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The existing building should churn out well over 100K large vehicles. Best guess is they are planning for the future, not first line of R1T/S.Thanks for the Pantagraph update. I didn't much care for this sentence, however.
"Rivian is also planning a 210,000-square-foot addition to the north side of the building for its production line. The project is planned for later this fall and has not accepted any contracting bids at this time." (bold letters added)
Bid solicitations will take a month, maybe more, and construction will likely run 3-4 months. (Hopefully, a firm already on site gets the bid, speeding things up.) The new transfer lines will have to be test run, adjusted, run at higher speeds, adjusted; rinse and repeat until everything works as it should. I don't think we'll see a production-ready Rivian until the end of Q1 2021.
Based on the article, I think that expansion would specifically be for the Amazon vans."Rivian is also planning a 210,000-square-foot addition to the north side of the building for its production line. The project is planned for later this fall and has not accepted any contracting bids at this time." (bold letters added)
Plus they declined to accept the originally negotiated $1M grant payment from the town when it came due.I can't imagine the proposed additions will be turned down. There are still parking spaces for 3,000 cars and, at peak production, the plant will employ about 1,000 folks. Also, Rivian is adding new landscaping and should be paying higher taxes, for newly added square footage. Everyone should be happy.
In what kind of time frame? a year ?The existing building should churn out well over 100K large vehicles. Best guess is they are planning for the future, not first line of R1T/S.