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Originally Posted by UnknownJinX
VW basically is paying Rivian for their software. The deal heavily favours VW, as the US$6 billions (IIRC) wasn't a one-time payment, but rather unlocked in tranches, requiring Rivian to reach certain performance benchmarks. Rivian so far isn't meeting those.
VW already has Rivian's software after the initial $1 billion investment, and also plans to use Rivian's platforms for their Scout trucks/SUVs in the future. So yeah, Rivian is pretty much just getting used and tossed by VW.
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I'm surprised to hear that the Rivian engineers / software developers aren't able to meet the performance benchmarks. Back when they first demoed their stuff on Audis, it seemed like they were able to pull out some pretty crazy stops to get the Audis working.
Also, given how the software was originally written by Rivian staff, generally these things don't translate well when a completely new batch of software developers take over. The new guys are gonna need a lot of time to familiarize themselves with the code base, and I'd be inclined to think that if the software developers VW had in the first place were any good, they wouldn't have written such crappy garbage on VW's initial cars anyway.