Good day, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for sending by. Welcome to the Rivians' first quarter, 2023, earning Scotland's conference call. At this time, all participants on a list and only mode. After this biggest presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star 11 on your telephone. You will get an automatic message advised in your hand its raise. Please note that today's conference is being recorded.
I will now hand a conference over to you speaker host, Tim B., Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Good afternoon and thank you for joining us for Rivians' first quarter, 2023, earnings call. Before we begin, matters discussed on this call, including comments and responses to questions, reflect management views as of today. We will also be making statements related to our business, operations, and financial performance that may be considered forward looking statements under federal securities laws. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. These risks and uncertainties are described in our SEC filing and today's shareholder letter. During this call, we will discuss both gap and non-gap financial measures. A reconciliation of gap to non-gap financial measures is provided in our shareholder letter.
Just before the call, we published our shareholder letter, which includes an overview of our progress over the recent months. I encourage you to read it for additional details around some of the items we'll cover on today's call. With that, I'll turn the call over to RJ, who will begin with a few opening remarks. Thanks, Tim. Whoever wanted, thanks for joining us today.
I would like to highlight key developments during the first quarter, as well as discuss progress on our key value drivers. We did a strong start to the year as our team delivered on our targets, including continuing to ramp our one production, integration of the Enduro Motor and LLP battery packs, and improved operating efficiency. This quarter, our best frankline, our chief operations officer, and Nick Kalation, our chief project development officer, to join us for Q&A, giving the importance of the launching ramp of our Enduro Motor platform.
Last week, our R1S was awarded the highest possible safety rating of top safety pick plus from IIAHS, joining our R1T, which earned the award earlier this year. This makes the R1S the only large SUV, and the R1T the only electric pickup to achieve this rating in 2023. During the first quarter, we produced 9,395 vehicles, which reflects continued quarter over quarter growth in our own production. As of March 31, we've now produced nearly 35,000 vehicles since the start of production. Our team drove further improvement in the ramp for our consumer platform while successfully launching new technologies into our commercial land platform.
Production during the first quarter was in line with our expectation, and as a result, we are reaffirming our production outlook for the year of 50,000 total units. In addition to production, we made significant progress on our technology and product development over the month during the first quarter. As described during our last earnings call, we took the EDV line down from most of the first quarter to implement our in-house Enduro Drive units, as well as LFP battery packs.
Our Enduro production line is our first use our internally developed plant-solfer platform, designed to aid in the rapid bring-up of equipment and our robotics. This platform offers greater control over our equipment and visibility to thousands of data points across all parts of the manufacturing process. Enduro is providing cost improvements to our result in a significant reduction in our build materials. We expect to start implementing the Enduro motor into our R1 vehicles as a dual motor configuration during the second quarter of 2023, which will contribute to expanding our address home market by enabling lower priced future R1 variants.
As a reference to the introduction of the Enduro and LFP battery pack, EDV, enable us to reduce the EDV bill in materials by approximately 25%. Our core priorities for 2023 are unchanged. The team remains focused on ramping production for our R1 and RCD platforms, driving cost reductions, developing the R2 platform and future technologies, and delivering an outstanding end-to-end customer experience. Growing production volume improves fixed cost leverage at our large-scale manufacturing plant in Illinois. This is crucial to realizing the long-term structural cost advantages of our vertically integrated strategy and represents the primary lever on our path to sellage vehicle profitably.
While challenges remain, we've become a stronger, more agile company through this process. The duration and magnitude of our impact is directly linked to our ability to produce vehicles profitably. We have a strong sense of urgency in achieving this goal.
Driving lower costs will be enabled by integration of new technologies, such as Enduro and LFP battery packs, as well as our company-wide program designed to maximize efficiency across key cost elements of material costs, logistics, labor and overhead indirect costs, and capital expenditures.
Beyond our push to drive operational efficiency, innovations that deliver both improved performance and range, as well as simplified production are core focus of our development teams.
Much of the work we are doing on R1, including in Doro-driving, its simplified network architecture, and updated sensor set and compute, directly translates to our R2 platform. We are utilizing R1 to help capture and drive learnings to ensure a smoother amphibar too. This alignment of technical road maps between R1 and R2 will help further drive long-term cost efficiencies.
