Rivian CEO R.J. Scaringe teases the coming R2 model due in 2026 during an Instagram Q&A, and says the 'tank turn' is dead.
It's not much to go on, but we've had our first taste of what theR2S will look like. Rivian CEO R.J. Scaringe hosted an Instagram Q&A, and thankfully, the company uploaded the entire showcase to YouTube with chapter titles. The second segment of the 33:14 vid contains ten seconds of Scaringe and Rivian lead designer Jeff Hammoud standing in front of the model they call the R2; we called it R2S because of its SUV shape and the company's nomenclature established with the R1.
The narrow-seeming cabin sounds like a result of the R2 and R3"[moving] in different form factors and obviously different sizes," according to Scaringe.. That clay model doesn't look GC-sized, although who knows if it's to scale. There's also a long way to go until we get a production-ready debut, we believe. Scaringe talks about the production ramp-up in the video not long after the R2 segment, growing pains having pushed the R2's arrival from 2025 to 2026.
We're told Rivian's throwing a lot of brainpower at it. Scaringe spoke in April about the effort across the development teams to maintain Rivian DNA in the first vehicle the company's building to a strict price point lower than that of the R1.
What we know won't be coming for the R2 are quad-motor powertrains and a feature list as long as that for the R1. And Scaringe said the Tank Turn that caused a big stir a few years ago isn't coming for any Rivian. The vid's got a chapter devoted to the turn-in-place feature, Scaringe saying," Over the last year and a half we've arrived at the view that it's a feature that, while we can do it, it's so easily abused and so hard to make sure we don't tear up trails and really do things that are in contrast to what we stand for as a company," so it's been sent to the graveyard. Some have inferred this is Rivian saying it doesn't exactly trust its customers without saying it doesn't trust its customers. That might be true.
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