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First Electric Vehicle Rolls Off Production Line in Normal

After months of production delays, the first full-battery electric R1T truck from Rivian Automotive is now on Illinois roadways.

 

Rivian founder and CEP RJ Scaringe (LIKE SYRINGE) posted a variety of photos on social media on Tuesday, showing blue R1T trucks rolling off the assembly lines in the Twin-Cities. Scaringe spoke to the workforce at the plant on Tuesday.

 

 

The California-based company has dumped over $1 billion into their manufacturing plant in Normal, which will also produce thousands of delivery vans for Amazon. Rivian, who has raised around $8 billion since the start of 2019, has the backings from major companies such as Ford and Amazon. According to a plant spokesperson, the workforce is expected to increase to around 4-thousand employees sometime next year.

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