His vision will culminate with the R4 vehicle.
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Rivian’s point-to-point driving feature will first reach owners through an invitation-only “Autonomy Early Access Program,” and the owners it picks will have to sign a non-disclosure agreement to get in.
The program, laid out on a new Rivian support…
We’ll likely learn more about how this will work at the company’s upcoming “AI & Autonomy Day” event in December.
Tesla’s Senior Manager of Cybercab General Assembly at Gigafactory Texas, Jody Kerns, is leaving the company to become Rivian’s Director of General Assembly for the R2 in Normal, Illinois.
He’s the second Cybercab launch leader to leave Tesla this y…
Doug Field, the engineer who ran Tesla’s Model 3 program and later Ford’s entire EV operation, is now president of Mind Robotics, the industrial robotics startup Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe spun out of Rivian last year.
He lands at a company that has now…
Field also worked on Apple’s secretive car project and oversaw development of the Tesla Model 3.
Rivian is rolling out Pet Cam, a new feature in software update 2026.36 that lets R2 owners check on a pet left in the vehicle through a live video feed in the Rivian app.
It’s exclusive to the R2. R1T and R1S owners get new remote Pet Mode controls…
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Deliveries jumped roughly 45% compared to the same quarter last year, with Rivian delivering more than 19,000 EVs.