Rivian will now promote its industrial van to any fleet, beginning at $79,900

Rumors leaked final week, and now it’s official: the Rivian Business Van is now obtainable to order for fleets of any measurement, even all the way down to a single van – however nonetheless just for companies, not people.

Rivian first introduced it might make electrical supply vans in 2019, as a part of a partnership with Amazon, who ordered 100,000 of the automobiles. The corporate has delivered round 20,000 of the vans to Amazon to date.

The Amazon settlement included a 4 yr exclusivity interval, the place Rivian would solely promote vans to Amazon, and no different patrons. That exclusivity interval led to November 2023, and Rivian has been providing up its van to different companions.

When that interval ended, Rivian additionally renamed its car from the “Electrical Supply Van” to “Rivian Business Car,” indicating that it wish to promote it for functions apart from deliveries – suppose contractors, handymen, meals vans (please! I hate smelling exhaust as a substitute of meals!) and so forth.

It didn’t take lengthy for Rivian to get some curiosity from different corporations, and we’ve seen spy photographs of Rivian vans in different liveries roaming round. However we haven’t heard another enormous agreements because the exclusivity interval ended.

However right this moment, as a substitute of aiming for big contracts and partnerships just like the Amazon deal, Rivian is now introducing a fleet gross sales program that can take orders from fleets of any measurement – whilst small as a single van.

The RCV is available in two separate fashions – RCV 500 and RCV 700. The latter is each longer and wider, with rather more cargo house.

As with most industrial gross sales, these are clearly the pre-upfit costs. Your remaining price will rely on what kind of upfitting you might want to do. Rivian says that its Fleet Gross sales staff will work with patrons to debate particular upfit wants, or you possibly can at all times take it to whichever upfitter you already use.

However that’s one essential observe right here: although Rivian is promoting these automobiles to fleets of any measurement, they’re nonetheless promoting the automobiles to fleets, not people. Every van should be registered to a enterprise, so that you vanlifers is likely to be out of luck for now (otherwise you’ll need to get artistic).

Rivian says that it’s going to begin taking orders for its industrial van this month, with deliveries beginning in April. So attain out to Rivian fleet gross sales if you wish to get what you are promoting on the checklist.

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