welcome to eNUMBER_TOKEN electric don't forget to click on that subscribe button and the bell notification icon so you don't miss anything moving forward let's talk about reviewing and there is trouble in paradise everyone has fallen in love with raven since its unveiling three years ago and with the clark kent of automotive executives ribbian's ceo r.j scarringe ever since arivian has been a huge eva success story but now that riven has started actually making the vehicles things are looking a bit troublesome to say the least in a few categories earlier this month arrivian has started the deliveries of their rNUMBER_TOKENt truck and everyone got very excited since this is the very first electric truck that hit the us or european markets but one thing that most people didn't realize was that the deliveries were limited only to arabian employees just like how tesla did it with the model NUMBER_TOKEN launch back in NUMBER_TOKEN but those are not real world customers those are essentially fancy quality assurance engineers who are giving a lot of their salaries back to their employer in a form of car payments my impression was that the real deliveries were starting very shortly after that but now it looks like rivien is not going to deliver their first trucks to the real world customers until march of next year based on the recent poll done by the reservation holders sharing their official delivery dates with the community and that's not the only bad news that came out of arabian in the last few weeks it looks like one of their biggest investors with a stake of around NUMBER_TOKEN percent and rivien's strategic partner ford has decided to abandon its plans on using rivien's technology in any of ford's future vehicles which was the original plan here's what rj skyringe the ceo of ravion told me last time i spoke to him in san francisco california the ford relationship is really strong and um you know we're excited to have them as a partner and them coming in part of it of course was an investment but but more importantly was the ability to collaborate and what we're collaborating on is culminates in a vehicle that we're doing together where we provide the platform the skateboard so drive train you know network architecture electrical system you know battery system and then they put a top hat that's of their own design on looks like ravion was going to do all of the hard work and ford was just going to come in and put a pretty shell on top of that and slap their logo on top kind of like when your mom worked very hard all evening long making cookies for your high school potluck and all you had to do was put them on a plate and bring them to school yet ford has decided to walk away on top of that a couple of months ago ford gave up its position on ravion's board as well ford of course has its own electric pickup truck the f-NUMBER_TOKEN lightning that goes on sale in the next half a year ford is so proud of it they brought it all the way up to tesla's headquarters in california while it's still there to troll tesla on twitter with this picture now i'm not gonna lie i have also brought my new girlfriend to a party once where my ex-girlfriend was in a pretty red dress so i get it for the butt you know you're only going to
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