Tim Cook dinner was noticed taking a spin in a Rivian’s electrical pickup truck on Thursday, in line with a report in Bloomberg. The Apple CEO is in Idaho for Allen & Co.’s Solar Valley Convention, the place Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe can also be in attendance.
Often called the “summer time camp for billionaires,” the Solar Valley Convention usually attracts highly effective gamers from the media and finance worlds. Bloomberg cited sources accustomed to the matter, who stated Cook dinner took a metallic inexperienced Rivian R1T downtown from the resort to get dinner.
Apple has been reportedly creating its personal EV since a minimum of 2015, however information of a attainable automobile from the corporate resurfaced late final yr. In November 2021, it was reported that the corporate had refocused its efforts on the event of an electrical automobile, concentrating on the automobile’s potential for autonomy.
Electrical automaker Rivian impressed would-be consumers with its battery-powered pickup truck, which went into manufacturing on the finish of 2021. Reviewing the corporate’s R1S truck, CNET’s Tim Stevens stated: “Whereas it is exhausting to doubt that the Ford F-150 Lightning is essentially the most important electrical truck of the second — exterior of the hyperbolic (and nonetheless nonexistent) Tesla Cybertruck — it is the Rivian R1T that appears to have captured the hearts and minds of most would-be EV truckers.”
Bloomberg beforehand reported that Tesla CEO Elon Musk can also be at this yr’s Solar Valley Convention. Apple didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
