The Rivian Electric Amazon Delivery Van Is Highly Innovative and Incredibly Cool

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This is a delivery van. That sounds boring, but this certainly isn't boring. That's because this
is the Rivian EDV, which stands for electric delivery van. This is a fully electric delivery
van that Rivian has created just for Amazon to deliver packages. This thing is very interesting,
and today I'm going to review it and show you all of its many quirks and features.
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Check it out at CarsAndBids.com. All right, time for the quirks and features of the Rivian
Amazon electric van. But first, let me give you a little overview of exactly what this is.
Okay, so Rivian makes electric vehicles, the R1S electric SUV and the R1T electric truck,
two of my very favorite electric vehicles. I've done reviews of them. They've got millions of
views. Go watch. Amazon sends you packages and does a lot of other things. You know Amazon.
Amazon is an investor in Rivian, and Amazon has a corporate goal of switching to 100%
renewable energy within the next few years. You can see where this is going. Amazon calls up their
partners, Rivian, and says, hey, can you build us an electric delivery van? So Rivian says,
yeah, sure. And so they created this, the EDV, literally electric delivery van. Now,
this rides on the same platform and uses the same architecture as the R1S and R1T,
and it's built in the same factory in Illinois. It's just a little bit longer, and it has
obviously a completely different body, and it's front-wheel drive. The R1S and R1T are
four-wheel drive. This is front-wheel drive, although since it's all the same architecture,
theoretically, an all-wheel drive version could be made should Amazon request it.
Okay, so with that out of the way, let's go through the many quirks and features. And keep in mind,
one of the interesting things about this van is that Rivian builds it only for Amazon. That's
their only customer, so it's tremendously purpose-built, which means it has a lot of stuff
that you might not think of, but that greatly enhance the lives of Amazon package delivery
people. All sorts of interesting quirks and features. Let's start with the key, which,
well, for one thing, it has the Amazon smile on it instead of a Rivian logo, which makes sense.
Amazon is the only customer, so they can put their branding on it. But the other interesting
thing you'll notice with this key is there's no loop to hook it onto a key ring. Then again,
why should there be? Amazon package delivery people aren't going to stick it onto their key
ring. Instead, it has a little clip, so you can stick it onto clothing. The theory here is
Amazon employees will stick it onto a shirt pocket in their Amazon uniform. And then,
you can see the lock and unlock buttons are at the top of the key fob. That way,
if they want to walk away and lock the truck, they don't have to get the key out of their pocket.
It's at their shirt pocket, and the buttons are pointing up at them. Just tap them,
and it locks or unlocks, which is a pretty cool and efficient idea.
Next up, let's talk doors. This van has four doors, and they are all completely
different from one another. This is, of course, the driver's door. To open it,
you stick your hand in this little opening, you press on a little rubber button,
and then it opens up. Interestingly, this is the least important door in the entire van.
The driver's door, to get into the driver's seat, is the least important door.
The most important door in this van is this one, what you or I would call the passenger door.
In this van, you open it, there's a handle up front, you pull on it, and then it slides open.
It's a sliding door, like in a minivan. And from there, you can just climb inside, or technically,
you step inside. I say technically, because that's actually a government classification
for regulatory purposes. This is a step-in van. You just step right in.
Now, this is the most important door in the van, because package delivery drivers are in
and out of this door constantly. The driver's side door, they only get in when they're starting
their shift, and get out at the end of their shift. But this door, they pull up to a house
or a business on the sidewalk or the curbside, and they get out and in this door to deliver
packages all day long, upwards of 100 times a day sometimes. Now, when you open up this door,
you instantly start to see a few interesting quirks and features worth pointing out.
One of them is Amazon's distinctive bright blue color, which is placed strategically in little
spots throughout the interior. You look through there, and you can see that color throughout.
