Rivian’s e-bike leaks ahead of next month’s announcement

A framework from Also’s October 22nd announcement teaser. | Image: Also

Rivian’s heavy financed micromobilty spinoff Also is promising thing connected October 22nd. Also’s calling it “transcendent mobility,” which is simply a fancy mode of saying e-bike aft a poorly masked video has leaked the alternatively uniquely designed bicycle.

While Also is simply a ineligible abstracted institution from Rivian, it’s chaired by Rivian laminitis and CEO RJ Scaringe. Rivian besides has a important number ownership involvement successful the startup.

Electrek’s Micah Toll did the soiled enactment of parsing a caller teaser video frame-by-frame to extract a fewer blurry images that Also failed to afloat mask. What’s revealed is simply a compact pedal-assisted commuter than tin treble arsenic a inferior conveyance with optional cargo rack, integrated lighting, and what look to beryllium 20-inch wheels. It looks similar a transverse betwixt a compact Gocycle electrical bike and a Cake electrical scooter. I tin lone anticipation that its artillery tin beryllium easy swapped retired and that it folds down to marque it much suitable for multimodal question connected trains and trams.

The Palo Alto-based institution had antecedently said that it plans to motorboat its archetypal flagship merchandise successful aboriginal 2026 with an archetypal absorption connected the US and Europe. That could mean that whatever’s announced connected October 22nd volition person a steadfast preorder play which is precisely what we’d expect from an EV company, adjacent erstwhile that EV is simply a bicycle.