Finally, we continue to progress the purchase process and service experience. This year we expected to grow our physical, go-to-market infrastructure, including our mobile and physical service footprint, charging for our Rivian Adventure Network, and Rivian spaces. Further, we plan to increase engagement with our Priotor customers and drive additional demand by expanding our demo drive program, offering more opportunities for potential customers to experience a Rivian vehicle.
Overall, the prior spring we're making against our core value drivers of ramping production, driving costs down, developing new technologies and platforms, and enhancing customer experience, positions as well to continue executing our goals for a major of the year, as well as into 2024.
With that, I'll post the call over if Claire, for more details on our financial and operating performance for Q1. Thanks, Arjay.
我会将电话转给Claire,以便更详细地了解我们在Q1的财务和运营绩效。谢谢,Arjay。
The teams achievements during Q1 establish an important base of new technologies that will benefit Rivian for quarters to come through greater material cost reduction, enhanced range efficiency, and access to additional market segments. Technology, such as Enduro and LFP, are critical to achieve our long-term target cost structure across current vehicle platforms, as well as our two.
Turning to our first quarter results, we produced 9,395 vehicles and delivered 7,946 vehicles, which was the primary driver of the $661 million of revenue we generated. During 2022, we took measures to drive greater efficiency, which remains our focus for 2023. Compared to our fourth quarter of 2022, Q1 gross profit per delivered vehicle improved 46%. Cash S-GNA expenses were relatively flat, while cash R&D increased slightly, primarily due to restructuring expenses.
Total gross profit for the quarter was negative $535 million, which was impacted by a net charge for LCNRV write downs on inventory and losses on firm purchase commitments. The cumulative inventory write downs and losses on firm purchase commitments of $822 million is comprised of $561 million of write downs related to inventory on hand and $261 million of losses on firm purchase commitments. Given we are now in a new fiscal year, the LCNRV charge of $229 million, you will see on our statement of cash flows, is reflected of the charge on new inventory purchased and firm purchase commitments entered into in Q1. The cumulative LCNRV and firm purchase commitments of $822 million represents a $98 million decrease versus the prior quarter. Do primarily to significant reductions in material costs for the EDB and an increase in average selling price for our R1 vehicles.
As the cumulative LCNRV inventory write down decreases, we expect to see an increase in net inventory balances and over time, and net decrease in cost of goods sold per vehicle. We forecast reaching positive gross profit in 2024 and therefore expects by the end of 2024, we will no longer have material LCNRV inventory charges and losses on firm purchase commitments associated with our production at our normal plant.
Total operating expenses in the first quarter of 2023 fell to $898 million as compared to $1.1 billion in the same period last year. The primary driver of the reduction in operating expenses was related to decreases in stock-based compensation. We continue to prioritize investments in our core in vehicle technologies and customer experience while also driving additional focus and cost optimization across the business.
Adjusted EBIDAS for the first quarter of 2023 was negative $1.1 billion as compared to negative $1.1 billion for the same period last year. Capital expenditures were $283 million in Q1 of 2023 as compared to $418 million during the same period last year.
We ended the first quarter of 2023 with $11.8 billion in cash equivalents and restricted cash. Importantly, during the quarter we took steps to reinforce our robust liquidity position. Maintaining a strong balance sheet is a key priority. It provides a buffer during volatile industry conditions and mitigates risk while scaling significant gross capital projects. It also allows us to focus on delivering against our long-term gross plans including the past to positive gross profit in 2024 as well as the launch of R2.
During the first quarter of 2023, we issued green convertible senior notes due in 2029 which generated proceeds of approximately $1.5 billion. In mid-April, we announced an amendment to our asset-based revolving credit facility which doubles the available revolving commitments to $1.5 billion extends the maturity to 2028 improves borrowing availability by more efficient lending on concurrent assets and increases are permitted in debt-in-diff provisions to expand debt capacity. In aggregate, these transactions have increased Ravian's liquidity profile by over $2.4 billion, provide debt maturity beyond the launch of R2 and are our diversified approach to funding the business.
We remain confident that our cash can fund operations through 2025 and believe with these recent additions, we have strengthened our balance sheet as we approach the launch of R2 in 2026. I also want to take this opportunity to reiterate our gross profit bridge from Q1 2023 to Q4 2024. We continue to target positive gross profit in 2024.
