{"id":573,"date":"2019-09-09T11:21:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T15:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/?p=573"},"modified":"2019-09-21T09:54:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T13:54:30","slug":"amazon-may-be-acquiring-rivian-as-tesla-pretends-to-launch-pickup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/2019\/09\/amazon-may-be-acquiring-rivian-as-tesla-pretends-to-launch-pickup\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon may be acquiring Rivian as Tesla pretends to launch pickup"},"content":{"rendered":"
This week, there were two interesting and related events in the electric-truck industry: Tesla announced it was pushing back its electric pickup to November, and Medium published a story claiming Amazon was planning to buy electric pickup company Rivian<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Tesla is always pushing back its vehicles and features<\/a>, so another pushback isn\u2019t too surprising, but the length of time they\u2019ve been working on the electric pickup suggests there was no Tesla pickup in progress at all when Musk made his first announcement. In short, it looks as though Musk was simply trying to rob Rivian of deposits and investors by stealing their thunder with vaporware. It’s a good strategy, really; it’s a major reason why you see Teslas and not Fisker Karmas on the road today.<\/p>\n