Final evening, Laguna Seaside, Calif., Metropolis Council members ready to approve Rivian’s request (PDF) to park six automobiles on the grass in a metropolis park for an “R2 launch” on March 7. The corporate seems to be planning to formally announce its upcoming electrical SUV, the R2, which must be smaller and cheaper than its present lineup of electrical automobiles.
The area people publication is named Stu Information Laguna Experiences yesterday emerged that the council plans to approve the occasion with a movement, together with a variety of different agenda gadgets, as a small merchandise on the council’s consent calendar revealed. The six vehicles Rivian needs to park are “for reference solely,” Stu Information wrote.
Whereas the doc itself does not particularly point out the aim of a “world launch occasion,” the diagram on the backside of the automobile’s deliberate format reads “RIVIAN R2 LAUNCH v11.pln,” which is fairly easy.
Rivian does not seem to have made any official bulletins round that date, however the firm just lately took over a constructing referred to as the South Coast Theater close to the place the automobiles will probably be parked. Now named the Rivian South Coast Theater, it serves as the corporate’s “first flagship retail retailer.” An organization spokesman declined to remark.
The corporate’s R2 platform will underpin its next-generation fashions, that are anticipated to enter manufacturing as quickly as 2026. Rivian mentioned one of many first fashions will probably be a small SUV priced between $40,000 and $60,000. The present line of R1 automobiles begins at about $80,000 every.
Rivian additionally mentioned it goals to cut back the carbon footprint of its subsequent technology of automobiles by rising the quantity of recycled supplies and utilizing extra renewable vitality within the manufacturing course of.