Excluding the impact of LCNRV and firm purchase commitments, we expect approximately half of the improvement will be driven by greater volume and utilization of our installed capacity. Our 2023 production guidance of 50,000 units implies a doubling of capacity utilization which will result in significantly lower fixed cost per vehicle. And we expect production volumes to increase further in 2024. The remaining half is split between increases in average selling prices and material cost reduction.
Lower material costs will be enabled by the integration of new technologies such as Enduro and LFP battery packs, which delivered about a 25% material cost reduction for our commercial vehicles in Q1 versus Q4. In addition to the engineering design driven cost reductions, we also expect to realize commercial cost savings as we negotiate with our suppliers. The increase in average selling prices is based upon the gradual improvements we expect to achieve as we complete the fulfillment of our pre-march 2022 pre-order base as well as the introduction of new technologies that produced improved performance and capabilities.
While gross margin is expected to remain negative in 2023, Q1 represented significant progress versus Q4 2022 with gross profit loss per delivered vehicle nearly cut in half. This was due to cost of good sold improvements and higher average selling prices. During the first quarter of 2023, cost of good sold benefited from lower LCNRV, freight, and material cost versus Q4 2022. While performance for any particular quarter may vary, we expect these trends to persist throughout 2023.
We are reaffirming all aspects of our 2023 guidance. Most notably, we are reaffirming 2023 total vehicle production of 50,000 units and 2023 EBIDO guidance of negative $4.3 billion, which represents an improvement of $900 million versus 2022. Additionally, we expect capital expenditures for 2023 will be $2 billion.
In closing, I want to reiterate our confidence in our long-term financial targets. We see a clear path to our approximately 25% gross margin target, high-teens EBIDO, a margin target, and approximately 10% free cash flow margin target.
With that, let me turn the call back over to the operator to open the line up for Q&A. Thank you, Lisa and gentlemen, to ask a question, you will need to press star 11 on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced. To withdraw your question, press star 11 again. In order to accommodate all participants in the queue, please limit yourself to one question and one follow-up.
Please send by while the company can air us through. Now, first question coming from the line up, John Murphy with Bank of America, you're on a soaping.
Good afternoon, guys. Just wanted to ask a first question on pricing. RJ, your entire strategy, you've looked at the lifetime revenue opportunity of the vehicle and really thought about that in a holistic way. I think I have a pretty good view of that. There are some folks that are taking that view and saying, hey, listen, I can cut my upfront price on the vehicle and not make that much money on it and make up the profitability on the backend from that lifetime revenue and profit opportunity.
I'm just curious, as you think about the company and the strategy and the philosophy of running it, if you would ever think of embracing something like that, and then maybe as a sort of a second part of that question, you're talking about raising pricing, so you're kind of going in the opposite direction. How should we think about the cadence of the roll off of the pre-march 22 pre-orders that had the price protection? Thanks, John.
These are, I think, really relevant questions here for us as we think about the pricing of the vehicles. In the case of our one, this is our flagship product. So from a flagship product, one of you, we've introduced with what we call our large pack and with our quad motor and over the course of the next several months, we're going to be launching our max pack, which introduces a higher price variant to our one, and it'll also be introducing our dual motor within our driving, which introduces our entry configuration. And so we're both going to be growing pricing on some variants but also offerings from our lower price variants at the same time.
And for us, really important with that is giving customers, and we see the data giving customers what they're looking for, and a significant portion of our customers are looking for the best of the best when it comes to our one platform in terms of wanting to get the maximum range and maximum performance. And so we are really looking forward to getting the max pack out there, and that will contribute to growing SP. But as you said, the other element is the growth in post-march first orders, as Claire noted, the pre-march first orders have a lower price, and as we start to come off of those orders and into newer orders, that's going naturally start to shift pricing up, or are you seeing that in Q1 of this year? So those two together give us a lot of confidence in ASP growing over time for the R1 platform.
Now, more broadly as we think about the business in terms of revenue options beyond the initial sale, this is something we also believe strongly, and it's driving a lot of the investment we're making into our technology platforms, of course, around Nali, our full software stack, but importantly, what we're building with autonomy. And as I noted in my opening comments, a lot of work is underway right now on our next generation platform for new sensors set, updated sensors that I should say, as well as updated compute, which will allow us, as we look at future variants and future products, to really over-deliver when it comes to the level two, level three self-driving feature set, and enable our ability to monetize that as well.
