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Rivian arrived with the kind of ambition that makes established manufacturers simultaneously dismissive and quietly anxious — a startup that went straight to the segments Detroit considers its birthright, built genuinely capable electric trucks and SUVs, and then spent several years discovering that building cars at scale is considerably harder than building enthusiasm for them. It has since posted its first gross profit, started volume production of the more accessible R2, and confirmed a pickup variant and R2X performance model that nobody had been shown yet. The story is still being written. Cars & Code is following it closely.
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On April 18, an EF-1 tornado touched down in Normal, Illinois and caused significant structural damage to Rivian's manufacturing plant. Four days later, Rivian started volume production of its most important vehicle. The R2 is, apparently, not a car that…
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