Customers were required to put down a refundable $100 deposit. Today, Ford CEO Jim Farley told CNBC that the company took 20,000 reservations for the truck in the 12 hours since its big reveal on Wednesday night. A check of Rivian’s hiring plans for Seattle and Bellevue reinforced the impression left by signage at the construction site - and Rivian later confirmed the site will indeed be a service center.Įlectric trucks took the spotlight in the automotive world this week, thanks to Ford’s all-electric F-150 Lightning pickup. This week, we spotted a Rivian service center taking shape on Bellevue’s Auto Row, near the intersection of Northeast Eighth Street and 116th Avenue Northeast. Overview The 2022 Rivian R1T is a futuristic-looking all-electric pickup truck that boasts four electric motors, lightning-quick acceleration, and 314 miles of estimated range. Technically speaking, Rivian’s showroom isn’t the same as a dealership: Customers will be able to see the vehicles up close and take a test drive, but they won’t be able to drive a truck off the lot. In March, the Daily Journal of Commerce reported that Rivian’s Seattle showroom will be in the one-time home of the Federal Army & Navy Surplus Store - in the Belltown neighborhood, not far from Pike Place Market and the Amazon Spheres. A facility that appears to be a Rivian service center is taking shape on Bellevue’s Auto Row. Rivian says it’s opening 10 showrooms and more than 40 service centers in the U.S. Deposits of $1,000 continue to be taken for later rounds. InsideEVs reports that Rivian has a full-up waiting list of about 30,000 customers for the first wave of deliveries. The all-electric R1S, priced at $70,000 and up, is scheduled to roll out in August.

The R1T truck, which carries a base list price starting at $67,500, is due to be delivered beginning in June. Last month, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos showed off the R1T in a video made for his Blue Origin space venture. The company’s Puget Sound presence is apt, considering that Seattle-based Amazon is one of Rivian’s marquee investors and has pledged to buy 100,000 electric vans from Rivian for its nationwide delivery fleet. Rivian, the California-based electric vehicle startup that some call the “Tesla of Trucks,” is setting up a showroom in Seattle and a service center in nearby Bellevue for this year’s scheduled rollout of its R1T all-electric pickup truck and R1S sport utility vehicle. Rivian’s logo adorns a building taking shape on Bellevue’s Auto Row.

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