So that we certainly see as part of the business in the long term, and above and beyond self-driving there are other opportunities to create, meaningful recurring revenue. And some of those we've started to launch and initiate already with our insurance product, with some of the financing products that we have. So we do see the businesses you pointed out very holistically across the lifecycle of the products.
But just to follow, Bargette, you would never cut price on the front end to drive the hardware sale, to get the profit back over time on sort of the software and services side over time. You believe you need to earn adequate rebargings and returns on the front end, even though you have this opportunity in the back. Is that a fair statement? For us with your own platform, our strategy isn't certainly as good to do that, but longer term is the business evolves. I'm sure we'll talk about this today and the Q&A portion. We're putting a tremendous amount of focus on driving cost efficiencies into our two platform. That's how the vehicle's architected. That's how we're looking at part consolidation. It's how we're thinking about everything from network architecture to ECU topology across the vehicle to drive cost efficiencies, to facilitate, obviously, a much lower price vehicle, but also to give us flexibility in the long term to look at different revenue streams and different revenue opportunities. But as it stands on R1, as a ridder at the start, we do see ASD continuing to expand and grow, both because of, we're pulling a new post-march one customers as well as the expanded number of offerings that bring in things like Max Pack and certainly, we'll be continuing to push on the features that allow us to fully access customer and event.
Okay, and if I can just ask one follow up here on the virtual factory technologies that you use for the Indoro, Wonder Launch, can you just kind of explain what that actually means? And how can you use that in the future and how much that saves you in the launch process as far as time and money?
Yeah, this is an important development. Our team's not working hard, and Indoro represents, for us, really, the sort of a full embodiment of what we believe are capable of in terms of both practice engineering as well as our manufacturing engineering teams. And the close integration between those teams led to a lot of innovations, which we've talked about in previous calls, in terms of park consolidation and overall design simplification. But what's not necessarily seen in the product is how we're manufacturing it. And the bring up of this line is gone very smoothly. It's a head of schedule. We're actually ahead of our ramp curve, which is a great thing. What a lot of that's been facilitated by really careful planning from the teams, but also what I referred to in the open comments. We've developed a platform that allows us to very seamlessly bring up all the PLCs, all the controllers and all the robotics and the equipment associated with that, much more seamlessly by creating effectively an extraction layer that we control from a plant software point of view. And we can access equipment much more seamlessly. And we can bring up the equipment much more seamlessly if then when we're working through a variety of third party platforms to do those things.
Hey everybody. So my first question is for Frank. You're coming up on one year at the company as COO. When you think about the next 12 months, where do you see the greatest opportunity to improve efficiency at normal? And what would you point out as the greatest risk to execution from here?
Thanks, Frank. Yeah, thanks Adam for the question. I mean, my priority is certainly for the next 12 months is to continue focusing on the ramp up in normal, certainly driving down the cost as RJ and Claire already mentioned. And certainly also already preparing the ramp up of our R2 platform. And this is, I think, will give us a competitive advantage as we are already as a team, jointly together with Nick, working on the next generation R2 and really preparing that. And you've seen, we've already in the last few months shown that we are in line with the expectation on the Q1 production numbers and really anticipate continuing the ramp up of the R1 line.
And we will really see in the second half of this year that we should see the numbers being really close to our installed capacity. Again, on the cost initiative, yes, I mean, we still see a significant gap on what we should be paying our suppliers and what we're currently paying. So what we've done in the last few months is starting to engage the discussions with every single supplier and to show them the gap. And we're working on closing the gap within the next few months. So this is really my priority. I think we have a great plan in place. So right now for me, it's literally just executing the plan that we put together as a team.
Thanks, Frank. And RJ just a follow up for you. Now that you've been released from exclusivity on the EDV, you able to provide any update on status of discussions with other commercial customers at a high level in the last few months.
Thanks. Thanks, Adam. You know, we're at this point continues to focus on production point of view on really the single customer with Amazon. And in terms of, you know, looking beyond the exclusivity into other customers, we do see a broad set of needs in the commercial space and as you well know, these are a long lead time discussions and negotiations, especially for some of these larger contracts. So those have been underway for some time now. And certainly plans of a long term plan for the platform. And it's been something we've been working very closely with Amazon on to allow us to pursue these other customers as quickly as possible.
