Rivian R2 Performance AWD (20in AT)
Observed 2027–2027 (US EPA) · observed model years, not a production range
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- Who Makes Rivian?
Kelley Blue Book · Chris Hardesty · 5 Nov 2026
Learn who makes Rivian vehicles, where they're built, and what's next for the electric automaker's trucks, SUVs, and Georgia factory.
- «El ID. Golf existirá y vendrá de Wolfsburgo», Volkswagen apunta a retomar su desarrollo en 2027
Motor.es · David Durán · 4 Nov 2026
El Volkswagen Golf eléctrico llegará con plataforma SSP, aunque no será antes de que termine esta década. El proyecto no está cancelado ni mucho menos, con la previsión de que comience a producirse a principios de la próxima década basado en la plataforma SSP desarrollada junto a Rivian, la cual estrenará el ID. Roc. Hace apenas unos días comentábamos que Volkswagen, viéndole las orejas al lobo a nivel económico dados los resultados de tiempos recientes a nivel global, paraba el desarrollo del ID. Golf, la versión eléctrica de su gran superventas, el coche que eventualmente tomará el relevo d…
- Rivian Is Doing The Damn Thing
Jalopnik · Andy Kalmowitz · 2 Nov 2026
CEO RJ Scaringe says Rivian is "right on time."
- Podcast: Rivian earnings, Waymo partners with Toyota, Ford bets on V2H for Fathom, and more
Electrek · Fred Lambert · 30 Oct 2026
In the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we’ll discuss Rivian’s earnings, Waymo partnering with Toyota, Ford betting on V2H for the Fathom electric pickup truck, and more. more…
- Someone ran Rivian’s pedal-by-wire e-bike out of battery and things got weird
Electrek · Micah Toll · 30 Oct 2026
The ALSO TM-B is one of the most technologically interesting new e-bikes to hit the road in years, largely because it does away with one of the most fundamental parts of a bicycle: the mechanical connection between the pedals and rear wheel. With only copper wires connecting the pedals to the rear wheel, the TM-B is one of the most revolutionary new e-bikes in years. But that raises an obvious question. What happens when the battery dies? more…
- Rivian’s electric van gets 30% more range and AWD, now delivering
Electrek · Fred Lambert · 29 Oct 2026
Rivian has started delivering the first major hardware upgrade to its electric van since production began in 2021: a bigger LFP battery pack good for 30% more range, and a new dual-motor AWD version. The company confirmed in its Q3 2026 shareholder presentation that deliveries of the new variants began in early October. That’s the first real spec bump for a van that has been stuck at about 160 miles of rated range for years. more…
- Rivian (RIVN) Q3 2026 earnings: revenue up 38%, R2 now its best-seller
Electrek · Fred Lambert · 29 Oct 2026
Rivian (RIVN) just released its Q3 2026 earnings, with revenue up 38% year-over-year to $2.155 billion. The R2, in its first full quarter of deliveries, is already the company’s best-selling vehicle, ahead of both the R1 and the Amazon van. The results beat Wall Street’s expectations, and Rivian is raising its 2026 guidance on every metric. But the car business is still losing money, and the R2 ramp made the automotive margin worse this quarter. more…
- Rivian electric van spotted in Walmart+ livery, hinting at a fleet deal
Electrek · Fred Lambert · 27 Oct 2026
A Rivian electric delivery van wrapped in Walmart+ branding was photographed on a car hauler on I-94 in northwest Indiana today. It’s the first public sign that Walmart could become Rivian’s next big van customer after Amazon. Neither company has announced a deal. But Walmart’s last two electric van suppliers are out of the business, and Rivian is one of the few companies still building a purpose-built electric delivery van in the US. more…
- Volkswagen pourrait miser sur la technologie chinoise de XPeng pour ses voitures électriques en Europe
L'Automobile Propre · Valentin Cimino · 27 Oct 2026
Alors que Volkswagen a investi plusieurs milliards de dollars dans un partenariat avec l’américain Rivian, il envisagerait désormais d’utiliser une… L’article Volkswagen pourrait miser sur la technologie chinoise de XPeng pour ses voitures électriques en Europe est apparu en premier sur Automobile Propre.
- Rivian buys startup to turn 400,000 daily clips into 3D sims
Electrek · Fred Lambert · 23 Oct 2026
Rivian wants to rebuild the roads its customers drive as 3D test worlds for its self-driving system, and it just bought a 15-person UK startup called Third Dimension to do it, as first reported by TechCrunch. The startup was founded in 2024 by a former Tesla Autopilot simulation engineer and a veteran of Wayve’s neural simulator team. Rivian didn’t say what it paid. more…
- Redwood and Rivian set to expand their EV battery recycling partnership
Electrek · Jo Borrás · 22 Oct 2026
Redwood Materials and Rivian are expanding their existing EV battery partnership, adding a fresh battery material recycling effort to the EV startup’s Normal, Illinois, vehicle factory and, potentially, other Rivian-owned sites. more…
- Rivian Launches Early Access Autonomy Beta
Kelley Blue Book · Jordan Schiefer · 21 Oct 2026
Rivian has officially kicked off its invite-only Autonomy Early Access Program, opening up registration for software testing through owner account portals.
