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In addition to my Air Grand Touring reservation, I have an early reservation for a Launch Edition Rivian R1S (the SUV). I thought some of you might find it interesting to see the difference between Lucid and Rivian in terms of reservation experience and communication.
I'm replacing my Taycan with the Lucid Air GT, and our Audi E-tron with the Rivian. At least that's the plan. I placed reservations for both the Lucid and the Rivian last September.
We were contacted by our Lucid sales associate back in September to answer any early questions we might have. Then last week I was contacted by our delivery advisor. I've locked our build, discussed payment, delivery, and have submitted some of the initial paperwork. I've been told 2-4 months for delivery. WIth numerous Dream Editions being delivered every week, this seems very likely. It's been great to see several forum members take delivery and provide early feedback. Lucid seems to be doing a nice job so far and I liked the delivery kick off for the first Dream deliveries. It seemed like a really nice event.
With Rivian, other than a few standard emails, we've had no directly contact from the company. They originally said Launch Edition reservation holders would be contacted during the summer, and then changed that to November. The truck (R1T) is launching first, but Rivian had said all Launch Edition vehicles, both the truck and SUV, would be delivered late 2021 or early 2022. Today we received another update with a new delivery window. Our new window is July-Sept 2022. That essentially is pushing out the delivery another 6 months. I'm not really angry as we don't need the vehicle, but a bit disappointed to say the least. However, it seems the truck reservation holders who were really expecting delivery this year are now being told March at the earliest. Rivian put on quite the show claiming to start deliveries, but so far all of the deliveries have gone to employees or Rivian investors. There is even an individual who is driving his R1T Truck from LA to Michigan towing a car hauler, but he's unable to comment on his mileage and charging speeds, due to an NDA with Rivian. No one on the Rivian forum has taken delivery which is very surprising.
I'm replacing my Taycan with the Lucid Air GT, and our Audi E-tron with the Rivian. At least that's the plan. I placed reservations for both the Lucid and the Rivian last September.
We were contacted by our Lucid sales associate back in September to answer any early questions we might have. Then last week I was contacted by our delivery advisor. I've locked our build, discussed payment, delivery, and have submitted some of the initial paperwork. I've been told 2-4 months for delivery. WIth numerous Dream Editions being delivered every week, this seems very likely. It's been great to see several forum members take delivery and provide early feedback. Lucid seems to be doing a nice job so far and I liked the delivery kick off for the first Dream deliveries. It seemed like a really nice event.
With Rivian, other than a few standard emails, we've had no directly contact from the company. They originally said Launch Edition reservation holders would be contacted during the summer, and then changed that to November. The truck (R1T) is launching first, but Rivian had said all Launch Edition vehicles, both the truck and SUV, would be delivered late 2021 or early 2022. Today we received another update with a new delivery window. Our new window is July-Sept 2022. That essentially is pushing out the delivery another 6 months. I'm not really angry as we don't need the vehicle, but a bit disappointed to say the least. However, it seems the truck reservation holders who were really expecting delivery this year are now being told March at the earliest. Rivian put on quite the show claiming to start deliveries, but so far all of the deliveries have gone to employees or Rivian investors. There is even an individual who is driving his R1T Truck from LA to Michigan towing a car hauler, but he's unable to comment on his mileage and charging speeds, due to an NDA with Rivian. No one on the Rivian forum has taken delivery which is very surprising.