Hold my beer…
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Apparently, the model name “Ascent” refers to your chances as an owner of attending your own viking funeral.
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On my Xmas list!
(Guys that finger print sensor is going to get dirty)
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Interesting, but not something I’d want to drive. It looks stylish, but uncomfortable. While he was using the sensor, I was looking for lumbar support. 
I prefer my cars to project more “stealth” or “What was that?” than “firefly.”
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And you’ll still have to pay!
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They have only themselves to blame if they get cancer later! /s
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That’s why you should be more careful when choosing your parents.
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All the Amazon electric vans here are bog standard vans, just electric. I guess they have more money than they know what to do with though.
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If it helps to keep Rivian afloat…
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Ah. I was wondering what world it made sense to buy a brand new platform instead of a bog standard, been doing this for decades, workhorse from Mercedes or Renault (I can’t remember, I have gone up to them to check but they are just so dull it left my mind immediately) and the answer is “the bizarro world of extremist capitalism where trillion dollar companies are actually wealth management firms first rather than the thing you think you know them for”.
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There are solid engineering reasons to develop a new platform for an EV from the ground up instead of just swapping the ICE for an electric motor and shoving in a couple of batteries using an existing platform. (Which has been done for, well decades and didn’t really go anywhere. Don’t get me started on the 1976 Elektro-Golf.)
I mean, it’s not like developing cars was done by putting mechanical horses in front of a then state-of-the-art carriage.
Besides, any components that work just as well with the new platform would be used on the new platform.
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No, they put engines in state of the art carriages! Literally.
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New platforms designed around the engine. Not just bolting a boiler or an ICE to a carriage.
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I wonder if Doug DeMuro had ever been inside a parcel van before. He’s amazed by the high roof and the roller door at the back.
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