Rivian opens commercial van sales to all businesses

Rivian will sell its commercial electric vans to any US business that wants a one – for more than a year after completing an exclusive deal with Backer Amazon.

The company will sell two vans – small 500 and larger 700 – but buyers will have to do registered business, the company said. This means that any optimistic van-lifer has to wait and see if Rivian ever sells them directly.

Its commercial vans expose a possible earning flow to the extermination of the business that sits dormant from Rivian and Amazon End their exclusive contract In November 2023. The new potential line of the business comes at an important time for the organization, which is doing all the things that can be done for a loss in front Launching the more affordable SUV next yearThe

Rivian has seen several performances Trial with potential fleet customersThe And EV Maker spent last year to prepare a commercial fleet line for broad business, which included service infrastructure, digital infrastructure and reaction from pilots from fleeting customers, spokesperson Tania Miller.

“In the past one year we have been focusing on our efforts for some greater fleet and we are really satisfied with how these trials are gone,” Senior Director of Rivian Business Development Tom Solomon said in a statement.

Rivian first started producing commercial vans in 2021, two years after the Amazon tried to reduce its climate impact, two years after ordering 5 vehicles. Amazon had already invested deeply in Rivian when it struck the exclusive agreement for commercial vans. Just seven months ago, a led by e-commerce giant Round in investment of $ 700 million In the Rivian language.

According to Solomon, Amazon now has 20,000 commercial vans produced by Rivian.