Rivian delivered 12,194 vehicles in Q2, a 14.4% year-over-year gain despite the disappearance of the federal tax credit.
The company beat its own expectations for sales, fueled by R1 and EDV sales growth and the arrival of the R2.
It still has a long way to go to become a high-volume automaker, but it's off to a good start.
Rivian deliveries rose 14.4% year-over-year last quarter, the company announced Thursday. The positive news comes right after the launch of the R2, which arrived to rave reviews from most critics, myself included. All of that good news caused Rivian to raise its sales forecast for the year overall, too, suggesting the best is yet to come.
The company delivered 12,194 vehicles in Q2, up from 10,661 cars the year prior. The company had only expected to deliver between 9,000 and 11,000 cars last quarter. Initial deliveries of the R2 surely helped, but the company says it saw quarter-over-quarter increases for the EDV and R1 too.
