At night, the girlfriend always complains that Brother Man cares about brushing the mobile phone, and Brother Man is dismissive, she does not understand. Now the trend has become so fast, do not brush the mobile phone to catch up with the hot spots, in case you can't keep up, how to blow water with fans in the future? For example, the three car companies with the largest market value in the world today, the first is Tesla, the second is Toyota, and the third is who you know?
Not Volkswagen, not Ford, not GM, not BMW Mercedes-Benz or anything. It is a new car company that no one has ever heard of, called Rivian. This is an electric vehicle start-up brand in the United States, equivalent to what we call a new force, after the IPO in November, the market value quickly exceeded 100 billion US dollars, surpassing volkswagen to squeeze into the top three.
First of all, the little-known Rivian currently has only two models, the first is the electric pickup truck R1T, with a wheelbase of 3450mm. Powerful, four wheels equipped with independent 147kW motors, the combined maximum power of 588kW, so that zero hundred acceleration in just 3 seconds, the pickup truck ran out of the super running level. With an endurance of about 500 kilometers, the 11,000 pounds of traction also makes it stand out from the crowd in a full-size pickup.
The other is an SUV called the R1S. The wheelbase is also 3450mm, with a three-row, 7-seat layout. The power is also nothing new, consistent with the pickup truck R1T above. So whether from the appearance, wheelbase and power point of view, it is actually the R1T with a shell.
In fact, Rivian's biggest "killer" in core technology is this "skateboard chassis". This means that the non-load-bearing body structure, battery pack, drive unit, suspension, brake and thermal system and other components are all integrated on the chassis. In this way, the new car only needs to design a new shell on the line, the sofa is moved up, the center console is stacked, the shell is put on, and it is finished.
Many people also think that in fact, this is just to make the modular platform used by car companies more extreme. But in this way, the car becomes a bit tasteless, homogenized, and not to mention what driving experience. In fact, no matter what driving experience people have, electric vehicles are not like fuel vehicles, as long as the comfort, safety, and overall performance are improved.
In addition to the skateboard chassis, Rivian of course has other aspects of the technology, otherwise how to mix to the third in the market value? However, it is not a very unique thing, such as an independently developed set of Driver+ L2 level automatic driving system, and passenger cognitive monitoring system, in fact, it is also something that exists at present, and the implementation logic and method may be different.
How to see, these technologies do not seem to be a fatal thing, compared to the emergence of Tesla, the difference is too much. Moreover, Rivian's R1T and T1S models, only the pickup truck R1T achieved mass production and sold more than 100 vehicles. However, this only sold more than 100 vehicles, all of which are sold to internal employees, which is equivalent to the market, this car is still 0 delivery status. Special Meow 0 delivery can already be rolled into the market value of 100 billion US dollars!
Of course, Tesla's horse can't look down, after all, his family also has an electric pickup truck, and the limelight has been robbed of it? It's not unreasonable to tweet, but shouldn't they deliver at least one car for every $1 billion valuation before the IPO?
In fact, Rivian can also get a market value of 100 billion US dollars with zero delivery, which is also a lot of Saoma. Tesla at that time, the market value has now risen to nearly a trillion US dollars, the first in the universe. People think that Rivian may be the next Tesla, don't smash the coffin book into it and buy it at the bottom, when will it stay? Not to mention that pickup trucks have an extremely promising outlook in the U.S. market.
Rivian, on the other hand, also has big guys behind it. Amazon and Ford are both shareholders in Rivian, holding 19% and 12% of the shares respectively, and the impact is not small.
Amazon's Bezos, like Musk, is a human flesh billboard, give Rivian a publicity, and the capital market will immediately climax. In order to support the car companies it invested in, Amazon placed an order for 100,000 vehicles from Rivian as early as 2019. It is also full of confidence for investors.
In the end, whether the American new car company can get out of the controversy like Tesla, it is still too early to say anything. Anyway, Boss Jia, who is also on the other side of the ocean, saw this posture and estimated that he had the heart to cry and die in the toilet.
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