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Rivian CEO issues strong statement about people who purchase gas-powered cars: ‘Sort of like building a horse barn in 1910’::"I don't think I would have believed it."

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[–] [email protected] 131 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Selling $80k electric cars and making comments like this is sort of like saying 'let them eat cake' in 1780

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (6 children)

If you read the article you’d see that he said that in the context of buying a Chevy Suburban in 2030. Suburbans start at $77k, so I don’t think his comment is that out of line.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's not, of course it's not.

But we know that legacy Reddit users never even bothered to read the articles anyway. Hurray! I missed-- not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I usually dont bother to read articles, because they are seo garbage. I glance at top comments written by true people to verify info instead

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