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The Rivian Electric Amazon Delivery Van Is Highly Innovative and Incredibly Cool

Doug DeMuro reviews the Rivian electric delivery van built for Amazon, walking through its quirks, features and design innovations. It is a long, detailed tour of the vehicle inside and out.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN points to it as the most thorough walkthrough of the Amazon Rivian van, useful for seeing its real size and delivery-specific design.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Doug DeMuro
Topic
electric delivery vans
Format
demo
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
4
Recommendation years in dataset
2023–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • The vans are amazing. I do a double take every time I see them on the road. This is a thorough tour, and I want one: [VIDEO] i

    ctvo on Hacker News · 2023-03
    In Rivian in talks with Amazon to remove exclusivity clause of EV van agreement

  • Love the design (rear lighting, doors, dashboard [1], all the very functional handles and space design for easy movement). It's always funny how it takes electric vehicles for car companies to take risks or do something different. It's much larger [2] than it seems from …

    dmix on Hacker News · 2023-07
    In Amazon’s electric Rivian vans have delivered 150M packages

  • Doug DeMuro did a rather comprehensive walkthrough as well. [VIDEO] Annoyingly, they didn't fix my main UX gripe with delivery vehicles, which is that they use the same lights for the hazards and turn signals. It's quite common for the right half of a stopped …

    ortusdux on Hacker News · 2023-07
    In Amazon’s electric Rivian vans have delivered 150M packages

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