Surging inflation, higher interest rates and higher commodity prices have hurt the company’s ability to raise funds, according to Rivian Chief Executive Officer RJ Scaringe.
Automotive is cutting about 6% of its workforce and simplifying product plans, saying the economy has made it harder for the electric-vehicle maker to raise money to build up production.
The Irvine, California-based company confirmed the cuts Wednesday in an internal memo from Chief Executive Officer RJ Scaringe. Surging inflation, higher interest rates and higher commodity prices have hurt the company’s ability to raise funds, he wrote. “We need to be able to continue to grow and scale without additional financing in this macro environment,” Scaringe said in the memo. “To achieve this, we have simplified our product roadmap and focused on where it is most impactful to deploy capital.” , marks a pullback after the EV maker expanded over the past year to support a production ramp-up.
The reduction will eliminate hundreds of jobs, given Rivian’s workforce of about 14,000 split across the factory in Normal, Illinois, and its headquarters in California, as well as sites in Michigan, the UK and Canada. The cutbacks won’t include manufacturing-operations workers in Normal, according the memo.
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