Again, this van is only sold to Amazon, so you might as well customize it with Amazon's colors
and keep it on brand, since they're gonna be the only ones using this vehicle. You even have some
of that bright blue Amazon color in the floor material. Little speckles of it are sprinkled
into the rest of the floor to give it kind of an extra Amazon-y touch, just a little one,
very subtle and kind of cool. Now, a couple other things worth noting from this view. For one,
you can see two blue panels on the steps to get inside. Those are a specific sticky material
intended to keep drivers from slipping. The benefit of this is obvious in northern climates,
icy days. It makes it easier to climb in the van safely without your shoes slipping when you're
getting in and out so many times per day. The other interesting thing here is you will note
this van has only two steps. Rivian told me that when they first developed these vans,
they had three steps. But as they spent time with delivery drivers, seeing how they actually
used it, they noticed that most drivers would just jump in, step, and then climb on in. They
were inside. They didn't need three steps. And in fact, having the third step actually
slowed them down. Every time getting in and out of the van, it was a couple of tenths of a second
lost. It may not seem like much, but tenths of seconds adds up to minutes, adds up to hours over
time. And so they eliminated the third step and went with just two to save that little bit of
efficiency. It seems small, but it matters. And speaking of efficiency, that brings us to the
next door, which is maybe the most interesting door in this entire van. And that would be the
one that leads from this front compartment where the driver sits into the cargo area where the
packages are. Ask any delivery driver and they'll tell you they're constantly between the driver's
seat and the cargo area, back and forth. And so having a door to go directly there is a pretty
nice thing. But this door is especially nice because it opens automatically. When you put
this van in park, the door automatically opens up. So you put it in park, go deliver packages,
and then you can just easily walk right back into the cargo area and you don't even have to open
the door. Again, a little efficiency. Opening the door doesn't take that long, but if it opens
automatically, it saves you tenths of a second here and there. And that adds up. And it's the
same deal when you want to drive away. You put the van in drive and the door automatically closes.
You don't have to do any of it. And so it saves you just a little bit of extra time, that door
opening automatically to get into the cargo area. Pretty cool idea. But anyway, when it comes to the
quirks and features of this van, there is so much more to discuss than just this stuff. Let's start
with the fact that there's only one seat. This giant van and there's only one seat for the driver
and that's it. Although when you think about it, it actually makes sense. These vans are really
only going to be used by the driver. The rest of the space should be taken up by cargo. That's the
whole point. You only need one seat, except you actually do have two seats. The other one is a
jump seat. It's positioned up against this wall until you need it. And when you do, you can lower
the bottom portion and then you have an extra seat. It has its own seat belt. It even has its
own cup holder. But Rivian tells me it's not going to be used all that often. Pretty much only when
you have an Amazon driver in training who's like shadowing one who's sitting in the main seat to
learn the ropes of the job. They'll sit in this seat until they have it all figured out. Otherwise,
this is just a single seater giant van. And next up, another notable feature of this van,
an enormous amount of grab handles to make it easier to get in and out. You can see one here
finished in Amazon bright blue to make it easier to climb up the steps. And then above that,
you have another one to help you get in and out. You also have a giant grab handle here on the
dashboard, which you can grab onto for whatever reason you might need to. Grab handles everywhere
in this van. And on the subject of ease of getting in and out, another major component of
that is the position of the driver seat. You can see it's mounted pretty high up on the floor,
and that is to allow drivers to easily just swing their legs over and get out of the van or swing
their legs over and go into the cargo area. And instead of sitting low, so drivers have to climb
over something, some big hump in the middle, twist in some weird way, this seat is perfectly
positioned so that drivers can just swivel to the side and then climb out the van or climb into the
back to go look for packages. It's made as easy as possible. Now, when you go and sit in that driver
seat, the first thing you notice is that looking out, you have an unbelievable field of view,
an incredibly massive windshield that allows you to see everything in front of you, pretty much.
It really has a huge view compared to what you'd get in a car or basically any other vehicle. And
beyond just sheer size, a couple of interesting benefits about the windshield. For one, you can
see directly in front of you. This van doesn't have much front end in front of the windshield,
as you can see. So when you're sitting in the driver's seat, there's no guesswork about where
you're positioned. You can see directly the front of the van. So a dog, a child comes out in front
of you. You can see exactly where they're positioned, which is nice. Also worth pointing
out that this windshield is heated. If you look closely, you can see heating coils running through
it. This is a really cool feature for people in cold climates with ice on the windshield. Instead
of sitting there waiting for this massive windshield to defrost, you press the button,
the coils turn on, and the ice is cleared very quickly, which is nice. And speaking of clearing
this windshield, the wipers are kind of interesting, as you might expect. Huge windshield,
weird wipers. Here's how they operate. You can see they're sort of on top of each other,
and they take turns wiping their side of the windshield. And it's just kind of funny to watch
these wipers, but that's the kind of thing you have to do when you have sort of an oddly shaped
windshield like this one. And another interesting step you got to take inside the car when you have
a windshield like this, is you have to have massive sun visors to accommodate it. And so
this van does. These sun visors are absolutely huge, and you can lower them even further.
