 okay we got three pickup trucks in the race to win the EV first EV pickup we got the Cybertruck we got the Rivian we got the Endurance who's gonna win who's gonna be the first EV okay Tesla just surrendered the lead some more definitive news came out on this today they're sending out emails telling people hey you know it's gonna be a while till you get your Cybertruck why don't you lease a Model 3 in the meantime they're saying but different people are getting different emails that were or not getting emails and getting emails I don't know I don't have one on order but now they're saying the release of the Cybertruck is going to be 2022 not 2021 in the beginning you know I thought the Austin factory for Tesla it was going to be for the Cybertruck only but now Model Y actually I think they're giving Model Y a priority and somebody that there's a thing on the internet you can find it they got the status of the different plants and they say what they're gonna build for Austin they have the Cybertruck listed as in development okay so the cyber the giga factory is set to open on May 2021 but they say open I don't know if that means operational spitting out cars or what of course they do know what they're doing they have set up a few of these factories and if they're going with the why they know how to do that already you know they're going to for the redesign on the Cybertruck here's the thing I saw a thing the other day you can get an app that gives you the virtual size of the Cybertruck and you can see if it fits in your garage the Cybertruck is 9 over 19 feet long and most normal garages are 20 by 20 so I mean it's real close the other thing is everything's load bearing on the on the Cybertruck you know the front hood the all the structures and everything it's built like a bridge you know that's the arch of a bridge so there's no crumple zones or I guess they're good engineers I'm sure they can figure out how to do that but I think they might be going for it if you if you make a vehicle big enough then you get a commercial or a farm I don't know what it is you got to look this up but it's like a commercial rating or a farm rating and they put this in the loophole in for the farmers a long time ago so they didn't have to get special stuff for their farm equipment and their farm trucks and so forth but if you get a big enough one it waves like the mileage requirements the sizes the crumple zones a lot of stuff I think that might be what Tesla is going for I don't know anyway they got no they got no rearview mirrors and you know I'll tell you let's thinking about it the the pillars the roof pillars are very structured structural in that truck they're load bearing so they ain't gonna mount the mirrors there they're gonna have to mount them on the doors but see every time they put a hole in that body it weakens it again because it's like a bridge anyway there you go I think Tesla I think they basically gave up the ghost I mean they ain't coming out and saying it but read between the lines so here's a picture of the Gigafactory this is like yesterday in Austin and I don't know it looks like a big parking lot to me but anyway they build them really fast they know what they're doing they build a lot of them I'm just saying anyway I think we got a little clip of Elon talking about the SpaceX program coming up next Elon Musk is working on SpaceX this is his quote animals could be brave and slaughtered now let's get the Rivian you know Rivian's a private company the ST-1 they said was going to be the first pickup truck they are really guarded you can't get in information but it's hard to get information about it's not impossible they're a private company they don't have to do anything about it about reporting so they've said now that the 60k the cheaper model is going to be out in 2021 and I don't know before these dates are questionable anyway there's a video out with the new CEO but not the new CEO the original CEO the CEO the guy from MIT he's talking about some supply constraints until 2023 on production and he mentions having to build the Amazon Vian and a bunch of other things I'm going to include a clip following a clip here of this interview and you can listen to this for yourself and check out the images stealth mode and since that time you've made a lot of headlines bring us up to speed on where Rivian's at in terms of production and when we might see the R1T pickup delivered to customers and the R1S SUV listen to this you said we've made a lot of progress in the last couple of years we're approaching our launch date so we launched and start delivery of our R1T the truck in June of this coming year in 2021 and then the SUV shortly thereafter in August 2021 and I'm actually sitting at the plant right now and you can see vehicles on the line these guys are building the cars by hand coming down so we've got a white one snow robots coming down as his feet but we're in midst of really bringing the plant up and getting everything set in terms of quality systems production systems and it's not a small task because in parallel of the launching the truck in the speed we're also building a vehicle for logistics for Amazon and that's also going to go to a bit further back in the facility but nonetheless that's launching in 2021 as well on the consumer cars talks to me about the kind of pre-orders level of pre-orders you've had and what you're targeting in terms of production volume initially in 2021 and then from that point onwards yeah the reaction of the product and it's been great you and I met right so he's not saying what it is and started to