Neither company loses much if rivian disappears. For amazon the equity investment fell under corporate social responsibility, the alternative would be somethin

Neither company loses much if rivian disappears. For amazon the equity investment fell under corporate social responsibility, the alternative would be something like carbon offsets which are a pure loss. For ford it just means one less competitor, and they might be able to salvage some IP in the fire sale. If rivian is just a variation on a proven technology whats their competitive advantage? They have zero manufacturing scale, zero experience selling cars, and with the “platform” model no way to differentiate the cars over any other EV (no vertical integration).