- Rivian now #2 US EV brand, up from #10, as Big Auto marginalizes itself
Electrek · Jameson Dow · 20 Oct 2026
Rivian is now the #2 EV brand in the US, up from 10th last year, taking Chevrolet’s spot as almost every other automaker tries to slow down the inevitable transition to electric cars. more…
- Rivian limits point-to-point driving to invite-only testers under NDA
Electrek · Fred Lambert · 15 Oct 2026
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 page, covers US R1 Gen 2 and R2 owners who pay for Autonomy+. Rivian says point-to-point launches to that group in late 2026 and won’t expand broadly until 2027. more…
- Tesla loses Cybercab assembly lead to Rivian R2 weeks after launch
Electrek · Fred Lambert · 15 Oct 2026
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 year. The head of Cybercab new product introduction walked out in April, before the vehicle ever carried a paying passenger. more…
- Rivian’s Mind Robotics snags Doug Field, ex-Tesla and Ford EV chief
Electrek · Fred Lambert · 13 Oct 2026
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 raised more than $1 billion in under a year, and he’ll run product, engineering, and operations alongside Scaringe. more…
- Il charge sa voiture avec une rallonge et met le feu à sa maison
Caradisiac · 11 Oct 2026
Un Rivian R1S et la maison voisine ont été ravagés par un incendie alors que le véhicule rechargeait ses batteries aux États-Unis. Une simple rallonge électrique pourrait être à l’origine du sinistre, une pratique pourtant formellement déconseillée.
- Rivian Halloween Mode 2026 Goes Gangbusters for Ghostbusters
Kelley Blue Book · Beth Livesay · 9 Oct 2026
Halloween Mode 2026 can transform your Rivian into a ghost-hunting machine.
- Rivian's Annual Halloween Mode Goes Ghostbusters With Officially Licensed Movie Sounds, Games, And A Spooky Voice Assistant
Jalopnik · Collin Woodard · 8 Oct 2026
To show off the new update, which rolls out to owners on October 9, Rivian put together a new ad starring Bill Murray.
- Rivian Turned an R1S Into a Ghostbusters Ecto-1—Sirens, Radar Dish, and All. It Rules
The Drive · Joel Feder · 8 Oct 2026
With restored vintage emergency lights, a No-Ghost logo, and a hidden compass only visible from above the ghosts won't stand a chance. The post Rivian Turned an R1S Into a Ghostbusters Ecto-1—Sirens, Radar Dish, and All. It Rules appeared first on The Drive.
- Rivian brings Ghostbusters to its vehicles in 2026 Halloween update
Electrek · Jameson Dow · 8 Oct 2026
Rivian is back with another Halloween update, and once again it’s another classic-movie-themed one with a new celebrity cameo. more…
- Rivian R2 gets live Pet Cam in update, AI assistant, and more
Electrek · Fred Lambert · 7 Oct 2026
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 instead, and the same update brings the Rivian Assistant to the R2, four months after the SUV launched. more…
- Rivian Sales Are Riding High. Now Comes the Hard Part: TDS
The Drive · Adam Ismail · 6 Oct 2026
The maker of electric utility vehicles just beat Wall Street's expectations, but its next objective will be even harder to reach. The post Rivian Sales Are Riding High. Now Comes the Hard Part: TDS appeared first on The Drive.
- Rivian’s delayed ALSO e-bikes are finally arriving to first customers, with mixed early feedback
Electrek · Micah Toll · 4 Oct 2026
After months of delays, missed delivery windows, and increasingly impatient reservation holders, Rivian spinout ALSO is finally putting its electric bikes into the hands of actual customers. more…
- Rivian continues to ramp with R2 even as EV market growth slows
Electrek · Seth Weintraub · 2 Oct 2026
Rivian posted its third-quarter production and delivery numbers this morning and, with the R2, remains on track to meet its annual targets despite some headwinds across the US electric vehicle sector. more…
- Rivian: LiDAR R2 reaches customers in 2027, employees get it this year
Electrek · Fred Lambert · 30 Sep 2026
Rivian’s first R2s with LiDAR and its in-house RAP1 autonomy computer will go to employees before the end of 2026. Paying customers will have to wait until 2027. It could be interpreted as a delay compared to previous communications. The automaker laid out the timeline at an investor conference in New York this week, along with updates on point-to-point driving, its Uber robotaxi deal, and what LiDAR now costs it: “a few hundred dollars.” more…
- Rivian Knows Your Teen Doesn’t Need 1,025 Horsepower
The Drive · Joel Feder · 29 Sep 2026
Rivian's software boss told us that Teen and Valet Mode are arriving in early 2027 because teenagers probably shouldn't have access to so much power or hardcore off-road features. The post Rivian Knows Your Teen Doesn’t Need 1,025 Horsepower appeared first on The Drive.
- Podcast: Tesla Semi launch, Geely’s battery healing fast-charging, Rivian R3, and more
Electrek · Fred Lambert · 25 Sep 2026
In the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss the Tesla Semi launch, Geely’s battery healing fast-charging, Rivian R3, and more. more…
- Wheel-E Podcast: South Park e-bikes, Honda eMTB, more
Electrek · Micah Toll · 25 Sep 2026
This week on Electrek’s Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most popular news stories from the world of electric bikes and other nontraditional electric vehicles. This time, that includes new e-bikes from Segway and Honda, South Park takes on e-bikes, Rivian’s e-bikes are rolling out to everyone except for customers, Royal Enfield’s e-moto gets a Western price, and more. more…
- Rivian R3 will be ‘materially’ cheaper than R2, and R4 goes even lower
Electrek · Fred Lambert · 22 Sep 2026
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe says the upcoming R3 crossover will come in “materially lower” than the R2 on price, and that a follow-up model, the R4, will push prices down further still. He didn’t give a number. But it’s the clearest sign yet that Rivian plans to keep walking its lineup down toward the heart of the market after the R2 launch. more…