show the product we've still tried to be relatively quiet in terms of how we communicate and talk about what we're doing just in general we like to let the product and interaction speak a lot of words so with that what we've seen is just a great sort of level of interest the ground swallow of support what we're doing and you know the configurator launching this week this past week for pre-order customers okay was really fun it doesn't give any number okay in this last section I have some video from Lordstown Motors they did a press junk at a zoom thing for a German trade show and anyway it was pretty interesting I hadn't heard a lot of this information anyway I'm gonna play some clips from that and then but first there's a clip of this some guy I don't know I'm gonna put a link in the description got this video of the interior of the endurance it's the best video I've seen I really like the interior it reminds me of an old 62 Buick I used to have nice this guy here has the best this is some of the best interior now this is not a word this is just a display model it's not it's not running but it's to show this is the interior that's gonna be on the truck which I like I think it's great there's the dash and see how clean it is I think it's just great what a grad it's a great simple refreshingly different design there's your three in the back two in the front there's a wheel hub motor charging port of course there's a frunk in this car here's a good shot of the interior coming in and I don't want to get flagged for this so I'll just there's your interior is going to be the same see but this is this is a mock-up but anyway this is the best video I've seen of the interior just to give you an idea what the truck looks like there it is again alright this is a presentation they did for a German press junket for the and this is Lord's Town's guide Steve Burns this guy call them flannery anyway just to let I just wanted to point out a couple interesting things here 250 mile range blah blah blah blah blah blah it's got a five star crash rating okay we don't know about that we don't know about the cyber truck it's got the four-wheel motors traction control blah blah blah I think this is might be what Rivians have in trouble with because theirs is extremely complicated this is extremely simple now this is interesting 4,000 pound curbway the lightest full-size pickup a fleet pickup on the market that's that's like and now this is the fleet model has a 5.5 second zero to 60 and this is with it detuned as I said in another video I think it can do 3.5 with if it was running at full capacity this is just a chart showing the five-year this is for fleets but you can see that the endurance five-year 16,000 miles the cost to operate it for five years is 34k versus the Ford F-150 probably the most popular fleet truck is 51 grand so what is that 16 grand more so it just gives you an idea you can see these again this is for 16 this is total cost of ownership for these different brands and the Rams high they're all higher than the endurance I thought this was a very interesting this is a better look at the plant you can see how big it is it's a 6.2 million feet I think they've got 10 million feet of possible usable space there the annual vehicle capacity here is 420 under the EVs they can do 600,000 which is the first year order for the Cybertruck that's the amount by the way the replacement value of this plant is three billion dollars okay and interestingly enough they have a solar array which is right here 2.2 megawatts I'm gonna play this with the sound off this is I think this is a pretty good video showing giving you an idea of it's a flyover by a drone of the plant and so forth and it's I haven't seen it before but it gives you an idea of how big it is I mean you know these are just different angles I don't even think they can get the whole thing on one angle there's the solar array that's in front of the place and there's everybody seeing that that's the and then this is look at look at this plant compared to the Rivian clip of the Rivian video look at this there's Steve Burns but and these are just little snippets again the size of this plant I forget how many robots they said were in it and this is all a bit dusty but this was an operating plant just you know less than a year ago so you know they ain't running around with feather dusters when they're building cars yeah anyway just give you an idea of the immensity of this of this plant and oh call them over there said you need a scooter or a golf cart to get around the plant because that's how big the plant is this is a the some of the management team there's more people involved and there's there's people from VW and Toyota and all kind of stuff I just wanted to point out this guy right here is a rich Schmidt leaving force beside behind the design conversion and improvement of 12 automotive plants including Tesla's plant in Fremont California and you can see this is he's one of the OG's from Fremont and Tesla Toyota Nissan Hyundai and Volkswagen these work for them all a couple of interesting things column mentioned one was that they're planning to ship vehicles to Europe at the end of next year or the beginning of 2022 so that's in their plans and did mention that they're selling the fleets but they're also selling the individuals and a very interesting thing he said he kind of let the cat out of the bag a little bit here but that this line is capable and it's basically all set up and they're going to be running and I mentioned this in another video the next product is going to be an SUV and then a van