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Jeff Bezos and Amazon Buy 100000 Rivian EVs · Elon Musk Podcast

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  Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the musk news pod.
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  My name is Walden. I'm your host.
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  This is the podcast about everything.
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  Elon Musk related whether it's V's space, boring power, Etc.
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  Everything Elon Musk has in this podcast, okay?
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  So this podcast is a little bit different today.
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  It's not about Elon Musk in particular.
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  This email that I got was about Amazon, okay?
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  I got tipped off to an Amazon announcement that was coming up.
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  100,000 electronic Vehicles, will be delivered to Amazon by
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  Rivia who is Tesla's. EV startup rival, 100,000
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  Vehicles so Jeff Bezos there was an announcement recently Said
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  that the company had placed an order for 100 thousand TVs from
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  michigan-based, Vivian. And the announcement came during
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  an event Thursday in Washington DC and they want to get these on
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  the road by 2024 like the whole Fleet of 100,000 Vehicles by
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  2024. But the first ones will hit the
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  roads in 2021 with prototypes possibly arriving as soon as
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  2020. So this is a huge, huge deal for
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  Tesla. Tesla makes the best Evie's on
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  the market. Period hands down.
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  No arguments ever about that. They make the best V's revision.
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  Just got a huge huge influx of orders 100,000 TVs.
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  Can they make this many vehicles by 2024?
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  The answer is probably okay. So they're they're ramping up
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  operations. They're making sure they have
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  everything in line in order to meet their deadlines because
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  Amazon is the hugest company. And with this huge company comes
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  a lot of opportunity, not only for these hundred thousand
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  vehicles, but for millions of vehicles in the future, and this
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  has just put Vivian on the map. Nobody really knew about them.
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  Us EV enthusiasts, we definitely knew about them, but the regular
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  mainstream media doesn't really care that much about Vivian.
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  And it's kind of a new name. Anyway.
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  I mean, they kind of run under the radar.
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  They were kind of founded to fight against Tesla.
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  They were going to compete against the Roadster, but then
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  they move they shift operations to kind of like a like a
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  sports-based action-based vehicle instead.
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  All right, I'm going to take a quick pause for the cause of a
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  quick break. And when I get back, we'll have
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  more on Vivian against Tesla. So He's owes led a 700 million
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  dollar funding round last February this company and it
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  didn't disclose the exact amount it was contributing. for this
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  next investment in Rivia, Ford announced a 500 million dollar
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  investment in Riven that the companies said would result in
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  new electronic vehicle to be sold by Ford most recently
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  review and landed a 350 million dollar investment from Cox
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  Automotive, who is a huge company in retail and Logistics.
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  I used to work for Cox, I used to work for dealer.com
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  disclosure, it's pretty cool company.
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  Really great people work there. I worked in the engineering
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  department. Aunt.
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  I was a web developer at that company really great people.
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  Really get great stuff Co x.com if you want to check them out.
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  Now Rivia. 100,000 Vehicles. Let's get back to that for a
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  second. So how many vehicles does Tesla
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  make every year? That's about 500,000 cars for
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  Tesla every year? That's about 10,000 vehicles per
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  week. And so Riven is going to be a
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  fifth of what Tesla's going to be producing for Amazon when
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  they produce all of these and they'll be producing them with
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  over the next five years. So they're not really ramping up
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  to the speed. The Tesla already has but this
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  is a huge influx of money for Ravine, and a huge shot in the
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  arm, for the EV industry as a whole because not only is Tesla
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  going to be a front-runner. But they're gonna have some
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  competition. Now, some real actual
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  competition, they're not going to be chased after by the big
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  names anymore. This is a startup, this is a
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  brand new company that's kind of nipping at their heels now.
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  And with this initial investment from Amazon, this huge amount of
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  money coming in Arabian, Tesla's got to watch their back because
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  if Amazon's Jeff Bezos keeps throwing money iridium.
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  Well, there's going to be a front-runner in the SUV.
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  Kind of space for four v's in the future.
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  So all of you must fans out there.
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  Watch out for this company. Are I viiiain?
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  The really really great and they have some really cool cars.
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  They have some really cool vehicles.
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  So I'm not just a Tesla guy, I'm going to EV guy and I think this
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  is the wave of the future. So check this out.
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  Check those guys out and yeah, watch out for more about that
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  in. The future.
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  And when I get some more information about it, I'll let
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  you guys know. This is kind of a brief synopsis
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  of what happened, but there's a lot more in store in the future
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  for this company. So my friends, thank you so much
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  for listening to the show. I appreciate it.
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  And Thanks for taking the time out of your day to spend it here
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