Rivian is emailing customers who have a Rivian R1 to inform them that they are “temporarily pausing custom configurations as we (Rivian) prepare for some retooling and improvements at our (Rivian Normal) plant.” The email also advertises an R1S with a Standard battery starting at $74,900 with deliveries within 1-4 weeks.

Rivian is simplifying pricing by moving all customers to today’s pricing and then providing preorder holders a voucher to honor original preorder pricing. Preorder holders will have until September 30, 2024, to use this voucher or you will lose the preorder pricing. tl;dr – use it or lose it It makes sense, you can’t continue to honor old pricing forever and this seems like a reasonable way to solve this issue.

Eric Wood who’s VP of User Experience at Rivian shared the following: “During the Rivian R2/R3 reveal, the world got its first glimpse of the revolutionary Rivian halo roller haptic system, a project that I’ve been working on for the past 2 years. This system provides a naturally intuitive, tactile cockpit control system that breaks the mold of traditional steering wheel controls. The system features two 6-direction haptic wheels that can simulate movements in all dimensions including variable roller detents…