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Hold on let me put my gloves on.
This one?
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I grew up on a farm.
- No.
Yes, I did.
My parents were farmers,
and my father worked like the day and the night shift in the factory.
And then, the remaining 8 hours he worked on the farm.
I've spent the first 18 years working on the farm,
driving tractor, picking fruits, wine.
We made our own wine.
So actually, I do miss this.
That's something that - at least part time - I will do when I retire.
Smile.
So you got to tape her too
You tape me, tape her.
These are, see
See, I'm not the one making this happen.
They're making this happen.
Welcome from our new Enduro production facility
we’re here at the south end of the Normal production site.
This is actually our newest building we have
less than two years ago,
this was actually a parking lot.
And what we did within the last two years is actually very amazing.
We’ve built up this complete new construction
and we’ve set up four different lines
that are required to build our brand new Enduro motor.
So, the Enduro motor is the motor that is solely developed
by our engineering team in-house within our Rivian family.
And the Enduro motor will be offered not only in our EDV - where we are
currently already installing the Enduro motor.
It will also be available for our customers in the R1T
and in the R1S.
So, start of production of our new Enduro motor
was at the beginning of February actually.
I remember exactly.
It was February 3rd, because I had a chance to be out here with the team
to celebrate the production of our first customer motor.
So since SOP - Start of Production - of our first Enduro motor,
we have already built more than 600 of these beautiful Enduro motors
here with the team, but we're still at the beginning of the ramp up.
So all together we plan on building
44 units per hour.
So if you do the math, we will run two shifts here,
So we will be capable of producing
832 Enduro motors every single day.
Now, you might wonder why that's a lot of motors
that we can put every single day into our products.
But you got to see we put one Enduro motor in every single EDV
we're producing, in combination with a new LFP battery pack.
And then, as I mentioned, we will also offer the Enduro motor
in our R1T and R1S products.
So the customer will be able to select our very famous quad motor.
But additional to that, the customer will also be able
to select an Enduro motor, so the customer will have a choice.
The good thing about the Enduro motor, it's actually a more efficient motor.
So the customer will actually get a longer range, a little bit less horsepower,
but an absolutely fascinating product.
The good thing also for Rivian, as you all know, we need to drive down cost.
Also, on the bill of material and the Enduro motor helps us
because the Enduro motor as an in-house engineered and in-house produced motor
is actually less expensive than our quad motor.
So it's actually something which is reducing our costs
and we're actually able to offer an incredible product to our customers.
So what I want to really say is that I'm so proud of this team here
because working together with the design engineers, manufacturing engineers,
manufacturing team, supply chain, logistics
and all the different functions that actually made it happen that we are
able to set up such an incredible facility in such a short time,
ramping up an incredible product with a fantastic quality.
We're at the beginning of the ramp up, but seeing what
the team has accomplished so far, I'm absolutely confident
that we will not only achieve our goals, we will exceed our goals.
So thank you very much.
Looking forward to seeing you soon.
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You made them?
- Yeah.
Nice.