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Rivian customers who have ordered the R1T pickup truck with extended range battery pack will have to wait until 2023. The company had estimated it would begin deliveries in early 2022. Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said in an email to customers the company is trying to chart the best course to ramp up production as quickly as possible.

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has settled a labor dispute with three companies doing work at the Rivian plant in Normal for $390,000 in back wages and penalties.

Rivian on Thursday confirmed plans to build a $5 billion manufacturing plant in the state of Georgia that will have more employees and capacity than its first facility in Normal.

The electric automaker announced its first quarterly results on Thursday. Included was news that Rivian has produced 652 R1 vehicles (mostly trucks) since production began in September. That means Rivian will be “a few hundred vehicles short” of its target of 1,200 by the end of 2021.

The electric automaker started the week by earning MotorTrend’s Truck of the Year honors. It might end the week with a major announcement about its second manufacturing plant.

It's been five years -- almost to the day -- since the word "Rivian" was first uttered publicly in Bloomington-Normal. WGLT's Sound Ideas has this look back at the last five years, from small meetings with taxing bodies ... to stealth mode ... to the Nasdaq.

With a pair of major policy victories in hand, Gov. JB Pritzker traveled to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, at the beginning of the month and shared a vision for his home state: “Illinois intends to become the best place in North America to drive and manufacture an electric vehicle.”

Despite President Biden’s ride in an electric Hummer and Rivian’s massive stock market debut, a longtime industry watcher says the U.S. may not be ready for the electric vehicle revolution.

Five years after first appearing in Normal as a mysterious startup, the electric automaker Rivian on Wednesday started a new chapter as a publicly traded company.

A senior policy manager for a nonprofit aimed at promoting electric vehicle usage says the industry needs incentives included in the federal Build Back Better plan to get a boost nationwide.