Rivian Livestream: Adventurous forever with RJ Scaringe and Alex Honnold

Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe sits down with our favorite climber, Alex Honnold, to talk purpose and sustainability, and announce details of a special partnership with the Honnold Foundation. The conversation will be moderated by endurance athlete and renowned podcast host Rich Roll.

Fast forward to the 34:07-mark to watch.

 

So, to be honest, I'm not super certain about what to expect from this presentation. I assume it's basically about a partnership with Rivian and the Honnold Foundation that will see batteries from development, and hopefully consumer vehicles, find their way into renewable energy microgrids in remote and under-resourced communities around the world.
I know we all just want to see vehicles rolling out of the factory and orders being filled, but foundational sustainability programs like this are important too.

 

Several hundred vehicles over the next year or so that can't, of course, be sold.

 

Packs are designed to be used for stationary storage, both as entire packs, and with modules.

 

Loving this conversation, but I keep getting distracted by Alex's shirt.

Is that a small Rivian truck pinned to his shirt?

 

Rivian factory sits on over 500 acres that's mostly grass, will grow food on site to serve at plant. Nice!

 

Only eight packs in this project. Really underlines how many future projects could be created.

 

Earlier, I thought they said there were 800 order holders there.

 

Here's the video that they showed during the presentation of the work in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico.

 

I didn't see those. You have a pic?

 

Oh, nice! Thanks.

 

Posting a reoriented version for people with sore necks.

 

Eight vehicle battery packs. Those would be either 105 kWh, 135 kWh, or 180 kWh. They didn't specify, so it could even be a mix of these.

 

I think they meant packs. I think 8 modules would be too small. I was imagining something on the order of 1,000 kWh.