There's like a visor extender panel in case you need even more sun blocked. You got that
capability here. And another interesting windshield item, if you look at the base of the
windshield, you can see sensors. These are the sensors for like forward collision warning, radar
cruise control, automatic wipers. They're positioned at the bottom of the windshield,
where in most cars they're at the top. The reason for that is, number one, putting them at the top
of the windshield, they're just too high. They won't actually see stuff that they need to see.
But also, Rivian told me these have to be behind a wiped surface, something that the wipers will
actually cover. And so they had to go into a place that would be within the path of the
windshield wipers. And so they're there. Rivian also told me they experimented with having a third
tiny windshield wiper just for the sensors at the top of the windshield, but that didn't really make
sense. So they put them in the bottom. Now it's worth pointing out that unfortunately, I'm not
going to be able to actually see out this large windshield today. I'm not going to be able to
drive the Rivian Amazon van. I can only show you its quirks and features. I'm sure Rivian and Amazon
have many great reasons for that, including liability, and they don't want me driving like
an idiot, but I can't drive it. I can only show you around it, but that's not so bad. There is
still oh so much more to show. Let's move on to the steering wheel, where in the center you have
the Amazon logo, not Rivian, not just a blank, the Amazon logo. Again, another example of this
car's only being sold to Amazon. So why not include their branding throughout? In fact,
the Rivian logo only appears in two places on this van. On the passenger side of the dashboard,
you can see it says powered by Rivian, and on the outside, sort of low on the side of the van,
you can see the same text there, but pretty subtle. It doesn't really brag or tell you that
it's a Rivian van, except in those places. Instead, they just decided to primarily stick to
Amazon branding. More on branding a little bit later when I get outside the van and show you
some other Amazon logos. But before I get there, a few other interesting quirks and features in
this front compartment. For one thing, there is a cup holder to the left of the steering wheel.
So in very easy reach of the driver, you got a cup holder right there so drivers can take sips
while they drive. You also have more cup holders behind the front seat, actually huge cup holders
back here and a pretty decent storage area for like the driver's personal stuff. If they have
like a lunch or a coat, they can put it back there and they got space for it in this van.
Next up, another feature I love in this van, the hazard light button, which is both huge and right
next to the steering wheel because drivers of these vans are often putting on their hazard
lights when they stop on the street. They put them on and then they jump out of the van. So
you want that to be really accessible and not hidden like it is in some cars. And next up,
here's an interesting quirk. The climate control in this van is pretty much entirely focused at
the driver. The only interior climate vents are these two directly next to the gauge cluster
focused right at the driver. You have no vents over on the passenger side. And you also have
a climate control system integrated into the driver's seat, not just like a ventilated seat,
but an actual fan with a blower that can help keep drivers cool. Rivian told me the main reason for
this was efficiency. You don't really need to heat or cool this entire cabin, which is actually a
pretty large space. You only really need to keep the driver hot or cool and adding extra climate
vents all throughout the van is just going to make it less efficient. For an electric vehicle,
that's a big deal. So they decided to focus it just at the driver. Now it is worth pointing out,
you do have a separate fan for the cargo area. There's a fan up here in the ceiling of the cargo
area, as you can see, and you turn it on in the infotainment screen. You can tap on this and that
will turn on the fan, circulate some air. So if this driver is delivering chocolates or something
else that might melt, well, you can make sure it doesn't get too hot in the back. But let's
talk about that infotainment system for a second, because it's very interesting and also very
purpose-built for this vehicle. This isn't just the standard Rivian infotainment system, even
though it's just the standard Rivian screen. It's been totally adapted for the purposes of
this van, starting with this little icon along the bottom that opens or closes the door to get
into the package area. So just in case you're driving, but you want it open or you're in park,
you want to close for whatever reason, you can open it with the push of that button and it
instantly pops open as you can see. So it's not only linked to the gear you're in, you have a
separate override. Now, also along the bottom here, you have a little tab that looks like this van
and you tap on it and there are quite a few controls for various items in the van. Like,
for instance, you can turn on your cargo lights in here to light up your cargo area so you can
see while you're sorting packages. You can also turn on your interior light in here if you like
need to read something and you can control your mirrors in this screen as well. So basic various
van controls in this tab. Now, also along the bottom here, you have a little icon that looks
like it would lead to a navigation system, but you tap on that and actually it brings up a QR code
and this is for Amazon drivers to scan. They scan this and it loads the route that they should be
taking that day based on where all their packages have to be delivered. Obviously, they calculate
the route based on the most efficient drive possible and that route loads on the screen and
so this car doesn't have like Rivian's own navigation system, but rather a handheld one
that comes integrated into the vehicle that drivers can interface with as they drop off
their packages. And next up, another interesting icon along the bottom of this screen is a heated
seat control, but just one, but that's all you need. You have a heated seat. You only need one
heated seat rare. You'll see that in a vehicle, not front heated seats, but front heated seat.
