Rivian will now promote its industrial van to any fleet, beginning at $79,900

Rumors leaked final week, and now it’s official: the Rivian Industrial Van is now accessible to order for fleets of any measurement, even right down to a single van – however nonetheless just for companies, not people.

Rivian first introduced it might make electrical supply vans in 2019, as a part of a partnership with Amazon, who ordered 100,000 of the autos. The corporate has delivered round 20,000 of the vans to Amazon thus far.

The Amazon settlement included a 4 12 months exclusivity interval, the place Rivian would solely promote vans to Amazon, and no different patrons. That exclusivity interval led to November 2023, and Rivian has been providing up its van to different companions.

When that interval ended, Rivian additionally renamed its automobile from the “Electrical Supply Van” to “Rivian Industrial Automobile,” indicating that it wish to promote it for functions apart from deliveries – suppose contractors, handymen, meals vans (please! I hate smelling exhaust as a substitute of meals!) and so forth.

It didn’t take lengthy for Rivian to get some curiosity from different corporations, and we’ve seen spy images of Rivian vans in different liveries roaming round. However we haven’t heard some other large agreements because the exclusivity interval ended.

However at the moment, as a substitute of aiming for big contracts and partnerships just like the Amazon deal, Rivian is now introducing a fleet gross sales program that may take orders from fleets of any measurement – whilst small as a single van.

The RCV is available in two separate fashions – RCV 500 and RCV 700. The latter is each longer and wider, with far more cargo area.

As with most industrial gross sales, these are clearly the pre-upfit costs. Your closing value will rely upon what kind of upfitting you want to do. Rivian says that its Fleet Gross sales crew will work with patrons to debate particular upfit wants, or you’ll be able to at all times take it to whichever upfitter you already use.

However that’s one essential observe right here: although Rivian is promoting these autos to fleets of any measurement, they’re nonetheless promoting the autos to fleets, not people. Every van have to be registered to a enterprise, so that you vanlifers is likely to be out of luck for now (otherwise you’ll must get artistic).

Rivian says that it’ll begin taking orders for its industrial van this month, with deliveries beginning in April. So attain out to Rivian fleet gross sales if you wish to get your corporation on the checklist.

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