Only a day after new pre-configured dual-motor R1Ts appeared in Rivian’s R1 Store, Rivian has now added the brand new “Twin-Motor” and “Efficiency Twin-Motor” choices to its on-line configurator for brand new automobiles, letting clients add these choices to their customized R1 builds.

Up till now, Rivians have are available in a quad-motor configuration, with one electrical motor driving every wheel. Whereas this leads to glorious traction, it additionally provides value and complexity. As well as, Rivian outsources the manufacturing of those motors, which provides one other layer of value for the corporate. And price is presently the predominant situation Rivian is coping with because it scales manufacturing.

As a way to handle this situation, Rivian has been engaged on producing its personal “Enduro” drive items. Its first dual-motor vans with these Enduro drive items rolled off the road in Could. And now manufacturing volumes have scaled up sufficient that Rivian is beginning to provide these dual-motor items to clients.

Simply yesterday, these vans began showing on Rivian’s web site within the “car store” part. This isn’t a public part of the positioning – it’s an invite-only space the place preorder holders can see stock automobiles that may be picked up with out having to attend as lengthy for his or her customized construct.

However now, these configurations have been added to the general public configurator so clients can take a look at totally different configurations, and order holders can lock within the cheaper dual-motor fashions.

The bottom mannequin R1T dual-motor now begins at $73,000, and the R1S begins at $78,000 with the smallest “normal” battery pack. These costs are $8,000 down from the bottom quad-motor worth, fairly a giant chunk of financial savings, made even bigger by the elevated availability of tax credit.

Crucially, these numbers are each underneath the $80,000 MSRP cap wanted to qualify for the US EV tax credit score from the Inflation Discount Act, which suggests qualifying automobiles/consumers can get an extra $3,750 again from the federal government on both mannequin.

Including the “Efficiency” dual-motor setup (which was proven to the general public for the primary time final week) will improve you from 533 hp to 665 hp, convey your 0-60 time from 4.5 to three.5 seconds, and set you again $5,000. However you may’t add the efficiency system to a “normal” battery pack, so the bottom worth of efficiency fashions is $84,000.

If you wish to take a look at different configurations, you may head over to Rivian’s R1T or R1S configurator to see what choices can be found on your construct.