Rivian has started delivering the first major hardware upgrade to its electric van since production began in 2021: a bigger LFP battery pack good for 30% more range, and a new dual-motor AWD version.
The company confirmed in its Q3 2026 shareholder presentation that deliveries of the new variants began in early October. That’s the first real spec bump for a van that has been stuck at about 160 miles of rated range for years.
Rivian (RIVN) just released its Q3 2026 earnings, with revenue up 38% year-over-year to $2.155 billion. The R2, in its first full quarter of deliveries, is already the company’s best-selling vehicle, ahead of both the R1 and the Amazon van.
The results beat Wall Street’s expectations, and Rivian is raising its 2026 guidance on every metric. But the car business is still losing money, and the R2 ramp made the automotive margin worse this quarter.
We’ve got a jam-packed Thursday edition of Green Deals, led by EcoFlow’s final Halloween 48-hour flash sale with offers like the DELTA 3 Ultra 3,072Wh Power Station down at $1,299, and more from $959. There’s also the Anker SOLIX refurbished F3800 3,840Wh Power Station or its 7,680Wh expanded bundle exclusively starting from $1,463. Segway has a short-term Mileage Club Member Sale running for a few more days that gives you some of the best prices on e-scooters after redeeming points, like the F3 Electric Scooter down at a $650 low – plus, without spending points you can also find the GT3 Electric SuperScooter down at $1,499. There’s also an EGO 12-inch Cordless Electric Snow Shovel kit deal, and East Oak’s heated lunch box deals. We’ve also got the hangover deals from yesterday at the bottom of the page, including Jackery’s Halloween power station sale, the new Yozma IN 11 Electric Dirt Bike at an exclusive $1,399 low, and more.
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GM Chief Product Officer Sterling Anderson, who ran Tesla’s Autopilot program in 2015 and 2016, says dropping radar for a camera-only self-driving system is “a weird religious stance that ignores physics.”
It’s the bluntest rebuke of Tesla’s vision-only bet yet from someone who helped build the original Autopilot. And it lands while Tesla is pushing camera-only Cybercabs into driverless service in Austin.
It may be small, but it’s already drawing a big response. The 2027 Fiat Topolino is now on sale in the US: a street-legal, low-speed EV that starts under $15,000.
BYD’s Q3 2026 earnings are out, and net profit jumped 28% year-over-year to ¥10.02 billion as the Chinese automaker shipped more than half a million vehicles out of the country in just three months.
But the rest of the filing is messier. BYD’s inventory is up 60% since January, its cash pile has shrunk by almost half, and profit is still down for the first nine months of the year.
BYD is still operating at a high level, but its business is changing.
Trek is getting a head start on the competition with the latest version of its Marlin+ electric mountain bike, becoming the first North American bicycle manufacturer to feature Bosch’s newly upgraded Active Line Plus motor.
