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Inside Rivian’s $4,500 electric bike gamble

Before RJ Scaringe founded the adventure-themed EV company Rivian, he was thinking about bikes.

Well, not bikes exactly. More like pedal-powered hybrid microcars and other forms of alternative transportation. This was three years before Scaringe launched Rivian, and nearly 13 years before the company eventually came out of stealth. By then, Scaringe had decided against building such a vehicle, concluding that the market would be too small, limited to a niche group of enthusiasts like himself.

Still, it would have been cool, right? A Rivian-designed minicar? “It would have been so cool,” Scaringe recalls in an interview with The Verge.

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Rivian’s AI pivot is about more than chasing Tesla

RJ Scaringe is sitting in Rivian's Palo Alto offices, explaining why the adventure-themed EV company suddenly decided to build its own self-driving cars, when an unexpected guest glides by the window outside: Waymo. A robotaxi from the Alphabet-owned company pulls up outside the office. The passenger, an analyst from Goldman…

December 20, 2025

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Rivian’s e-bike leaks ahead of next month’s announcement

A frame from Also’s October 22nd announcement teaser. | Image: Also Rivian’s heavily financed micromobilty spinoff Also is promising something on October 22nd. Also’s calling it “transcendent mobility,” which is a fancy way of saying e-bike after a poorly masked video leaked the rather unique design. While Also is a…

September 18, 2025

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Amazon wants to buy ‘thousands’ of Rivian’s pedal-assist cargo bikes

Amazon and Rivian are back together again. The e-commerce giant is collaborating with Rivian’s Also spinoff on a custom-designed, pedal-assisted, four-wheel cargo bike. The bike would likely be based on the TM-Q quad vehicle that was unveiled by Also today in San Francisco. Amazon says it wants to expand its…

October 22, 2025

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