{"id":119180,"date":"2023-08-28T15:02:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T15:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/electrek.co\/?p=202166"},"modified":"2023-08-28T15:02:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T15:02:43","slug":"rivians-minivan-image-in-patent-offers-an-exercise-in-imagination-more-than-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/rivians-minivan-image-in-patent-offers-an-exercise-in-imagination-more-than-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivian\u2019s minivan image in patent offers an exercise in imagination more than anything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.evearly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/rivians-minivan-image-in-patent-offers-an-exercise-in-imagination-more-than-anything.jpg\"><br \/>\nImages discovered by a member of Rivian Forums show Rivian has filed a patent with the US Patent and Trademark office for a sliding door on a dual-guide-rail. Interestingly enough, the images in the patent show the door on a minivan-style vehicle. Before speculation runs rampant, we want to point out that this patent is one of hundreds filed by the automaker and likely does not allude to a future Rivian minivan. However, it does present a growing niche Rivian would be well suited to fill <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2021\/09\/20\/rivians-minivan-image-in-patent-offers-an-exercise-in-imagination-more-than-anything\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/rivians-minivan-image-in-patent-offers-an-exercise-in-imagination-more-than-anything\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253225,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119180\/revisions\/253225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}