Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Rivian, Lucid -- 2Q25 -- August 5, 2025

Locator: 48786EVS.

Rivian results: shares down 4%. A bad report. The losses are expected to get even worse than expected for the full year. CEO blaming tariff / trade policy; could get the rare/heavy earth metals from China that it needed; cut production.

  • Production
    • 1Q: 14,000 units
    • 2Q: 6,000 units
    • obvious question: why weren't they stockpiling rare / heavy earth metals
  • Loss:
    • previous estimate, loss for this year: $1.7 billion
    • now, guidance for loss for this. year: $2.5 billion
  • R2: starts at $45,000
  • the interview with the CEO on CNBC did not install much confidence; 

Lucid:

At CNBC.


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