Rivian Van Mock Ups

[jjswan33]

at 19.95 per day I'd rent one permanently!

It's a trick... you forgot about the 0.99/mile they add on a uHaul.

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[fudgedragon44]

I made some mockups of future Rivian vans. What companies could Rivian partner with?

in all seriousness, why not Blue Origin, also founded by Jeff Bezos? I work at Cape Canaveral and was behind a Blue Origin truck - Chevy Silverado - not 30 minutes ago. Get some R1Ts and EDVs in the mix out here. It’s an EV savvy workforce and our utility FPL is on a big EV push and has a huge presence here installing big solar farms. A natural fit in my book.

 

[monzarottie]

How about as a Taco Truck?! ?

 

[RayzorBEV]

I made some mockups of future Rivian vans. What companies could Rivian partner with?

Las Vega's infamous mobile billboard van?

 

[ravian]

The competition

Is that a photoshop or did someone really fathom a vehicle design this “weird”?

 

[mikef]

I can’t figure out why electric utilities aren’t electrifying their fairly large fleets.

They literally would be making their own fuel and billing rate payers for it. If that’s not a financial incentive, I don’t know what is.

I work at a power company (that got some R1Ts to see how they work in a fleet). The industry is working on it. The fleet has two kinds of vehicles--big pickup trucks & vans and the other type is the big DOT trucks. Pickups & vans are easier to switch to EV but also in recent years the industry has already done things to reduce the amount of vehicle rolls, like going to smart metering. There is only a minuscule amount of human meter reading that goes on compared to a decade or two ago for example.

The big motivator is EVs eliminate idling and have much lower maintenance. Also accounting-wise paying workers for mileage can be more expensive than providing a company vehicle to drive--O&M versus capital spending.

A big concern with the bigger trucks and bucket trucks is working storms--the vehicles go for multiple long days at a time and often have to go off-roading and out in the woods or other rural places, and spend overnight at random hotels. Even if the power company put in enough plugs for their normal fleet at an office, if there's a big storm and a hundred vehicles are there, how are you going to handle that? Or for hurricanes, the staging locations are open fields with thousands of big crew trucks lined up waiting for the storm to pass in the next state over.

 

[hilld]

It's a trick... you forgot about the 0.99/mile they add on a uHaul.

But you could live it in for $600/month as an apartment #vanlife if you don't drive it anywhere.

 

[COdogman]

Is that a photoshop or did someone really fathom a vehicle design this “weird”?

Unfortunately it's real:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oshkosh_NGDV

 

[Zoidz]

Unfortunately it's real:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oshkosh_NGDV

"Described as the 'duck-billed option', Oshkosh's NGDV has been designed to maximize interior volume and outward visibility for drivers who will be required to move against traffic in pedestrian-heavy areas. It is also tall enough for a person to stand inside and work. "

 

[jjwolf120]

Wow that is cybertruck level ugly.

I would disagree. The postal vehicle makes the cybertruck look attractive.

 

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[CrazyOne]

The competition

Looks like an ugly version of

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