Also along the bottom here, you have controls for your radio. You can access it here, but
there actually is no radio. Rivian spent an enormous amount of time with Amazon drivers
when developing this vehicle to figure out what they did and didn't use and how they operated.
And they discovered most drivers just played Bluetooth music from their device. And so a radio
was taken out, decided there was no point in spending the money to include it since most
drivers didn't use it anyway. So you have Bluetooth audio, but no AM FM radio in this van.
And speaking of devices, there are a few places you can charge. Under the center screen,
this pad here is a wireless charging pad. So just stick your device there and it'll charge. But
also in this area, you have two USB ports, A and C, so you can charge with whatever cord you have.
Also interesting in this interior outside the infotainment system is an SOS button,
which is located here and it contacts emergency services instantly, which is a great idea.
If something's happening, if you're having a medical issue, if you see an accident,
you can tap that button and contact 911 very easily without having to pull out a phone and
dial it. Nice to have that there. On the other side of the steering wheel, you also have a
camera button. You press that and you can pull up a full camera angle showing all around the vehicle
to help you aid in parking or tight spaces or whatever, and just let you see where you're
going. Nice to have that, so easy within reach. But anyway, next up, time to climb out of the car
through the driver's side door. And to get out, it's an electronic popper. You press this button,
the door pops, and then you push it open from there. There is also a manual release, as you can
see, a lever just in case the electronic popper fails. You can pull that and get out as a backup.
Now, one interesting thing about this door, it has a window that rolls down, of course,
but then it has a second window above that window, which is odd. I asked the Rivian people
about this. They told me it's there for two reasons. Number one, to increase visibility.
In a vehicle like this, there's no such thing as too much visibility. But the other reason is
the space that the door occupies needed to be identical in size and shape to the space
on the other side that the door occupies because Rivian plans to offer a right-hand drive version
of this van for Amazon in Europe, Australia, South Africa, wherever. And so to make sure that
they didn't have to make two different shelves and doors and door openings, they have the same
door opening on both sides. Pretty interesting. Now, on the subject of visibility, one interesting
thing about this van is it has no interior rear view mirror mounted on the windshield. Like a lot
of cars, there isn't one, which I guess makes sense because there's no rear window. A lot of
cargo vans don't have a mirror there. The benefit is this van has an enormous amount of cameras that
can help you see pretty much all around at any given time. Not really a problem. And this van
also has an enormous amount of safety features you wouldn't really expect in a cargo van. In fact,
it has pretty much the same stuff as a Rivian SUV or truck, which means lane departure warning
and lane keep assist, automatic forward collision braking. You even have driver assist, meaning the
van will steer, brake, accelerate for you, just like some of the very best, most technologically
advanced vehicles on the market. Well, now it's in a packaged delivery van. And next up, we move
into the cargo area in the Rivian van, where you'll discover that this part of the van is less
cool, interesting, quirky, and more just, well, van, actually. Although there still are a few
interesting items worth noting back here. For one thing, I can stand up, which is pretty cool. Rivian
told me that they made this compartment stand up-able for the 95th percentile of humans. So
most people will be able to stand up back here, no problem, which is really nice. You don't have
to constantly be leaning over or bending over when you're reaching into this van. You can just walk
through it like it's a room. Now, the other cool thing about this cargo area is the shelving units,
which are specifically designed for Amazon. Amazon packaged delivery drivers use something
called totes, which are like giant bags that carry all of the packages. And these shelves were
perfectly sized to carry those totes. And that means that Amazon doesn't have to buy a van from
another competitor and then go and outfit it with shelves that perfectly fit their totes, because
this van is designed for their totes. It comes like this from the factory. Just plug and play. Get in
and start package delivering. Now, a couple of other interesting things in here. For one thing,
the floor. In the central part where people walk, it's rubber, which helps keep you from slipping,
just like those sticky pads on the steps that I showed you earlier. Also interesting is the
shelves at the back of the cargo area can lift up. As you can see, they can fold up. That's for taller
packages. So if you're delivering some tall packages, you don't have a place for them,
lift those up and you can stick them right there. You will also see that the dolly has a specific
spot back there in case you need it to deliver packages. You know where it lives. And maybe the
most interesting thing in this back area is the final door in this van, which is actually a garage
door. You can see the garage door tracks like you might have in your garage at home. They're in this
van. And to open the garage door from the inside, you press this little button over on the side of
the door, it pops open, and then you can lift it up from there the rest of the way. And then you
can climb out. Same deal from the outside. You have a little button over to the side. As you can see,
press that, the door pops open, and then you lift up the garage door the rest of the way.
