Rivian Reportedly Removes Mobileye Hardware From New Gen 2 Vehicles

Back in August, Rivian quietly shipped one of the more important software updates we have seen in a while. With update 2025.26, a friend of the site, u/mpshizzle on Reddit, spent time testing Gen 2 behavior and noticed something interesting. Rivian appeared to have fully transitioned to using its own in-house autonomy hardware, even though Mobileye hardware was still physically present in those vehicles.

Fast forward to today, and we are now hearing that shift is official on the manufacturing side as well.

Sources at Rivian have told RivianTrackr that newly built Gen 2 R1 vehicles coming out of the Normal, Illinois plant are no longer including Mobileye hardware at all. In other words, Rivian vehicles are now shipping with Rivian’s own autonomy stack exclusively, both in software and hardware. Removing Mobileye from the bill of materials also means Rivian is cutting per-vehicle costs, something that matters a lot as the company continues to push toward sustained profitability.

This change didn’t happen overnight. When Mobileye hardware was still present in early Gen 2 builds, it increasingly looked like a transitional holdover rather than something Rivian planned to rely on long term. Update 2025.26 was the first real sign that Rivian’s autonomy platform was ready to stand fully on its own, at least from a functional perspective.

The timing here is also hard to ignore. Rivian’s first ever Autonomy Day is just days away, and the company has already said it plans to showcase its autonomy and AI roadmap. Moving completely off Mobileye hardware ahead of that event sends a pretty clear signal about where Rivian sees its future, fully vertically integrated, owning the hardware, the software, and the data pipeline end to end.

None of this has been formally announced by Rivian yet, and details could still evolve. But between real-world testing, confirmation from sources, and upcoming corporate messaging, it feels like Rivian is laying the groundwork for a much bigger autonomy push.

If this is the baseline, Autonomy Day should be where Rivian finally connects the dots and shows owners and investors exactly what building everything in-house enables next.