In November 2019, Tesla released the Cybertruck series of electric pickup trucks, officially opening a new era of pickup truck electrification. This sci-fi pickup truck instantly became popular all over the world. In just three days, it received orders for 200,000 units. Recently, the R1T electric pickup truck, also produced by RIVIAN in the United States, has become popular all over the Internet with its "Tank Turn" operation. Moreover, it has raised more than US$3 billion in cumulative funds in just one year, and is expected to become Tesla's biggest competitor in the future.
Just now, some media learned from the State Intellectual Property Office that Rivian has applied for a design patent for the R1T electric pickup truck in China. It is currently unable to prove whether this vehicle will be introduced into the country, but it does not rule out such a product in the future. possibility.
What is Rivian’s background?
I believe that most people are unfamiliar with the Rivian brand. In fact, it is a "new force" in car manufacturing in the United States. It has been 11 years since it was founded in 2009. As an emerging pure electric vehicle company, they did not have a mass-produced vehicle. They chose to acquire a Mitsubishi factory in Illinois, USA, and began mass production in 2019. Make cars.
Recently, this rapidly emerging "new force" car manufacturer received a new round of financing led by T. Rowe Price, worth US$1.3 billion.
In fact, Rivian has already had several rounds of financing before this. In February 2019, it first received US$700 million in financing led by Amazon, then in April it received US$500 million in financing from Ford, and in September it received funding from Cox. ?$350 million in funding from Automotive.
After some financing, this "new power" car manufacturer founded in 2009 transformed into a car company with a valuation of over 3 billion US dollars, and it has also become the most valuable car company in the United States. An electric vehicle startup with the power to challenge Tesla’s status.
Rivian is also considered to be the most successful electric vehicle startup in the United States after Tesla. It has encountered far more difficulties or turbulence than electric vehicles such as Faraday Future, Lucid Motors, and Byton. New ventures are coming in slowly.
According to analysis by industry insiders, Rivian, which has raised a total of approximately 20 billion yuan in four rounds of financing within a year, has strategic investors such as Amazon, Ford, and Cox, and financial investors such as T.?Rowe?Price?Associates. With the support of Tesla, it has the opportunity to defeat Tesla in the U.S. market in the next five years.
Compared with Twitter celebrities like Musk, Rivian’s CEO RJ Scaringe is much more low-key and lacks Musk’s strong charisma. In the eyes of the public, Rivian is also a start-up company. .
Like Tesla’s Roadster, which was originally developed based on the Lotus Elise, Scaringe initially spent two years developing a small sports car. The company was not yet famous at the time, so the development of this little sports car was carried out in secret. In this way, the company ran for 8 years without being known to the outside world, until they officially established the factory in 2017. The team realized that in the current U.S. and global markets, it would be unwise to continue to focus on electric sports cars. In contrast, electric pickup trucks and SUVs have broader development prospects, so they stopped everything they were doing. job, and decided to seriously build an electric pickup truck.
At this point, Rivian has grown from a garage of a few people to today's 2,000 employees and a 260-square-foot factory. According to the previously announced plan, the company's production capacity will be controlled at 20,000-25,000 vehicles per year in the first two years, and will eventually reach a production capacity of 250,000 vehicles per year after mass production.
Rivian uses the modular, scalable Skateboard platform and develops more vehicle model possibilities based on it. One of them is the investor Amazon’s cargo transport vehicle. The two parties have signed a contract for 100,000 vehicles. Order Contract. In addition, there is already news that the electric SUV Lincoln plans to launch in 2022 will be based on the Rivian chassis.
Is Rivian? R1T? expected to enter China?
In fact, RIVIAN? R1T had already been unveiled at last year’s Los Angeles Auto Show before Tesla released the Cybertruck. With its simple and elegant design style and strong power performance, it attracted a lot of attention. , it’s just too far away from our domestic consumers.
Recently, some media learned from the State Intellectual Property Office that Ruiweian Intellectual Property Holdings Co., Ltd. applied for a design patent for R1T. Rivian has applied for a design patent for the R1T in China. It is currently unable to prove whether the car will be introduced into the country, but it does not rule out the possibility in the future.
According to information released by the media, the R1T uses a front double wishbone and rear multi-link suspension system, and is equipped with an adjustable air shock absorber, with a wading depth of up to 1 meter. Each wheel of the car is driven by a motor, which enables independent control of each wheel. With the corresponding control logic, the vehicle can turn in place.
According to official information released by Rivian, R1T offers three battery life versions of 370km, 482km and 643km. In terms of performance, the total output power of the four motors on the car is between 300-562kW, and its acceleration time from 0-96km/h is only 2.8 seconds, which is very powerful.
The R1T body length, width and height are 5475×2015×1815 mm, with a wheelbase of 3450 mm. It also has L3 level autonomous driving functions and is equipped with fast charging piles up to 160kW/h.
R1T? Patent Picture
RIVIAN? R1S
Rivian’s current products include R1T and R1S models (T for Truck, S for SUV), starting price They are priced at US$69,000 and US$72,500 respectively, and the first batch will be delivered by the end of this year.
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Source: First Electric Network
Author: Wang Mingyou
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