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First time hearing of Rivian. Cool concept, i imagine getting electric motors to move huge trucks around is a better/more mainstream application then a 0-60 in
by swarnie_ 8y ago
First time hearing of Rivian. Cool concept, i imagine getting electric motors to move huge trucks around is a better/more mainstream application then a 0-60 in 2 second hyper car.
Looking at their product line up this is strictly for US markets right? This thing would be wildly out of place in any town/city I've lived in.
- djrogers 8y agoThere are a lot of places that trucks and SUVs sell well - the US is the biggest right now, but Canada, China, India, and Russia all come to mind as consumers of vehicles like this. Global sales of just one truck similar in size to the Rivian - the Ford F-150 - topped 1M units in 2018, making it the best selling vehicle globally, beating out the corolla and the civic by 140k and 250k units respectively.
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- swarnie_ 8y agoThat might explain it then, i'm not fantastically well traveled outside of Europe and the only place I've seen monsters like this is Florida and Maine...
- 24gttghh 8y agoYou'll find big SUV's and pickup trucks in every state. No US state is purely urban. Even when it is mostly so, there are still people who drive obscenely large vehicles (ICE of course for now) like these electric ones.
- throwaway400 8y agoIt is also the case that full size trucks are heavily used as fleet vehicles for companies and municipalities. F-150s are very popular for this, in particular.
- samfisher83 8y agoThe f150 has been the best selling vehicle in America for a while now. That is where it gets it's big numbers from.
- chrisseaton 8y agoThese kind of pick-up trucks are hugely popular all around the world. They're not always American - look at the Toyota trucks that are massive everywhere. But yeah they're rural vehicles - you wouldn't see them much if you live all your life in a city.