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Rivian’s CEO has ‘complete certainty’ EVs will win

Rivian’s future looks bright and cloudy at the same time.

While it’s not uncommon to pack a room with fans for a vehicle launch, it is unusual for the CEO of a car company outside of Elon Musk to get the kind of response that Scaringe did. The reality is that Tesla continues to be wildly successful, and we want to pull from that 93 percent that haven’t made the jump to pure EV, because the form factor didn’t fit their lifestyle.” Scaringe says that he sees three worlds colliding at the moment: a lack of choice for electric vehicle buyers, the political and policy environment, and the current global state of affairs, which affects everything from the supply chains to the availability of raw materials for batteries and chips.

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