An Amazon spokesperson says the claim is false. The company says it ordered 100,000 electric vans in 2019 and has 10,000 of them in service now.

Rivian’s electric van is now available to be purchased by anyone with a commercial fleet, the automaker said today. For several years, Rivian’s van was exclusive to Amazon.

The Irvine, California-based, company founded and led by CEO R.J. Scargine, will fulfill a plan to deliver 100,000 Rivian Commercial Vans to Amazon by 2030 but wants to drum up additional sales.

Amazon helped Rivian get off the ground with its exciting R1T electric truck, the R1S, along with the delivery van.However, Amazon had exclusive rights to all 100,000 manufactured vans, which is ...

The electric van was developed with help from Amazon, which was previously the vehicle’s sole customer, with an order of 100,000 units that are poised to be delivered by 2030. Four years after ...

Rivian reported $742 million worth of sales to Amazon – primarily related to the delivery van — in the first nine months of last year, nearly a quarter of its $3.2 billion in total revenue ...

The van is on display and Rivian’s luxury electric R1T midsize pickup and R1S SUV are available for demo rides until the show closes Jan. 20. Prices start at $83,000.

According to its data, sales of Ford's E-Transit, the electric version of the Transit van, accounted for 12,610 units out of the roughly 150,000 commercial vans it sold in the United States in 2024.

Meal-kit company HelloFresh has added 70 all-electric Rivian vans to its fleet, the first major customer to buy the commercial EVs since the automaker ended its exclusive deal with Amazon.

Irvine, Calif.-based Rivian currently makes battery-electric SUVs and pickups at its Illinois factory, along with the delivery van that it supplies primarily to Amazon, its biggest shareholder.

The van is on display and Rivian’s luxury electric R1T midsize pickup and R1S SUV are available for demo rides until the show closes Jan. 20. Prices start at $83,000.