Yossarian
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Agree that there should be more emphasis on service centers however, the Rivian Spaces are really the only marketing that the company does.May be an unpopular opinion but I don’t think it gets talked about enough … I wish they would stop opening Spaces and focus on opening more service centers.
I live in NJ and we have no SC, even though I see tons of R1s in the road. NJ is huge on EV adoption, yet we don’t have a SC which can easily act as a showroom.
As a shareholder and a LE R1S owner, I can’t imagine how much is being spent on rent and salaries for all the fancy Spaces in Brooklyn and Manhattan, where EVs don’t even make as much sense since almost no one has access to convinient home charging.
Regarding service centers, the Garden State already has one in operation, in Roebling, near Trenton. I'm not sure why the Rivian website hasn't been updated to show that it's operational. There are several more SC's planned for NJ, Edison, Carlstadt & Woodbridge, and there's one up and running just across the state line Blauvelt, NY as well. To the point about SC's acting as proxy Rivian Spaces, I suspect that most are too overwhelmed by the volume vehicles needing work to be showrooms.
I live in PA, where until recently, owing to the Commonwealth's dealer-only laws, there were no SC's even in the planning stages. Rivian seems to have gotten an exemption (as Tesla also did), and there is now a SC planned for Malvern, only a few miles from where I live. We have quite a few Rivian's in my area, so that SC will be very welcome.
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