00:00This is MUL 3.2. Come inside.
00:04Seats, screens, motors, zonals, all of it's represented what we're about to see on their DVB build.
00:12All the perks of it being a full asset to see we can charge, can we drive at the same time having the accessibility that Lobcar gives us,
00:20the next thing right after this is the DVB builds themselves which would be a proper R2.
00:30Welcome to Design Studio. This is our studio floor. This is where we develop all of our products.
00:39And as you can see on the wall, it's absolutely full of artwork right now.
00:44And R2, we spent a lot of time thinking about how we design a vehicle that feels 100% Rivian but new, fresh, energetic.
00:52It wasn't just one sketch, you know, there were hundreds and hundreds of hours and ideas that go into trying to find that perfect balance of what they need to be.
01:06The beauty of the studio is this amazing collaboration between engineering and design.
01:11So this creativity meets feasibility.
01:13There's some cost constraints and that's something that's very important without compromising the design in itself as well
01:20because it's not just a beautiful design, not a great sketch that we picked at the beginning, it's how we execute it.
01:28You really need to see and touch and see the whole combination without like going too far like in production you see this.
01:34Oh my I don't like this.
01:37So, we try to make sure each stage just checking step by step, like a not no surprises at the end.
01:43Team make sketch, is one thing, and then seeing a show car is another, but then actually seeing the car delivered to the customer and actually hearing their feedback and how happy they are with that, that's something that you can't put a price on.
02:01Everybody, I'm in our Franklin powertrain test lab.
02:16Here we have Maximus.
02:19Maximus is our next generation Revant drive unit family.
02:22It will serve primarily in the R2 and R3 vehicles.
02:26And we're really proud of the progress that we've made since the Enduro.
02:30It's obviously smaller.
02:31It's way lighter, more cost effective.
02:34We've also managed to reduce the number of fasteners by about 30%, so it makes it a lot easier to manufacture.
02:40We've mounted the inverter off to the side to give us a little bit more clearance in the vehicle for the lower R2.
02:45And we've gone to a continuous winding E-machine that gives us higher performance and also reduces by in order of magnitude the number of welds also simplifying manufacturing.
02:54All in all, we've got a drive unit here that is about 40% more power dense than Enduro, significantly cheaper, a lot easier to build and really allow us to scale.
03:05This is the first drive unit, which we've actually gone straight to hard tooling.
03:10Meaning one moment you're looking at a drive unit on your computer screen and the next moment it's sitting in a test lab ready to spin up and do a power thermal humidity test.
03:18This is what we call Rivian Modular Dino, which the team here have actually developed in-house.
03:26Not only do we use Enduro in R1 vehicles, but we use them as Dinos.
03:30And the property under test currently is Maximus.
03:35This drive unit is now undergoing about a month-long test from extreme low temperatures to extreme high temperatures to simulated rainfall events.
03:42Fundamentally, we really laid the groundwork from Origin to Enduro to now ascend Maximus in terms of understanding and optimizing the use case of the drive unit and a larger market across the globe.
03:55The organization is really structured in a way that allows us to go really fast in development and that's sort of the secret sauce that I think Rivian have and Maximus is the incarnation of all of that data coming together that's behaving exactly what we predicted.
04:13One of the things we're most excited about is we've actually spent the past few years building our technology to be vertically integrated and we use ozonal architecture that allows us to develop very quickly and actually own the whole stack.
04:32Now we've been using that technology to build our R2 platform and over the next year we'll take that to more vehicles than anyone's been able to do with the zonal architecture today.
04:40So this is actually the next generation R2 steering wheel.
04:46They've talked a lot about the different hectics that are going to be going on with the steering wheel platform.
04:50So, this is kind of the testbed that they're testing a lot of those features right now.
04:55And on the table here, I have the focus on what this lab works on, which is the brain of the vehicle.
05:01And so you can see just the size difference in terms of the, you know, density of the hardware that we've been able to shrink down the platform.
05:08Everybody is kind of working towards making sure the hardware is reliable, robust, and ready to go, you know, on that first R2 vehicle rolls off production.
05:20Behind me is the MSP lab car, which we're currently using for active testing and development.
05:26A lab car like this allows a developer to actually see all of the harnessing, all of the ENDP devices, everything on the LV side that their S code might touch.
05:34So the stage between a lab car stage 4 MSP and the DVB, we have something called a mule, which is the bridging point between the lab car and the DVB boat itself.
05:46So this is the one garage.
05:48This is where we work on and up all of our engineering test vehicles.
05:53This is mule 3.2.
05:55Come inside.
05:56Seats, screens, motors, zonals, all of it's represented what we're about to see on DVB build.
06:06All the perks of it being a full asset to see we can charge.
06:09Can we drive at the same time having the accessibility that lab car gives us?
06:13The next thing right after this is the DVB builds themselves, which would be a proper R2.
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