{"id":344177,"date":"2026-01-21T15:44:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T15:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/rivian-starts-making-the-r2-electric-suv\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T15:44:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T15:44:52","slug":"rivian-starts-making-the-r2-electric-suv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/rivian-starts-making-the-r2-electric-suv\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivian starts making the R2 electric SUV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/rivian-starts-making-the-r2-electric-suv.jpg\" alt=\"ArenaEV\"><br \/>The road to making a new car is long and difficult, and for Rivian, still a fairly young electric car company, the stakes are higher than ever. Last Thursday, the company reached a major goal at its factory in Normal, Illinois. It began building the very first versions of its newest model, the Rivian R2. For now, these first units&hellip; <a href=https:\/\/www.arenaev.com\/rivian_moves_closer_to_launching_the_r2_electric_suv-news-5528.php target='blank'>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/rivian-starts-making-the-r2-electric-suv.jpg\" alt=\"ArenaEV\"><br \/>The road to making a new car is long and difficult, and for Rivian, still a fairly young electric car company, the stakes are higher than ever. Last Thursday, the company reached a major goal at its factory in Normal, Illinois. It began building the very first versions of its newest model, the Rivian R2. For now, these first units&hellip; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/rivian-starts-making-the-r2-electric-suv\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":344178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arenaev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344177","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}