godfodder0901
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I talked to a few employees at the New York show that all had pre-orders. They told me that they were specifically moved to the BACK of the line since they were employees and they wanted to make sure customers got theirs first. Based on the 'accuracy' of the statements we have gotten at these events, take it with a grain of salt.This may not be entirely nuts. Considering there could easily be 100+ employees that are very early LE preorder holders Rivian could fill out all June deliveries with employee delivery. This would gain them an extra month before home deliveries started to non-employee preorder holders. Then by September when production hits 600 units/week (hypothetical) open up to factory pick up to ease delivery logistics.
I still think designing the BEV is the easy part. Rivian has been engineering BEV with (X) number of parts for a decade and engineering/ building a factory with (X) times 10,000 parts for half that time. Rivian will face an untold number of challenges and set backs between now and the first customer delivery.
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