Hey, good afternoon, everyone. Thanks for taking my questions. I was wondering if you could help us understand a little bit the little more granularity. Some of the leverage you could have to ED commodity prices coming in, you mentioned the past that your contracts from 2018, 2019 are expiring any additional color you greatly appreciate it.
This is important. Frank referenced it a bit in his previous comment, but you know, a lot of our, the vast majority of our bill materials from when we started production, were negotiated in contracts, you know, in the 2018, 2019 timeframe. So it was, you know, a few years before we'd started production, certainly we didn't have the negotiating leverage that we have today.
And as we wind the clock forward through to today, the level of excitement and engagement that we have from suppliers is, it's absolutely night and day. So there's a tremendous amount of passion to drive towards, help us drive towards profitability. Really as the supplier see us as a significant partner going forward and are excited, not just about our one, but are certainly very excited about the R2 platform as well.
So as Frank talked about, these are negotiations that are happening real time. We're working closely with our partners to find appropriate cost down paths to achieve our targets and to achieve the long term profitable in our one, but also to, you know, set up the relationships to be profitable very rapidly on our two.
As a follow up, asking for a friend, any curious on timing for the max pack, curation for the R1 platform? Thanks. Yeah. My dad's been asking me that a lot lately too. So I think that there's a tremendous amount of excitement for the max pack. And we are working very hard to bring that forward. I think as I noted at the beginning, it certainly also helps us grow ESP. So there's a lot of reasons. In addition to your friend and my dad's satisfaction of pulling max back in as quickly as possible. Thank you. Thank you.
And our next question coming from the line off. Rod Latchman with research. Lana Sopin. Hi, everybody. I know that you are not talking about backlog anymore. I'm a consumer side, but I was hoping RJ you might be able to just give us some color, first of all, on what you're seeing in terms of demand trends. Just on that side of the business.
Sure. Thanks, Ron. And we'll backlog, you know, so it sends well into 2024. I think important to note here is just the engagement we have with customers and the level of satisfaction that our early customers, the first 35,000 or so customers are having really creates a powerful flywheel where our biggest and I would say most important advocates are the buyers of our vehicles. And so with that said, we continue to see that through the online forums, we see that through the communities that are forming. And we even see that through third party recognition, JD Power, how to suborder with the highest level of customer satisfaction of any vehicle in the 2023 ratings, which was great. And it's really reflective of the brand.
We're working so hard to build, but also the experiences we're trying to create across the full life cycle of the ownership experience. Now, with that said, the work that we're gonna continue to do over the course of this year, and I noted this earlier, will help us expand brand visibility and brand awareness. So the additional physical spaces that we're building out that sell infrastructure or service infrastructure that we're building out will continue to contribute to that growing flywheel of awareness and growing flywheel of demand.
Great, thanks for that. And Claire, I wanna make sure that we're thinking about the underlying gross profit, XCl, CNRV impact correctly. Because I think that we're seeing some signs of improvement here, even with the downtime that you took. And probably before the impact of this, the 25% decline in bomb on the RCV, in the past, you suggested that we look at the difference in the LCNRV charge, so that would be 98 million this quarter.
So broad strokes, would you say that on the gross profit line, a clean run rate was a bit over 600 million dollar loss on 8,000 units delivered versus 760 million or so on kind of similar delivery volume last quarter. And is that the run rate from which you're bridging to break even or you talk, you're referring to the full year guidance?
Well, that's correct. That's the run rate that we're looking on, as I mentioned, right, prepare remarks on the Q1 block from current Q1 gross profit, excluding the impact of LCNRV to where we expect to be in Q4 of 2024. And as you rightly noted, we saw 17% improvement quarter over quarter as we went from Q4 to Q1.
OK, so it sounds like you're confirming that. And is your bridge sort of holding commodities somewhat flat in your guidance bridge? Or how do you sort of think about, as we're seeing, lithium carbonate hydroxide costs falling? What, how are you sort of factoring that into your bridges at this point?
Sure, the way I would characterize it is within the forecast guide to that Q4 2024, the expectations are for more of a normalized state of commodity costs. So we have set another way. We haven't expected material reductions in commodity costs, even though we in the course of the last quarter have seen significant declines in the cost of lithium carbonate. And lithium hydroxide as well.
