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Rivian Continues to Fall Apart – Darlinez News.

<p> &lbrack;ad&lowbar;1&rsqb;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"entry-content column content primary is-two-thirds">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"" style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon; 10px&semi;">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"">&NewLine;<p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"tag is-dark is-uppercase">Autos<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"byline-container">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"post-date is-italic has-text-grey is-size-7 has-text-weight-medium ">&NewLine;<p>January 4&comma; 2023 7&colon;30 am<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Last Updated&colon; January 4&comma; 2023 1&colon;21 pm<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;p><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;p><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;p><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;p><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;p><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Among the worst-performing companies in terms of share price in 2022 was electric vehicle &lpar;EV&rpar; maker Rivian Automotive Inc&period; &lpar;NASDAQ&colon; RIVN&rpar;&period; Its stock plunged by 80&percnt; and has fallen so far this year&period; The company failed to make an extremely modest delivery target for last year&comma; another sign Rivian will never be a competitor in the EV sector&period; That means it may be no competitor at all&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Rivian management said it would produce 25&comma;000 of its electric pickups last year&period; The final number was 24&comma;337&period; However&comma; it only delivered 20&comma;332&period; Rivian’s chief executive&comma; among the worst in the car industry&comma; said supply chain problems kept 700 from being completed&period; To make matters worse&comma; the company’s target for production was 50&comma;000 earlier in 2022&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When Rivian released its third-quarter numbers&comma; management said it had a preorder backlog of 114&comma;000 vehicles as of November 7&period; A preorder is meaningless&period; A customer can cancel it at any time&period; Frustrated customers may buy alternatives&comma; like the widely well-regarded Ford F-150 Lightning&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Those third-quarter figures proved Rivian was a trainwreck&period; It lost &dollar;1&period;7 billion on &dollar;536 million&period; Rivian has &dollar;13&period;8 billion in cash&period; While that is an impressive balance&comma; Rivian still has to make and deliver vehicles to make the sum matter over the long haul&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<section id&equals;"email-subscribe" class&equals;"section section-email-sub single-email-sub"><&excl;-- div&period;svg-icon --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"container">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"subscribe-message" style&equals;"line-height&colon; 1&period;3&semi;">&NewLine;<p>Get Our Free Investment Newsletter<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;p><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;p><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;section>&NewLine;<p>Rivian still has an absurd market capitalization of &dollar;15&period;3 billion&period; Ford’s market cap is &dollar;47 billion&comma; and it sold almost 4 million vehicles in 2021&period; That number almost certainly improved in 2022&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Rivian cannot win&period; Its sales are too small&comma; its backorder count is meaningless&comma; and the market has started to fill up with competition&period; That competition will increase further this year and become a torrent by 2024&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Rivian had its chance&comma; particularly a year ago&period; Management bungled that and cost Rivian its future&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&excl;-- &num;post-footer--><&sol;p><&sol;div>&NewLine;

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