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Re:Rivian valued at over $100B after biggest IPO of 2021 by mcot2 on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @06:23PM (#29182343)
This comment is not supported by the facts. Tesla has more orders for Cybertruck than Rivian has for their truck or Ford has for their truck. Regardless, none of these companies will be able to build enough for several years to come, maybe even a decade. Each year there are millions of trucks sold just in the United States. Initial volumes for these EV trucks are only projected to be ~50,000/yr.

So your comment is actually moot since all EV truck companies will sell as many as they can produce, the styling does not matter at all.

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Re:Rivian valued at over $100B after biggest IPO of 2021 by mey on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @06:29PM (#29182399)
> the styling does not matter at all.

Supply may be fully consumed, but demand may not be equal, allowing for one company to demand a higher premium on their product over another. Fantastic example of this is AMD slashing the price of the 5800x in response to Intel 12th gen. It's not like there isn't a chip shortage and supply isn't fully saturated.

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