May/June Deliveries Thread

[Mysta]

You are being a bit selective in my statement. Sure Q1 demonstrated evidence of a short-term spike of rising deliveries in the latter part of March. Far quieter so far since suggesting Rivian emptied out "all its bullets." Clearing its own factory lot and delivery centers of stocked inventory.

Don't get me wrong, I very much want to be wrong here. Just saying that any exponential growth in pace of deliveries is undermined by an inchworm approach to moving its product.

But they produced, not delivered. Almost half the quarters trucks in less than a month. That’s not emptying reserves.

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[LaunchGreen]

You are being a bit selective in my statement. Sure Q1 demonstrated evidence of a short-term spike of rising deliveries in the latter part of March. Far quieter so far since suggesting Rivian emptied out "all its bullets." Clearing its own factory lot and delivery centers of stocked inventory.

Don't get me wrong, I very much want to be wrong here. Just saying that any exponential growth in pace of deliveries is undermined by an inchworm approach to moving its product.

Fair enough on me being selective.

I agree that they did a big ramp and it will be slower than that for a while but hopefully the "not ramp" is still 10-20 forum deliveries a week instead of the zero that we had at the start of Q1. The longer term trend looks good as they seem to be producing more each month than the last. ?

 

[mgc0216]

You are being a bit selective in my statement. Sure Q1 demonstrated evidence of a short-term spike of rising deliveries in the latter part of March. Far quieter so far since suggesting Rivian emptied out "all its bullets." Clearing its own factory lot and delivery centers of stocked inventory.

Don't get me wrong, I very much want to be wrong here. Just saying that any exponential growth in pace of deliveries is undermined by an inchworm approach to moving its product.

I don't think they cleared out their backlog of vehicles (They have at least 1200 they produced they didn't deliver). I think what they did was go back to "normal" operations.

Rivian employees were all hands on deck basically all through March - now they are back to a more normal "40 hour" week. Reports from members in the last few days say that centers like Bellevue have a bunch of trucks on site, so there are still "bullets"

So, yes, I agree the overall pace is slowing, but I don't think it's for the reasons you said. And we will likely see a repeat in about 8 weeks where they pick up the pace significantly again. But, we should also see a nice steady stream of deliveries, just not the flurry was saw early on.

 

[Greenwater]

I'm May June, in the Seattle area. I have no guide, I'd like delivery est info from Rivian. The assignment to guides seems random at best.

The chat people at Rivian never tell me anything but my delivery range hasn't changed. Today I changed from forest edge to black mountain, hopefully that will wake them up. It's irritating for all to have these very different experiences. The fellow up thread who wanted OC but had a guide, why?, since OC is coming later probably.

I just want basic info - like - you are coming late in the range, or your choice of xyz makes it harder, if you switched to abc it could come faster. Or even "we can't predict when it will be ready".

 

[staples]

That's what the forum is for. The collective knowledge of the forums has been the best way to intuit the methods and schedules of anything. All jokes aside their contact, build, and delivery schedules are quite infuriating. The Rivian answer for everything is "soon." When will I get my truck? S00n. Why can't you tell me an exact date? s00n. ...

Ultimately even if they gave you a date, it is quite possible to change. Just look at all the stories on here of step 8 purgatory, or failed delivery attempts. You'll get your truck ... s00n.

Once Rivian is through their backlog of reservations, we all have our trucks, and they are able to produce vehicles at the rate of orders, then none of this will not matter.

 

[HJP1]

I'm supposed to be April/May and as of yet no contact from guide. Getting a little anxious because I'm trying to coordinate delivery with my need for a vehicle mid to late May, we'll see???? I also changed my interior from ocean to black based on posts that ocean will delay delivery.

 

[LaunchGreen]

I'm supposed to be April/May and as of yet no contact from guide. Getting a little anxious because I'm trying to coordinate delivery with my need for a vehicle mid to late May, we'll see???? I also changed my interior from ocean to black based on posts that ocean will delay delivery.

