hey, at least you can get(And have) a truck. I can't get one here without pretending I live in..almost anywhere in alberta, or vancouver, based on plugging in postal codes to the shop.
If I put my postal code into Rivian's shop, I get a message saying they are not delivering here. Same with using a postal code for various not-vancouver places in BC.
If I put in a North Dakota zipcode barely south of the border, still six hours from the nearest service centre in Minneapolis, I...
Tale as old as copper. My brother in law used to work in the transmission side of the local electrical utility. People would try to steal bus bars from substations, thingd like that. Heād find what was left.
Rifish is hardly doomed without the Quebec market.
The Canadian market is seemingly secondary if not tertiary to Rivian. Weāre a small market and spread out over a big area.
The US and EMEA are clearly higher priorities, and easier markets to be in.
I donāt expect somewjere like a data centre or building products facility to employ a lot of people-theyāre automated. but they do take up a lot of space, and in the case of manufacturing facilities, have a lot of truck traffic.
What I was getting at is there are clearly a number of industrial...
Did people similarly oppose the large certanteed, General Mills, solo container, stand ridge color, Stanton springs data Center, etc etc facilities in the area?