Rivian's Electric Delivery Van is Sick!

Oh is that truck that Doug Demuro had an review like a year ago

Do one of this video with S23 Ultra. Just for research purpose :)

Rivian should turn this into a camper van, just with a larger battery 🤓

Marques' part time job, amazon delivery driver😉🤣🤣

He’s not wearing his own shoes. Product placement man!

Can’t wait to see someone put a camper build in an old one of these

I wish I could make this a travel van. Can I buy one?

It is said you can still hear the horn if you drive by the charging bay 😅

Love this. Just moved to Seattle from Ukraine. Long live Ukraine.

This is like a mini spaceship, makes me think of star citizen

How about you speak about driver should make more money instead of kissing ass to Amazon who literally break their employees mark asss

UPS drivers be punchin their tv rn.

The video quality is amazing considering it was filmed on a phone. And the entire auto review is nice and informative as always.

Crazy how when I drove for them in 2018-2019 we drove U-Hauls with no uniform

Economies of scale on these delivery trucks only capable of doing 160miles on single charge will be dismal. There is no way in hell Amazon deliveries per truck will be able to keep up each day. You state that they will typically only use about 40% of that 160miles per full charge each day. Seriously though, what the hell is the use of a delivery truck if it only does around 64miles of traveling each day ? The ROI on these makes no sense. I think this is right now simply a way for Amazon to get Rivian out there in the public eye because Amazon is massively invested and this is just an advertising campaign. These trucks as they operate right now on a single charge makes zero financial sense as a operational delivery truck.

Cant wait for these to hit aftermarket. Would be a great family camper.

I thought the walls on thr inside had the outline of football players

A decommissioned one as a CamperVan would be awesome..

I’m probably going to get a lot of pushback but Amazon delivery van is what Tesla should’ve been doing instead of the semi and Cybertruck. The delivery van addresses the important problem of replacing ICE short range delivery vehicles with EVs. The Tesla semi is feasible for a relatively narrow set of applications. And Cybertruck is a solution in search of a problem

Why don’t you ask about the junk yards full of these? Lol

it left a co worker stranded because the battery was too hot

Eject button for door ???

See these everywhere around Seattle. They sound cool, even tho it's artifical

I worked for the USPS when Amazon just started doing their own deliveries in my area. It's amazing to see how far they've come from being gig workers in unmarked cars to driving these vans that probably outmatch anything any delivery company has in terms of driver comfort. I was 26 years old driving an LLV with no heat, no AC that broke down monthly and was older than I was. This would have been an absolute dream.

How is 150 miles range practical for these guys? Ive seen amazon vans go 50 miles one way from the warehouse.

woke crap

I hope these new vehicles come with pee assistance technology. Otherwise its back to plastic bottles for the poor drivers.

Strange that Amazon doesn't seem keen on ordering as many of these as was planned.

Cant wait til they sell these used and people turn them into tiny homes

Why didn't you show the camera staring the driver in the eye?

They should call these the Rivian R1D, for delivery

If the car gets damaged that is supposed to be very expensive. These cars are loaded with sensors that need to be reset and not many Rivan car repair shops are sparse.

I'm a UPS driver, and that is a thing of beauty. (It's way too small for our volume. Our smallest package cars are 800s, and the majority are 1000, and another large chunk being 1200.) But the comfy chairs, the AC in both cab and cargo area, the low step up, and the auto-opening bulkhead doors are wonderful and will make a huge difference in terms of RSIs and, you know, not dying of heat exhaustion. Our PCs look like they were designed as a medieval torture device by comparison. The only thing I don't like is the implication that drivers must use their own devices to scan that QR code and/or plug in. (Workers shouldn't have to subsidize billion-dollar corporations by bringing and using their own devices for work; but that's an Amazon thing, not a Rivian design thing.)

Unfortunately, most Amazon delivery drivers work for subcontractors who won't be getting these. They will be great for those few in-house drivers who get them, but I fear they will work more as marketing and PR than things that will meaningfully impact the majority of its underpaid, subcontracted delivery workforce. (And unless Amazon workers unionize and force the company to bring those subcontracted workers back in-house, I don't see these tiny, undercapitalized subcontractors being able to afford these beauties.)

But I'm happy to have these out there as models for what can and should be done for the workers who make our online shopping and WFH economy actually work.

I haven’t seen that much Siemens in a parking garage since I was homeless in San Francisco!

a very user centric experience machine

Rivian forgot to include a 3rd brake light!!!

“Cargo no space, car go road”

I'm definitely interested in seeing if I can purchase a damaged one and renovated to be an electric camper

Does it have reverse lights? I heard that is a issue with them.

EV's are the biggest SCAM on 4 wheels

Pretty dope!

With a good battery, this would make a fantastic base for a campervan build. Brilliant vehicle.

Oh, my buddy from college helped design/build those, they are super sick

Do you know if these will be selling to other delivery companies such as DHL and UPS, of will Amazon retain their monopoly on the vehicle? THanks

What an awesome van.

Now Bezos can track his drivers more, crack the whip so they can work harder and make more money so that they can afford the hundreds of millions in legal fees required to shut down the unions that protect workers.

Would LOVE to have one of these to turn into an RV… if only battery tech was a bit better…