Now, the cool thing about this garage door is you don't have to worry about it swinging
out and hitting something behind you or swinging open on the side and hitting something next to
you because the garage door can open up within the van. So opening the door doesn't add to your
footprint at all. And it helps improve package delivery capabilities. And you might be wondering
what happens if someone tries to drive off with the garage door open. The answer is you get a
massive warning in the gauge cluster reminding you that it's open and telling you to go close
it right away. You can drive with it open. And there are some situations where it may make sense
to do that. But it's really annoying to do it. So you'll pretty much want it closed all the time.
And next up, since I'm moving outside the van, let's come out here and talk about design and
styling of this van, because there are some very interesting things to mention on the outside.
We'll start here in back, where one of the first things you'll notice is a tail light that goes
up and over the top of the van, spanning basically half of the rear, the entire sides, the top.
It is very distinctive. Rivian told me, as you might guess, visibility was a major goal here.
People are stopping in these vans, getting out, delivering packages. They don't want them to get
hit. And so you have this massive taillight to make the vans more visible. The brake lights and
turn signals are at the very lowest part, sort of in the center on the sides, pretty much where
you'd expect. But the upper taillight is certainly distinctive. Another distinctive item back here,
kind of interesting, is this black plastic piece that basically frames the entire rear of the van,
goes around the entire cargo door. Kind of interesting. It integrates a few things. Number
one is the step to get into the cargo area. That's sort of integrated as part of this black frame,
as opposed to some cargo vehicles where the step just sticks out the back and it looks stupid.
Now it almost seems like it was meant to be there. You also have on the sides, the grab handles
integrated into this area. Again, more grab handles to make it easier to climb into the van.
You got them on both sides to make it especially easy. And once you have the garage door open,
another grab handle on the inside to, once again, make it easy to climb inside.
Maybe the most interesting thing about the back of the van, though, is the sound that it makes
when backing up. Vehicles like this are required by regulation to make a sound, but it doesn't have
to be the annoying beep, beep, beep you constantly hear. Instead, this is the sound. Apparently,
the sound was specially developed to be less annoying. Pedestrians walking along still notice
it, still take notice, still move out of the way, but people in buildings don't have to have their
day disrupted by the beeping, which is high-pitched and annoying. Apparently, that's the theory behind
that sound anyway. But the most distinctive part about the outside of this van is the front, which
is, let's be honest here, kind of cute. It has kind of a cute, cheeky, cool little front end.
Makes you feel like it's a friend. And I met the Rivian designer for this van and other Rivian
products, and he told me that was intentional. These vans are going to be in neighborhoods where
people are walking their dogs and kids are playing, and they don't want it to look like some
big, ugly commercial vehicle. They want it to seem cute, like it fits in, like it's friendly.
