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A comment on Ford to put $500M into electric vehicle startup Rivian.

Re:Ford to put $500M into electric vehicle startup Rivian by larrywright on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @10:45AM (#19738832)
Rivian is manufacturing in my home town, so this is great news.
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Re:Ford to put $500M into electric vehicle startup Rivian by durge on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @11:33AM (#19739416)
representing Peoria here - this is great news for that part of the country!
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Re:Ford to put $500M into electric vehicle startup Rivian by larrywright on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @11:42AM (#19739515)
It really is - especially having an idle auto manufacturing plant here. There’s not much else you can do with those, so seeing it put to use is great, rather than just collecting dust.
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Re:Ford to put $500M into electric vehicle startup Rivian by JBReefer on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @11:57AM (#19739704)
Isn’t Peoria today more or less a Caterpillar company town? Seems like Rivian getting big would be amazing for the city
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Re:Ford to put $500M into electric vehicle startup Rivian by larrywright on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @12:03PM (#19739771)
It was. except the new CEO of Cat moved the headquarters to Chicago.

But to be clear, this is about 40 minutes east of Peoria.

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