How the hell is this an actual option a company put out? Do they just want the platform to exist but allow no one but Amazon to buy them?At this price why in the world would any business who's interested in an electric van not get a Silverado EV and attach a trailer to the back or something? This is the price of a luxury car, not a work van
>>28072407>At this price why in the world would any business who's interested in an electric van not get a Silverado EV and attach a trailer to the back or something?Because that would be huge and inefficient.
>>28072407>get a Silverado EV and attach a trailer to the backThat would be retarded, can you not imagine that different companies have different needs?
You can get an electric transit for 30k less with slightly more range so I don't know who these are for.
>>28072407Because the Silverado EV is also braindead retarded and costs $80k for one that's equipped like a $35k work truck trim level ICE Silverado
>>28072569business owners who want to virtue signal and claim a big expense on their income taxes and benefit from some EV carbon tax rebate bullshit if such a thing is active in their area.
>>28072407>just buy a trugg at that price!>unemployed kids cannot fathom the idea of businesses needing different type of vehicles for different needs
>>28072569Rivian is on the brink of bankruptcy. It's not entirely their fault, either: The meta for big tech startups has been "lose billions of dollars for ten years before becoming even slightly profitable because gajillionaires and the government will just print more money to fund you" since like 2010. Unfortunately investor patience has run out with them.
>>28072775Rivian is the only EV only company (Except Tesla) that I expect to exist in ten years
>>28072407>range: 100 miles >$84K lel
>>28072775I read that Rivian might be absorbed into VAG because they received $5 billion from them for more shares, and almost the entire Rivian software team recently joined Scout.
>>28072792Which is sad because I like Lucid, but I don't think they'll survive.
>>28073124you think mbs wouldn't want to keep his car company around even as a pet project?
>>28073133I think they'll keep it around and they'll just be a contract engineering company
>>28072407>cargo van:|>with sovl:DHow did they manage to do it? Why don't their other vehicles look more like this? It's so fun looking, I could see this becoming a classic if the electronics manage to last 30 years
>>28072407You seem to have confused "delivery van" for "work van."A delivery van will be on the road for 12 hours a day, every day.A work van will be parked on the side of the road.When your ICE vans are all sucking down $100 in gas a day and need a $50 oil change every week it doesn't take long for an electric to come out cheaper.Does it still seem stupidly expensive and something the Chinese could probably do better for $30,000? Yes. But does it still have a potential market at that price? Yes. ICE is just that bad at stop and go driving.
>>28074250>A delivery van will be on the road for 12 hours a day, every day.Is that going to be one of those charger roads like in death stranding or will it be two 6 hour shifts (with a long charge between each) averaging ~12 mph?
>>28074262Even the beat to shit ones we use at my DSP last all day long.I dont like them because they feel cheap and are falling apart cosmetically and some parts functionally.
>>28072407uh anon buying a brand new cargo van is never cheap all the cheap cargo vans you see are used
