If you were in the Rivian community during the R1 delivery era, you already know where this is going. And if you weren't, let me set the scene.
At some point in 2020, someone in the Rivian community figured out that if you clicked into your preorder confirmation email, right-clicked the page it opened, selected "View Page Source," and searched the resulting wall of raw HTML, you could find your reservation order number buried in the code. That number told you roughly where you stood in line. InsideEVs documented the whole thing. Forum members immediately started pooling their numbers to reverse-engineer Rivian's total reservation count. Rivian quietly closed the loophole within days.
It did not stop there. The Rivian Guide became the most anticipated email in the lives of thousands of reservation holders. Guides were the signal that your purchase process was beginning, that your vehicle was close, that your life was about to change. Forum signatures from that era included things like "Guide Contact: Yes, 4/11/22." Just that. The date. No further explanation needed. Everyone understood.
The forums during peak wait anxiety were something to witness. The same questions cycled through every week without fail. When will I get my configure invite? What does my delivery window changing mean? Someone just got a Guide call. What does that mean for the rest of us? Rivian's support team answered these questions thousands of times. Always patient. Always the same: we do not have specific delivery timing to share, keep an eye on your email. A completely correct answer that sent people directly back to reading page source code.
The R2 is coming. Deliveries for non-Rivian employees start soon. We are not doing that again.
That is why we built the Rivian R2 Delivery Tracker at nexusEVnews.
If enough R2 reservation holders submit their data including reservation date, state, configuration, and eventually their first purchase contact date and delivery date, the community builds a real picture of what the actual timeline looks like. Not the official one, which is appropriately vague. The real one. The one that comes from the people living it.
How long between first contact and delivery? We will know when enough people tell us. Do legacy R1 owners get contacted earlier? The data will show it. Are certain states running ahead? You will see it in real time.
The tracker is live at rivian-r2-tracker.nexusevnews.com. Sixty seconds to fill out. When things change, email us and we update your entry.
And here is the part I am most proud of. Every person who checks the tracker instead of calling Rivian's support line to ask when their R2 might arrive is giving a support agent one fewer version of a question they have now answered roughly ten thousand times. You are not just helping yourself. You are helping someone whose job has basically been "Hi, we don't have specific timing to share, keep an eye on your email" for the better part of four years.
Submit your data. Tell your R2 friends. And for the love of everything, nobody open the page source this time.