Rivian will now sell its commercial van to any fleet, starting at $79,900

Rumors leaked last week, and now it’s official: the Rivian Commercial Van is now available to order for fleets of any size, even down to a single van – but still only for businesses, not individuals.

Rivian first announced it would make electric delivery vans in 2019, as part of a partnership with Amazon, who ordered 100,000 of the vehicles. The company has delivered around 20,000 of the vans to Amazon so far.

The Amazon agreement included a 4 year exclusivity period, where Rivian would only sell vans to Amazon, and no other buyers. That exclusivity period ended in November 2023, and Rivian has been offering up its van to other partners.

When that period ended, Rivian also renamed its vehicle from the “Electric Delivery Van” to “Rivian Commercial Vehicle,” indicating that it would like to sell it for purposes other than deliveries – think contractors, handymen, food trucks (please! I hate smelling exhaust instead of food!) and so on.

It didn’t take long for Rivian to get some interest from other firms, and we’ve seen spy photos of Rivian vans in other liveries roaming around. But we haven’t heard any other huge agreements since the exclusivity period ended.

But today, instead of aiming for large contracts and partnerships like the Amazon deal, Rivian is now introducing a fleet sales program that will take orders from fleets of any size – even as small as a single van.

The RCV comes in two separate models – RCV 500 and RCV 700. The latter is both longer and wider, with much more cargo space.

As with most commercial sales, these are obviously the pre-upfit prices. Your final cost will depend on what sort of upfitting you need to do. Rivian says that its Fleet Sales team will work with buyers to discuss specific upfit needs, or you can always take it to whichever upfitter you already use.

But that’s one important note here: even though Rivian is selling these vehicles to fleets of any size, they are still selling the vehicles to fleets, not individuals. Each van must be registered to a business, so you vanlifers might be out of luck for now (or you’ll have to get creative).

Rivian says that it will start taking orders for its commercial van this month, with deliveries starting in April. So reach out to Rivian fleet sales if you want to get your business on the list.

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