And that's exactly what you have. Hence the round headlights in front, this big black grill. It looks
friendly and optimistic up front. And Amazon's logo being the smile, it all sort of integrates
into kind of this friendly, happy, smiley vehicle, at least up front. And by the way, a couple of
interesting quirks in the front. For one thing, if you look into the headlights, you can see tiny
little Amazon smiles hidden in there. A nice little Easter egg most people probably won't
notice. And also in the front, you have the Amazon logo right up front again. Like I said, no real
Rivian branding on this vehicle because they're all being sold to Amazon. So you might as well
brand it for Amazon. Also up front, you have this cap here, which is of course where you add
windshield washer fluid. This front compartment panel doesn't open up. Since this is electric,
there's no engine under here where you might have to service. So the only real serviceability item
you might need in front is the washer fluid, and that's where it is. Now also up front, on the front
fender on the driver's side, you have this little panel, which is of course the charge port. You
press it, pop it open, and this is where you charge your Rivian Amazon van. And on the subject of
charging, let's talk about power and performance. All of these Rivian Amazon vans are front-wheel
drive. But like I said, they could offer an all-wheel drive version in theory, since it's the
same basic architecture as the truck and the SUV, both of which are four-wheel drive. But for now,
these are front-wheel drive with a single motor. So basically, it's half a Rivian R1T or half a
Rivian R1S, just the front-wheel drive. But that means it's still pretty big power. Those vehicles
have like 850 horsepower. This has about half that, 425 horsepower in the front wheels. Zero to
60 is apparently around eight seconds. These are pretty spry vehicles, given that they're large
vans, and that was intentional. If you're dropping off a package and you need to merge back into
traffic quickly, this van can do it. And then we must talk about the side of this van, which is
actually quite interesting. These vans are technically called the EDV, which stands for
electric delivery van or electric delivery vehicle. I don't know, and nobody says it.
This is the Amazon Rivian van, but technically it's the EDV. And this is the EDV 700, which is
called that because it has about 700 cubic feet of cargo space for packages in back. There is also a
smaller model called the EDV 500, which is named that because it has 500 cubic feet of storage.
Now, the way you can tell them apart quickly is the number of panels on the side. Four panels
on the EDV 700, as you can see here. One, two, three, four. The 500 only has three panels. And
indeed, it is effectively just this van, but with one less panel. And one of the cool things about
using the Rivian architecture is it's totally modular. They could also make a longer one,
an EDV 900 if they wanted to, or theoretically an even shorter one. It's all just the number
of panels you add or subtract depending on the size of van you want. Now, the EDV 500 is
specifically designed and intended for use in tighter, denser urban areas. New York City,
Washington DC, and also in Europe. And so those vans are not only shorter, but also narrower in
length. And in fact, one interesting thing is that when Rivian narrows this van to create the EDV 500,
on the inside, that just means removing this panel from the dashboard. They take that out,
and then the narrower van is built. And that allows them to keep the same dashboard panel
for both vans, rather than having one wide van panel and one small van panel that would cost
them more money. Now, one thing you will also notice on the side of this van is that there's
no arch over the rear wheels. Instead, it's just straight and flat and sort of partially covers
that rear wheel. Two big reasons for this. One is aerodynamics. Putting that cover over the rear
wheel helps with aero, and it helps to add range, which is why other automakers do it as well. The
Insight originally had that same cover over the rear wheel, same deal with the Honda Clarity,
also a cover over the rear wheel, and you see it here as well for aero. But another reason they do
this is to make sure that the panels on the side of the van are uniform. If the rear wheel had an
arch over it, then the rear panels would also be arched to go over that wheel. But by not doing
this, each panel on the side of the van is a uniform rectangle panel that can be stuck on
any van and easily replaced if there's an accident, and that makes production easier and
repairs easier in case of damage. Interesting. And by the way, speaking of aerodynamics and
range, worth pointing out that this van can travel about 150 miles on pure electric range.
Now, I asked the people at Rivian, hey, that seems kind of low, and they told me it's all
Amazon needs. In fact, Amazon doesn't even need anywhere near that much. If you think about what
a typical delivery driver is doing in a typical day, they don't go even close to 150 miles.
They're just stopping all the time in neighborhoods, and so that's all the range
they had to have for these vans. And as for delivery of the delivery van, like I said,
Amazon is the only customer, and the Rivian people assure me there are no plans to get these vans in
the hands of anybody else. But Amazon is starting to roll them out. Apparently, Rivian just delivered
its 1,000th van to Amazon, and they're starting to get around. I've seen a few of them on the road
in San Diego, where I live. These electric vans are starting to make their way around.
This is the future of Amazon package delivery.
And so, that's the electric Rivian Amazon delivery van. This is tremendously interesting
and tremendously quirky, and I'm thrilled that I had the chance to check it out and show you
all the quirks and features. I'm sorry I couldn't get behind the wheel, but the driving experience
is the least interesting part. It is so quirky, and it was great to see it all. And now you know
the future of how Amazon will deliver packages by van.
