Lordstown Motors’ Sales Were Dreadful. The Stock Is Rising Anyway.

Sales and earnings from electric vehicle start-up Lordstown Motors show just how hard it has been to launch a new electric truck. Results look rough, but the beaten-up stock is rising in early trading...

Several Top Rivian Executives Depart After Production Miss

Rivian Automotive the startup maker of electric trucks, has parted ways with several of its top executives after production targets were missed over the past year. Those who left include Randy Frank, ...

Rivian pauses plans to make electric vans in Europe with Mercedes-Benz

An Amazon Rivian electric delivery van at the company’s manufacturing facility in Normal, Illinois, US., on Monday, April 11, 2022. Jamie Kelter Davis | Bloomberg | Getty Images Rivian said Mond...

Rivian Scraps Plan to Make Electric Vans in Europe with Mercedes

(Bloomberg) — Rivian Automotive Inc. is shelving plans to jointly build electric vans in Europe with Mercedes-Benz AG, aborting a deal signed just three months ago to share costs and quickly sca...

Rivian Stock: Earnings On Tap As Key Client Amazon Rolls Out More Electric Delivery Vans Rivian Stock: Earnings On Tap As Key Client Amazon Rolls Out More Electric Delivery Vans

Electric-vehicle startup Rivian (RIVN) will report earnings late Wednesday, as key client Amazon (AMZN) rolls out more than 1,000 of its electric vans just in time for holiday deliveries. Rivian stock...

Buy Paccar Stock. The Truck Company Can Ride Out a Recession.

Before Steven Spielberg reached blockbuster success with Jaws, he made Duel, about a driver terrorized by a massive tanker truck. The story didn’t end well for the homicidal Peterbilt rig that the dir...

Nikola Tries to Ignite Market for Its Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Trucks

As Nikola founder stands trial on securities-fraud charges, a revamped management team is pushing to make the company the first to market hydrogen-powered commercial trucks in the U.S.—and to overcome...

Arrival Stock Soars. It’s Got Plans for Microfactories to Build EV Vans.

Shares in Arrival were rising in early trading after the company said it had produced a vehicle in one of its microfactories for the first time. The milestone is a welcome boost for the embattled elec...

Mercedes-Benz Vans and Rivian Team Up for Electric Van Production

With their focus set on reducing costs for both companies, Mercedes Benz and Rivian will pool their funds, supplies, technology, and skills together to achieve their aim. Top electric vehicle (EV) mak...

Amazon-Backed Rivian And Mercedes-Benz Are Partnering To Make Electric Vans

Rivian and Mercedes-Benz are planning a joint venture to produce electric vans, including a new production line at a Mercedes facility in Europe. Rivian Rivian, the electric vehicle startup backed by ...

Mercedes-Benz, Rivian partner on EV commercial vans in Europe

Production of electric Amazon delivery vans on April 11, 2022 at Rivian’s plant in Normal, Ill. Michael Wayland / CNBC Mercedes-Benz and Rivian said Thursday they are planning a joint venture to...

Action Sports Heavyweights Mongoose And Vans Release Throwback Collection With Our Legends

The new collaboration between Mongoose, Vans and Our Legends features throwback Mongoose designs and … [+] colorways on the classic Vans Authentic silhouette. Rick Rodney Since coming on the sce...

Rivian’s Losses Nearly Triple to $1.7 Billion

Rivian Automotive Inc. reported its net loss in the second quarter nearly tripled to $1.7 billion, further pressuring the electric-vehicle startup to conserve cash and move quickly to fill customer or...

Meet The Female Executives Who Bring Vans US Open Of Surfing, World’s Largest Action Sports Festival, To Life

The Vans US Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach, CA, is action sports’ largest event, including … [+] skateboarding and BMX competitions over a nine-day festival. And three female executiv...

Amazon is starting to deliver packages with Rivian electric vans

Amazon said Thursday it will begin to start using electric vans developed in partnership with Rivian to make deliveries. Amazon Amazon is beginning to roll out some of the electric delivery vans that ...

Vans Aircraft Takes the Back-Country Route With Its First High-Wing Kit Plane

Vans back-country RV-15 prototype is its first high-wing design. It’s seen here lifting off on an … [+] early test flight Bernardo Malfitano/Van’s Aircraft For nearly 50 years, Vans ...

California Truckers Struggle to Comply With New Employment Law

Trucking companies and truck owner-operators are scrambling to figure out how to operate under a new California law that toughens definitions of nonemployee drivers, upending decadeslong practices tha...

Canoo Walmart deal for 4,500 vans sends EV stock jumping

Walmart to Purchase 4,500 Canoo Electric Delivery Vehicles to be Used for Last Mile Deliveries in Support of Its Growing eCommerce Business Courtesy: Canoo | Walmart Electric vehicle startup Canoo sai...

Rivian’s Great EV Expectations Meet the Harsh Reality of Manufacturing

At Rivian Automotive Inc.’s factory in Normal, Ill., life is anything but. Car factories around the world routinely churn out models around the clock. About eight months after production on Rivian’s e...

‘Where My Vans Go’ Creator Drift on Next Moves, State of NFT Photography

In brief Prominent NFT photographer Isaac “Drift” Wright spoke with Decrypt. He discusses his next moves as well as his view of the expanding NFT photo space. Isaac “Drift” Wright’s photography evokes...

Rivian Drops on Word of Lawsuit With Key Seat Supplier for Vans

(Bloomberg) — Rivian Automotive Inc. fell almost 7% Monday on word the electric-vehicle startup is in a dispute with a key seat supplier that could jeopardize its delivery van contract with patr...

Ford Hurries Out F-150 Lightning to Grab Share of Electrics Market

The latest electric vehicles offer the power to charge household devices or other EVs using the energy stored in the car’s battery. WSJ’s George Downs explores how some companies are developing vehicl...

Rivian CEO on growth, Amazon vans, SPAC bubble and lower-priced EVs

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe on April 11, 2022 inside the company’s plant in Normal, Ill. Michael Wayland / CNBC NORMAL, Ill. – Rivian Automotive CEO Robert Scaringe hops out of one the automaker̵...

Oil is the hottest sector, and Wall Street analysts see upside of up to 48% for favored stocks

Energy is the best-performing stock-market sector this year. Given today’s strong economic growth and inflation, many believe oil prices could remain at current levels for years or maybe even move hig...

Ford to book $8.2 billion fourth-quarter profit on Rivian investment

Ford Motor Co. said late Tuesday it will post an $8.2 billion gain in the fourth quarter related to its investment in Rivian Automotive Inc. following the electric-vehicle maker’s November initial pub...

Walmart and FedEx sign deals for thousands of GM’s new electric vans

Walmart signed an agreement to reserve 5,000 of BrightDrop’s EV600 and smaller EV410 electric delivery vans to support the retail giant’s last mile delivery network and goal of operating a...

GM’s EV Push Yields Orders For Thousands Of Electric BrightDrop Vans From Walmart, FedEx

A BrightDrop EV600 all-electric light commercial vehicle. BrightDrop General Motors unveiled an array of new battery-powered models Wednesday at CES, including electric versions of the Silverado picku...