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Amazon is aggressively cost-cutting this year, including cutting their capex. Reading between the lines, I'm guessing Amazon is simply slowing their EDV rollout as a way to preserve capital. Having played these corporate games myself, here's what I see as contributing to the rationale:
they just finished installing approx. 100 chargers at their delivery center next to the Centennial Airport...driving by twice a week when dropping my daughter at practice...can't wait to see all the Rivian vans to start showing up.
I’m right there with you. It’s just as much about local air quality as it is about climate change here. Electrifying the big fleets (among other things) is what we need to get back to breathable local air.
They do not. They need to receive your payment a day before you have delivery scheduled. No more. If you paid earlier, that's on you - it's not like they're going to refuse the money if you give it to them a month in advance.
Yes, that can happen, but in rare exceptional cases.
I picked mine up in Richmond. Drove a bit more than two hours as it was available for pickup. Richmond SC said midweek was slow as everyone wants a weekend appointment. In the hour that I had my appointment it looked like PDI was being completed on about 15-20 cars during that timeframe time. They had about 50-75 cars in the back from what I saw. They seemed very efficient and everyone I chatted with was pleasant.
No, it does not speak to problems, it indicates a robust production rate. There will always be some percentage of the production on the lot - the greater the production, the greater the number on the lot.
It doesn’t prove a robust production rate unless someone has a webcam counting the number of cars coming in and going out. Hopefully production is increasing. Regardless, though, vehicles are piling up faster than they can be disposed of. A ramp faster than the cars can be sold is, itself, a problem. Inventory is cash! And Rivian recently filed to build two more parking lots at the factory (https://www.25newsnow.com/2023/04/0...est-solar-array-massive-employee-parking-lot/) so I wouldn’t say their planning is perfect.
