Rivian’s closely financed micromobilty spinoff Additionally is promising one thing on October twenty second. Additionally’s calling it “transcendent mobility,” which is a elaborate method of claiming e-bike after a poorly masked video leaked the reasonably distinctive design.
Whereas Is also a legally separate firm from Rivian, it’s chaired by Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe. Rivian additionally has a considerable minority possession stake within the startup.
Electrek’s Micah Toll did the soiled work of parsing a latest teaser video frame-by-frame to extract a number of blurry photographs that Additionally failed to totally masks. What’s revealed is a compact pedal-assisted commuter than can double as a utility automobile with non-obligatory cargo rack, built-in lighting, and what look like 20-inch wheels. It appears like a cross between a compact Gocycle electrical bike and a Cake electrical scooter. I can solely hope that its battery might be simply swapped out and that it folds all the way down to make it extra appropriate for multimodal journey on trains, trams, and the again of a Rivian.
Palo Alto-based Additionally had beforehand mentioned that it plans to launch its first flagship product in early 2026 with an preliminary concentrate on the US and Europe. That might imply that no matter’s introduced on October twenty second could have a wholesome preorder interval which is strictly what we’d count on from an EV firm, even when that EV is a bicycle.