The breakdown in pre-delivery inspection quality now surfacing on Rivian‘s R2 is a direct result of the restructuring that dismantled the teams built to catch those faults, a person familiar with the matter told EV on Tuesday. The October 2025 layoffs and the reorganisation accompanying them removed the operational safeguard that existed to stop defective vehicles reaching customers, the person said. The entire vehicle operations organisation wa…
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