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 end up meeting your ex's new taller and younger boyfriend with a better job it was also reported that rivian has recently had a fire break out at one of their factory production lines and it seems that it could have been a battery pack that caught on fire plus arrivian has announced that for now they were not able to make the most exciting feature the tank turn work on their vehicles and that now has been delayed indefinitely but if you ask me almost all of this fades in comparison with what i have witnessed firsthand a couple of weeks ago that i can only describe as media intimidation and manipulation but before i tell you that wonderful story a quick reminder that this video is brought to you by new charge you can now charge two cars at the same time without spending a ton of money on a rewiring your home by using the smart splitter from new charge get one today and use the discount code in the description of this video and by flow check out the flow home xNUMBER_TOKEN and give your garage some sex appeal with its elegant design sturdy NUMBER_TOKEN aluminum casing and plenty of cord length get yours using our exclusive NUMBER_TOKEN discount in the description of this video so honestly i cannot believe that this happened and it happened in front of my eyes and i did reach out to rivian because i want to make sure that you my audience get both sides of the story but unfortunately they refused to give me any comment on the situation which i guess is a comment on its own first as you probably know rivian did a first drive event for some members of the media but they have excluded some of the media that appeared to maybe be more critical in their reporting which is very similar to tesla's pr strategy when they
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