Great. Thanks, guys. So my first question is on the 25% reduction of the bill in materials as a result of the LFP pack and Enduro, which I think is an interesting data point. You expect something similar when you start rolling those technologies out with R1. And if that comes alongside a price hike, it seems like the impact on gross margin could be pretty material. I just don't know if it has such a big impact on the bill in materials for R1 as well.
Yeah, Alex, thanks for the question. And as Claire noted, we're excited to see the 25% reduction that we referenced start to make its way into numbers in Q2 as the EDV line comes back on. And we'll see those numbers in Q2. But for R1, this is a really important development. It's part of a broader set of developments that when we talk about a lot of the R&D work and innovation that we're driving, a big portion of this is focused on driving cost out and driving the supply of the product. And I'd like to invite Nick just to talk a bit about some of the work that we're doing there. Inclusive of Enduro, but there's a host of other work streams that we're going to start to see come to light.
Yeah, thanks, RJ. So the Enduro driving is a significantly less expensive product and diversifies our supply chain, which brings additional value. When we think about the EDV experience that we've been able to deliver on over the last quarter with the ramp of Enduro and the integration of LFP, and that 25% reduction is really impactful and we expect to see something similar in R1 as we look over the next couple of quarters in the beginning of next year.
OK, great. Second question on CAPEX. Saw that you maintained the $2 billion guidance. But that's a pretty, that implies, I guess, a pretty material step up versus what you spent in Q1. So just wondering maybe if qualitatively and or quantitatively, if you can talk through what that money is your mark for in the back half, and if there's any potential to maybe differ some of that in order to protect the cash balance.
True, Alex, as we think about the cadence of our CAPEX, as you can imagine, with the $2 billion guide that we have, that implies significantly higher levels of CAPEX over the remaining three quarters of the year. And for us, our expectation is we're going to make significant investments predominantly in tooling as we think about some of the next generation technologies that will start to be introduced throughout the course of 2023. And then importantly, as we've talked about in prior earnings calls before throughout the course of 2024 as well. And so I would say that's one of the primary drivers of our CAPEX spend beyond that. There's incremental payments associated with the commissioning and utilization of our indoor line, where we have the line fully running today, but all of that cash is not yet out the door at Rivian. And then beyond that, as RJ alluded to, continued build out of our good-to-market infrastructure as we're building out incremental service centers, charging network, things of that nature as we continue to grow and scale the business in aggregate. Based off of your second part of your question on availability to defer CAPEX, given the lumpy nature of our CAPEX deployment and spend, there certainly is some likelihood, especially as we think about some of the Georgia CAPEX initiation that some of that could fall into 2024 relative to 2023.
Hi. Good evening. Thanks for taking the question. First, I want to ask about the constraints that normal. In the past, I think you said the largest constraint on production was on PowerSemmy. So just want to get a sense of where that stands. And we've heard about tightness on a Silicon carbide. I know you use Silicon carbide in IGBT, but how much is the tight Silicon carbide supply still a challenge for you?
Thanks, Dan. One of the things we've embedded in our comments here and we should add some more color to is, with the bring up of the Enduro drive unit, it's not only providing us with a lower cost propulsion platform, but it also helps us diversify our supply chain with regards to the power modules.
So bring on additional suppliers of both Silicon IGBT, but also Silicon carbide. And that was very intentional. And we've designed the ramp up of that such that it helps alleviate some of the constraints we have on our existing quad motor Silicon carbide supply, which we've talked about in the past as being one of the major ramp constraints.
This is also something that as we look forward into R2, we're spending a lot of time on to make sure that these constraints aren't there. And Nick's team in designing our next generation of inverters and power modules have spent a tremendous amount of effort to ensure that we really consider some of the long-term constraints that we see in this space.
I think the comments earlier about when we sourced a lot of the components for our water really relevant in power semi-s as well, the supply base for our original launch configuration was a relatively smaller set of players than who we're working with today for both Silicon and Silicon carbide. And as we move into Enduro, and we move into those larger, more mature suppliers, we build out that capacity today, and we build those relationships toward the future as we think about our two.
It was fair to say that as you're sort of addressing the Silicon carbide issue in a variety of ways instead, as this is addressed, your piece of production should increase dramatically, which is implied within your guidance in any case. I think I touched it. Yeah, that's right. OK, great. Thank you.
