Rivians, to date, are expensive vehicles. Take a stroll around the Internet and it’s not hard to find a story about a fender bender turning into a $42,000 headache, or $41,000 repair job that really shouldn’t cost that much. The man in charge of Rivian agrees that’s insanity and shouldn’t be.
In Park City, Utah, during an exclusive interview on the latest episode ofThe Drivecast Rivian Founder and CEO RJ Scaringe said, “There’s no collision repair that should cost tens of thousands of dollars.”
Listen to the entire conversation starting at the moment Scaringe talks about repair costs below.
The two main reasons the R1 is so expensive to repair is the fact that it’s made of aluminum and the way in which Rivian designed its first vehicle. “We used a one-piece body side, and so that means if you damage like the rear fender, the repair operation, depending on the level of the damage, you can either do body work or you have to cut out a portion of the panel, re-weld the new panel on,” Scaringe said.
The team knows this is a …
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Author: Joel Feder
