Rivian delivered 19,248 vehicles in Q3 2026 and kept its full-year guidance at 65,000 to 70,000. Its deliveries for the year so far are already within a few hundred of its total for all of 2025.
Rivian has named Known its new media agency of record, with R2 as the focus. Known's co-founder says the goal is to introduce Rivian to a much broader group of buyers.
Rivian officially has its motor vehicle dealer license in Washington after years of working on it. That means an easier buying experience for anyone in the Pacific Northwest looking to get into a Rivian.
Honeywell Aerospace has sued Rivian over seven patents it says cover tech like sensor fusion, hazard detection, and autonomous navigation. Lucid got hit with its own lawsuit the same day, less than three months after Honeywell Aerospace became an independent company.
RJ Scaringe told The New York Times that Chinese automakers will likely be able to sell in the U.S. eventually, and that tariffs are what's keeping things balanced until then. He also sees robotics as the other way American manufacturing closes the cost gap.
RJ Scaringe told The New York Times that R3 will land "materially lower" in price than R2, and that R4 will push prices down even further. There's no pricing or timeline yet, but it's the clearest look so far at where Rivian's lineup is headed.
Claire McDonough is leaving Rivian after nearly six years, with her final day set for October 30, 2026. Derek Mulvey, currently VP of Finance, is expected to step in as interim CFO while Rivian searches internally and externally for a permanent replacement. Here is what the timing means heading into the R2 ramp.
Rivian released site plans and renderings for its $5 billion Georgia plant, showing an industrial core wrapped in roughly 1,000 acres of preserved woodland with a museum, walking trails, eco-cabins, campsites and an off-road test track. Buildings go vertical in 2027 with customer vehicle production targeted for 2028.
Rivian posted $1.658 billion in Q2 revenue with only three weeks of R2 deliveries in the mix, raised full year guidance again, and put a $100 million price tag on the early R2 ramp.
Rivian has filed suit in the U.S. Court of International Trade seeking a full refund of the tariffs it paid under duties the Supreme Court later ruled unconstitutional. The company says the ruling alone does not guarantee importers get their money back.