Second question. And I think you've addressed this somewhat with Enduro and LFT. But wondering what other opportunities you have within the vehicle to potentially be content for their work to help reduce the material cost. I know you've talked about working with suppliers to try to cut away some of the costs. But within the engineering of R1 itself, what are their opportunities might there be to decontent to help improve the path to break even?
Yeah, so Enduro and LFT are clearly big pieces of the puzzle. And I think we tend to talk about those because their customer facing, we're offering different range packs and different configurations. There's a lot of work that's also going on under the covers to make sure that we have continued cost reduction.
Arjased talked in the past about moving to a zone of architecture, which really has a significant impact on the number of DCs in the vehicle, the complexity and cost of the harness. And those both have significant impacts with Frank and the factory on our ability to reduce labor content in the vehicles. We also are looking at a series of body manufacturing updates late this year, updates adjoining technology and materials to help improve yield and lower cost.
We have a new part of the MAXFAC and the large-back platform coming early next year that involves some significant changes to the battery structure that really pull out costs and, again, drive up manufacturer abilities. So again, some of these are really customer-facing things, but our goal is to offer better value to customers.
And then some of these things like a zone of architecture are success means nobody notices that we've made all these changes under the hood. I think just a note, Nick referred to, and I referred to it, the updates are making to our network architecture really laid the groundwork for what we're doing with R2. And one of the benefits of developing all the electronics in the vehicle, and of course, the software stack in the vehicles, as we've now reached a level of maturity where we're consolidating a number of those DCs and removing not only a lot of DCs from the vehicle, while maintaining feature set, but also, along with that massively simplifying the vehicle harness.
And all that workflows very naturally into R2, so we finally take cost out of R1, but we be risked the launch of R2. Great, a number of works you've had. Thank you.
Thank you. Our next question coming from the line of BJ Rakesh with Mizuhau Group Yelena Sopen. Here, I just a couple of quick questions. On the dual motor, in the LFP, what makes the area assuming of your shipments or deliveries will be on those as you ramped those to the year?
谢谢。接下来的问题来自Mizuhau Group Yelena Sopen的BJ Rakesh。这里只有几个快速的问题。就双电机而言,在LFP方面,您认为会有哪些因素导致您的出货或交付集中在其中,以便您在今年加速推广?
And in the case of our commercial vans, 100% of their commercial vans are moving to an LFP pack configuration and the indoor drive unit. As it pertains to the R1 platform, we expect at a drivetrain level between what we call our origin, the quad motor and the zero, the dual motor, to be about a 50, 50 split.
We have the flexibility within our production capabilities to flex the upper downsome. But as you heard from myself and Frank earlier, the supply chain constraints run, the power semi is really a key consideration, and that flexibility of our production lines to respond to any supply constraints that make them up is really important.
Now, in the case of our R1 battery pack, we will be introducing what we call our standard pack. But that's going to be a little later than this year. Got it. And you mentioned the higher ASB sales. Just wondering how that is ramping. Is all your delivery post mattress replaced on the higher ASB vehicles?
Yes. So the pre-march first vehicles have a lower price point. And we're actively, with every vehicle we deliver of those, we have its one lesson. We start to work towards a growing mix of post-march first reservations and predators. So over the course of really the next year, we hope to work through those pre-march first orders and get into newer post-march 122 orders. Got it. Thank you.
Thank you. And our next question coming from Delina. Tom Narian with RBC Capital. Yelena Salpin. Hi. Thanks for taking the question. And apologies if you answered this just a quick question on the guidance, the EBITDA guidance.
If I take the Q1, adjust the EBITDA and annualize it, I get a number that's only I think 6% below your full year guide. I know deliveries should probably ramp higher and you have these costouts. Just curious as to maybe is a quarterly cadence dynamic that's leading to that EBITDA guidance, for the full year?
Sure, Tom. As we think about the overall EBITDA cadence overall, it's driven by a couple of key factors. First and foremost, while we'll be improving our overall cost of goods sold per unit, we are still running at a lost position throughout the course of 2023. And so as we go throughout the courses of the year this year, we'll see some variability both in terms of how rapidly we're taking down the LCNRV charges throughout the course of the year, which is one factor, as it pertains to our adjusted EBITDA that will be reporting. And then the other factor that we'll have as well is really as we think about the three key drivers of ramp material cost and ASP and this trajectory that we expect to see as we continuously improve on each of those core drivers as the year progresses on, but we'll be delivering greater volumes of vehicles albeit at lower lost positions as we continue to scale throughout the year.
