There aren't many configurations that you can choose from. Rivian notified reservation holders that it's holding an "R1T same-day sales event" on June 17 at its Service Center in Normal, Illinois.

The same-day delivery event timings are between 10 am to 6 pm at the following address: 100 Rivian Motorway Normal, IL, 61761. Rivian said the test drives are available only on local roads, and ...

Rivian's R1T – and its R1S three-row SUV sibling – were announced in late 2018, and the automaker wasted no time in promising an aggressive roadmap for deliveries.

Rivian is saying it hears its customers loud and clear, and if they want to get themselves into a shiny new R1T, they’ll have the opportunity to drive off in one next weekend in Normal, Illinois.

The Rivian forums lit up with activity Tuesday evening as the company began emailing reservation holders with delivery dates for their R1T electric pickups and R1S electric SUVs.

Rivian is allowing people to change their orders if they want to get their R1T earlier. It also promised to share more information on delivery timings in early 2022.

These estimates include the R1T electric truck, the R1S SUV, and its electric delivery van. In the first quarter, Rivian was able to produce 9,395 and deliver 7,946 units of the three models combined.

If all of the Rivian delivery specialists are as well prepared and as pleasant as Shade was, I believe there will be a lot of satisfied R1T and R1S customers, well, as far as their delivery goes.

In May, I received a call from a different, equally friendly Rivian employee at the company’s delivery center in El Segundo, California, just 0.5 mile from MotorTrend HQ. “Your truck’s here.

Within about a day of driving the Rivian R1T —even in unfinished pre-production form, as was the case on our cross-country, Trans-America Trail journey —I knew I simply had to have one.