Yes this is the registration data of RIVIAN US from MarkLines. So far it looked better than Q2.
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Tesla is low cost for two reasons:
1. they buy a lot of parts from china, including CATL cells, interiors, chassis parts, thermal management, etc. china is the king of low cost products for nearly everything.
2. scale
With Rivian R2
1. Rumor is that they will buy R1/R2 standard range cells from...
Seems production has caught up demand for the short term. Rivian needs to open more stores and service centers for more demand. I assume they need more than 300 stores/service centers in NA to cover most of the population. Still a long way to go.
basically he is calling RJ stupid... Now RIVIAN is out of exclusivity with Amazon, Jim may not see that coming. EV Van is a good market, not much competition yet. Let's see if Rivian can sell 40k of them every year.
Would anyone shed some light on the background of those massive inventory write downs and firm purchase losses? I'm kind of new to Rivian stock though I know their products for some time now.
1. 500 million inventory write down per quarter means about 5000 R1S worth of materials being writen...