Rivian, an American electric car startup, announced that a new round of US$2.5 billion financing project has ended. Investors include Amazon and Ford .
So far, Rivian has raised approximately US$10.5 billion in financing. It raised 2.65 billion US dollars in January this year, 2.5 billion US dollars in July last year, 1.3 billion US dollars in December 2019, and at least 1.5 billion US dollars earlier.
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said in a statement: “We are very close to producing cars. It is very important to look forward. We have to move forward to the next stage of growth.”
Rivian is preparing to build a second factory in the United States . Last week, Rivian sent a notice to car buyers that the delivery of the R1T pickup truck was postponed to September and that the R1S SUV would have to wait until late autumn. Nevertheless, Rivian’s plan to provide Amazon with electric delivery trucks will not be affected.
In September 2019, Amazon purchased 100,000 electric vehicles from Rivian. It hopes to test electric delivery vehicles in 16 cities in the United States by the end of 2021.
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