Rivian has began to run a pilot manufacturing line at its manufacturing unit in Regular, Illinois, because the electric automobile startup prepares to deliver its pickup truck and SUV to market in summer season 2021.

In an e mail despatched to potential prospects, Rivian mentioned deliveries of its R1T electric pickup truck will begin in June 2021. Deliveries of the R1S electric SUV will begin in August 2021.

Rivian mentioned in Could that deliveries of the R1T and R1S can be pushed to 2021. It wasn’t clear — till right now’s e mail — precisely when deliveries would begin.

Operating a pilot manufacturing line is a important step obligatory to root out potential issues forward of a full manufacturing launch. The 2 automobiles had been supposed to come to market on the finish of 2020. That timeline was prolonged to 2021 after the COVID-19 pandemic prompted Rivian to droop development work on the manufacturing unit, a former Mitsubishi plant that the corporate acquired in 2017. The manufacturing unit was the place Mitsubishi in a three way partnership with Chrysler Company known as Diamond-Star Motors produced the Mitsubishi Eclipse, Plymouth Laser and Dodge Avenger, amongst others.

The manufacturing unit will produce its R1T and R1S electric automobiles for customers in addition to 100,000 supply vans for Amazon. Rivian has mentioned it’s nonetheless on observe to begin deliveries of electric vans constructed for Amazon in early 2021. About 10,000 of these electric vans will likely be on the street as early as 2022 and all 100,000 automobiles will likely be on the street by 2030, Amazon beforehand mentioned.