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Using Tesla as an example (this is the closest analog to Rivian at the moment), their 2020 10k had cost of automotive sales as 20.2B and Revenue of 27.2B. Split 3.1B 'Selling, general and administrative' expenses proportional to each revenue stream, you get 2.7B. That gives a gross margin of...

I initially thought the same, but going by the 2001 spec, W4 is 2nd row shoulder room. It very well could be that these were re-designated in the current spec.

Good find on the pre order velocity.

Assuming you are referring to the blanks for # of stocks, percentages, etc. This is common. It will be filled in later as the actual numbers are firmed up. These initial filings are there to help gauge interest so they can, in part, come up with a more realistic valuation and change offer price...

Based upon this post R1S Interior Dimensions it doesn't look like a full sheet of ply will fit inside, at least flat on the floor. The W201 measurement (Cargo Width-Wheelhouse— The minimum dimension measured laterally between the trimmed wheel housings at floor level. For any vehicle not...

Waymo is technically Level 4. The jump from 4 to 5 is exponential though. Personally, I think that Level 5 is a pipe dream without huge infrastructure to support it. But I am biased by years of designing automation and controls for Aerospace applications.

Guilty as charged, the gear tunnel (camp kitchen specifically) made me put down the deposit for the R1T. Also admit that there was a part of me wanting to not rent a tuck when I have to pick up building materials too. But, I'll probably swap over to the R1S in the end as I'll be doing more city...

I got my excel booted up and started to do a DCF to see if the 80Billion valuation made any sense based upon their claimed market size... I've been torn on their strategy for a bit. The R1T is really on brand so makes a lot of sense from that perspective to lead with it, but given American's...

Its wonderful! The only question is do you let the kids control the content on the main screen or do you give them your phone and you get control of the big screen :p

The way these types of filings usually go is that they list everything and anything under the sun that they could possibly do, irrespective of how viable it may be either from a business or technical perspective. Not sure I can see the enterprise productivity stuff working...but maybe all of...

Sales restricted, worst case you would have to complete your purchase in a state that they are allowed to sell in. In lieu of physically going there, you may have the option of completing the transaction in that state then having the vehicle shipped to you. Tesla did this in several states...

Page 108 That figure is their estimate for the current commercial market per unit LTR, i.e. how they are determining the size of the market. Depending on how they price, your $50k is probably a good estimate for sale price.

I can see China as a market for the R1S, but they'll have to offer a CUV type form factor to do anything in Japan on the consumer side. There isn't much demand for big form factor vehicles in Japan.

Probably similar to the law that the dealers lobbied for in Washington State. It essentially grandfathered in Tesla because they were operating prior to the effective date that prohibited manufacturers from having a direct sales operation.

In the Reddit AMA he had, he stated it was from a Rivian employee In the same AMA, he said an employee also responded that there was a good chance he could get a car delivered by end of next year if he placed an order now.

At the latest, it'll be released when their IPO paperwork is made public in a month or so. My guess is that what ever was in their initial filing will be updated prior to that with the latest numbers. Would be interesting to see if they segrigate the number of pre orders (rumored to be 40,000)...

I've been lurking for some time and finally signed up as I thought I might have something worth contributing. I believe someone said earlier in this thread to check the ESA database for satellite photos. Extremely low resolution picture from yesterday from the Sentinal satellite ...but probably...