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Philzer
Rivian newbie here, though I've followed their progress since the building of the Normal plant. I've been waiting for the R2 since then, so I placed a reservation on the reveal day 3/7/24. I will use every once of patience I have, while waiting for it to be produced. It probably won't happen until 2026, but I'm hoping they surprise us with a late 2025 start of production. Hi everybody!
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Mygrain
Mygrain
Welcome! Rivian over-delivered on 3/7, but spare yourself the heartache of expecting Rivian to beat their target dates. I undoubtedly sound like Debbie Downer, buy I waited 57 months from reservation to delivery of my R1S. And I live just an hour's drive from the factory. Rivian missed every delivery window estimate they gave me, and they eventually stopped giving me updates. Roughly 25,000 people who reserved after me took delivery of an R1S before me.

If you followed Rivian Forums this week, you may have seen that Rivian sent emails to current R1 owners telling them that they will get "priority delivery" of the R2 if they reserve now. So, if you don't currently own an R1, you definitely should temper your expectations of delivery timing for an R2. Feel free to contact Rivian's customer support to voice your opinion about that plan.

I have almost 3000 miles on the R1S that I reserved in February of 2019, and I truly love it. I want the company to succeed. I applaud Rivian's decision to build the R2 in Normal. But Rivian has a poor track record for meeting their own target dates. And during 2022 and 2023, there was a baffling degree of randomness about the order in which reservations were filled.

My experience is one little data point of Rivian reality. I sincerely hope that your experience will be infinitely better.
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Philzer
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@Mygrain I'm new to Rivian, but not EV startups. As a reservation holder for an Aptera since 2021, they still haven't produced a vehicle yet. So I've endured a lot of failed expectations and have a very thick skin to temper those expectations.





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