Southern_Smoke8967 t1_j9rwpu9 wrote on February 24, 2023 at 2:58 AM Reply to comment by aka0007 in Rivian Business Strategy Walkthrough - Do they have what it takes to compete against Tesla? by maliknyc Tesla waited until 2018 to scale up for midel3 which is when negative FCF became big. Rivian on the other hand is scaling up from the get go which is why it has such as large cash burn. Same reason but different ramp up speeds. Permalink Parent 2
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Reply to comment by aka0007 in Rivian Business Strategy Walkthrough - Do they have what it takes to compete against Tesla? by maliknyc
Tesla waited until 2018 to scale up for midel3 which is when negative FCF became big. Rivian on the other hand is scaling up from the get go which is why it has such as large cash burn. Same reason but different ramp up speeds.