Los Angeles 2018: The All-Electric Rivian R1T Revealed

Electric vehicles will be multiplying like rabbits on the next few years: it’s a prediction that’s almost getting stale so often is it repeated. Be that as it may, various announcements by manufacturers big and small are coming fast and furious; dozens of electrified models are confirmed, and that will soon swell into the hundreds.

This trend has made itself felt in every segment of the industry. Well, almost every sgement. We have yet to see a fully electric muscle car, for example. Nor, unfortunately, a pickup.

That looks to change in the near-future. The first move in that direction comes not from a major manufacturer from a small American firm based in Plymouth, Michigan (how aptly named a location is that…). The company is Rivian, and it has just lifted the veil on an electric pickup that it comes to bring to market in the “near-future”.

The vehicle will actually be on display in the flesh at the Los Angeles Auto Show this week, so we’ll have the chance to check it out up close.

Meantime, today’s announcement reveals the following:

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