Rivian on Tuesday confirmed that it is going to be delivering Max Pack variations of its R1S, in Twin Motor type, beginning this fall. 

In keeping with Rivian, the R1S Max Pack will speed up to 60 mph in as little as 3.5 seconds and supply three rows of seating. 

With the announcement, a part of a quarterly monetary replace for shareholders launched Tuesday, the corporate stated that it’s going to quickly present an replace on how these with a preorder can replace it to the Max Pack model.

Rivian Enduro drive unit

Max Pack fashions will embody a pair of Rivian’s Enduro single motor drive models, which had been engineered by the corporate and produced in-house. Rivian earlier this month began producing saleable models of the unit, which can also be used for front-wheel-drive business vans. 

The corporate has stated that it’s going to use lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cells in its R1T and R1S variations with the Commonplace Pack, reaching an estimated vary of 270 miles for the R1T and 260 miles for the R1S—plus new, increased vary figures of 340 miles and 350 miles for the R1S and R1T, respectively, with the Giant Pack and dual-motor format. Observe that these figures aren’t but EPA-confirmed.

Rivian R1S and R1T up to date specs and ranges – Feb. 28, 2023

Rivian EDV vans with the Enduro drive models are additionally shifting to LFP packs. The supply of the LFP cells in all these vans hasn’t but been disclosed; they’re from a battery partnership that hasn’t but been introduced in keeping with CEO RJ Scaringe.

In the meantime, on an accompanying replace name, Scaringe emphasised that ramping up manufacturing, slicing prices, and looking forward to its mass-market R2 fashions set for 2026 are among the many prime priorities. 

Scaringe stated that the manufacturing ramp of the R1 lineup has outfitted the crew with manufacturing and product growth expertise that’s being utilized to its first mass-market automobile, the R2—and to the $5 billion Georgia plant that may construct the R2 lineup. 

“We’ve got members throughout the group from design to engineering and manufacturing, coming collectively to develop what we imagine is a real class defining platform.”

“Over the following six months, we’ll be finalizing the vast majority of the core engineering and sourcing selections that may drive how the R2 product line is constructed, and the velocity at which we are able to ramp manufacturing to profitability,” he stated.

Rivian R1T, R1S chassis

Rivian R2 lineup: Simplified for meeting, sourcing

Scaringe stated that the R2 platform may have a decrease price construction and can leverage quite a lot of the tech it is going to be introducing into R1, together with the Enduro drive models and an up to date electronics structure and community structure, consolidating compute duties to a small variety of ECUs. 

However it goes past that, he defined. By utilizing bigger stampings, and extrusions or stampings, there are fewer components, joints, and parts that must be hooked up, and that simplifies meeting and the sourcing course of.

As a part of its quarterly replace, Rivian anticipated that provide chain points will persist nicely into 2023, and it estimated its automobile manufacturing at 50,000 for the yr—a determine that’s simply over twice its 24,337 autos produced in 2022 however under the 60,000 that had been broadly anticipated. Rivian famous that it exceeded 10,000 autos made within the fourth quarter of 2022.

Rivian R1T pre-production

The corporate now has 65,000 annual models of R1 capability at Regular, but it surely’s planning to halt manufacturing and “re-rate” the plant subsequent yr, including capability for 85,000 models to succeed in its supposed 150,000 manufacturing charge. The Georgia plant, Rivian has stated, may have the capability to make 400,000 autos as soon as totally ramped up—so it’s conceivable that if Rivian has discovered profitability, it is likely to be making 10 instances the variety of autos only a few years from now. 

Due to that sluggish progress, nevertheless, Rivian studies that it’s nonetheless making most of its deliveries primarily based on pricing earlier than March 1, 2022—when the corporate raised costs considerably, even for many who had made early preorders, solely to restore earlier pricing for current preorders two days later after a lot backlash.