They have finished up the batch of Black Mountain - you'll now have to wait for the next BM batch in August.

 

[diz]

I heard a theory that some of what goes into selection is the amount of time since you last changed your configuration.

For instance, if someone like me, who reserved in early 2019, messed around with the configuration constantly. I may not be contacted as early as someone who put in their reservation in mid 2021 and locked in their specs and never changed them from the beginning.

The consistency of the configuration would suggest confidence in the algorithm that producing said truck was a safe bet.

 

[Scoiatael]

Pace of deliveries has definitely gone down since the end of the quarter rush. Rivian is going to have to speed things up if they plan on getting out 15k R1T vehicles.

 

[mgc0216]

There are going to be a lot of Adventure trims delivered before all the LEs are complete. They aren't going to deliver a truck to someone who is 2000 miles away from the nearest service center. Priority delivery means if you have an LE and your neighbor has an Adventure Trim, and they have the parts to build both, they will build the LE first and deliver it to you first.

i had my test drive today and I mentioned adventure trim deliveries to the Rivian employee. He said basically it mostly comes down to how ready areas are to service the vehicles - and that we're lucky in Oregon / Washington and that they weren't going to deliver a truck to someone in BFE who is nowhere near a center.

 

[SeaGeo]

i had my test drive today and I mentioned adventure trim deliveries to the Rivian employee. He said basically it mostly comes down to how ready areas are to service the vehicles - and that we're lucky in Oregon / Washington and that they weren't going to deliver a truck to someone in BFE who is nowhere near a center.

I know of at least one person with a truck in Sioux Falls. That's not close to a SC.

It seems like most, if not all, of the recent R1T deliveries in WA were east of the cascades. Which is great.

I just don't see being near a service center as a particularly helpful feature at the moment. If anything, being in WA seems like a problem because there are so many orders and they don't seem to be getting trucks out of the SC particularly quickly at the moment.

Which could be for a myriad of reasons. Maybe they're waiting on parts before delivering trucks, and it will pick up soon. Who knows.

 

[mgc0216]

I know of at least one person with a truck in Sioux Falls. That's not close to a SC.

It seems like most, if not all, of the recent R1T deliveries in WA were east of the cascades. Which is great.

I just don't see being near a service center as a particularly helpful feature at the moment. If anything, being in WA seems like a problem because there are so many orders and they don't seem to be getting trucks out of the SC particularly quickly at the moment.

Which could be for a myriad of reasons. Maybe they're waiting on parts before delivering trucks, and it will pick up soon. Who knows.

Can't say I disagree with you, just repeating what the gent told me.

 

[SeaGeo]

Can't say I disagree with you, just repeating what the gent told me.

And to clarify, I'm not complaining. They're doing what they need to do, and I suspect the Midwestern service centers have excess capacity while the ones on the coasts are overwhelmed. Just pushing back on the idea that being near a SC is a significant benefit. At least until you start crossing the border or the ocean (CA, AK, HI).

 

[Mysta]

I heard a theory that some of what goes into selection is the amount of time since you last changed your configuration.

For instance, if someone like me, who reserved in early 2019, messed around with the configuration constantly. I may not be contacted as early as someone who put in their reservation in mid 2021 and locked in their specs and never changed them from the beginning.

The consistency of the configuration would suggest confidence in the algorithm that producing said truck was a safe bet.

That seems rubbish as one of the adventure trims just had charged theirs.

 

[crashmtb]

I know of at least one person with a truck in Sioux Falls. That's not close to a SC.

I am compelled to point out the closest service centre to Sioux Falls is in a suburb of Minneapolis, that’s like 3.5 hours driving. A leisurely jaunt by prairie standards ??

Suspect the Minneapolis service centre has lots of capacity to make deliveries to more faraway places compared to facilities in more densely populated areas.

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