and battery replacements and all that. They may be good cars, but I'd rather go with a good enough car from someone less manipulative.

This sounds very exciting and I'm very interested in Amazon's experiences with running such a large EV fleet.

Do the vans have sufficient range? Do they need a lot of maintenance? Do they break down often? Are the maintenance costs lower than those of an ICE van?

Wow I had no idea Rivian made anything besides the truck and that thousands had been delivered.

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