OK. And just kind of a high level question, wondering for RJ, wondering how you think about the long term market opportunity for your consumer offering in light of what appears to be maybe increasing competition from legacy OEMs, particularly in trucks and NSUVs, does that change kind of how you view the market opportunity of longer term or do you view it as kind of different kind of worlds? And certainly these legacy OEMs are getting more competitive with specifically with EVs across these vehicles.
Yeah, thanks, Tom. Yeah. And today with the R1 product, we're seeing demand relative to others that are in similar segments or similar price points that's significantly outpacing sort of similarly priced vehicles. So at this price point, the R1 platforms, really the leader in terms of overall share. And that level of excitement and demand that we're seeing there is reflective of the way we've approached the brand and the features and the overall product design. And of course, we hope to carry that into much lower price point with the R2 platform and the R2 platform, while it will have a number of other players that are offering products that are in that price range of 40 to $50,000.
The way we're thinking about it and the things we're excited about with regards to the product is just how unique we can make it in terms of capturing the core essence of everything we've shown with the flagship products with a product that ultimately delivers on a high level performance both on and off road, a tremendous amount of capability and the ability to sort of enable and inspire folks to take the kinds of ventures where you need to fit your pets, your kids, your gear into the vehicles. So we of course, haven't shown R2 yet. We've all seen it. So we have asymmetric information on what it looks like and what it is.
But I can say we have a tremendous amount of confidence around the product we're developing and how that not only fits our brand so nicely, but we think really provides an extension to the dressable market relative to what we've done with R1. Yeah, I think it's important as well. Sorry, it's important as well to extend the vision of what we're doing well beyond the electric powertrain. Like the CEOs are moving in this direction, which is great for the overall mission.
But we really do focus on that overall customer experience and what we can deliver with a combined hardware software platform, the fact that we've been shipping a product for less than two years and it influenced for like Marcus Brown, who would say best SUV in the world. We have a software experience and overall customer experience that we're really proud of. And we think differentiate beyond just being an electric vehicle.
Yeah, I guess relative today, we haven't really seen what the legacy OEMs have done yet. Right? A lot of these launches are still yet to come. 2024 specifically, we're going to see a couple more. And then obviously, as we get further in the decade, that's what I was referring to. Today, obviously, it's not as robust, especially in the US. But in the coming years, I would think it's that competition intensifies more. That's kind of what I was referring to.
I think the other thing to keep in mind and Nick references is in the not-to-distant future, everything will be electric. So being electric alone isn't a sufficient differentiation point. It really ties into the ultimately, what's the way the product comes together, the interplay between software, the electronics in the vehicle, of course, the dynamic performance of the vehicle, the packaging, and the architecture of the vehicle. And Frank referred to it, I referred to it, but how many manufactures both the vehicle, which ultimately drives the cost structure for what we're building. So given the significant change of the electric creation offers, though, it does create new opportunities in terms of how we architect the vehicle, how we design the cost structure, and then the types of driving dynamics and experiences that can be delivered.
All right, great. Thanks. Thank you. Our next question coming from the line up, James Picarello with the NP Parable, Galenis Alpin. James Galenis Alpin. I think the reception cut out for me. Can you hear me? Yeah. We can. Yeah.
OK. I think this is a fast, but just want to clarify, given the 25% bomb savings, it'll be meaningful. As we think about next year, what could the mix of your total R1 production be tied to LFP and Enduro? I imagine you have some visibility into that, based on your reservations. And can you just remind us if there's going to be an impact to the lines as you integrate Enduro on LFP into R1, similar to what we saw for EDV, this past quarter?
Next. As I referenced before, we expect from an Enduro. So the dual motor versus the quad motor on R1 to be roughly a 50, 50 split. And in the case, the commercial bands, 100% of those will be within DROD driving it. In terms of how we plan to ramp up R1 within DRO, it's important to note that while we brought the EDV line down in Q1 for the integration of both Enduro and the LFP, it was also we were bringing up the Enduro line. And the significant cost savings that that propulsion package delivered really led us to make the decision to bring down EDV while we brought those lines up and ramped them. I'd like to just invite Frank to have a few comments on the ramp up in DRO and how that will soon be feeding R1 as well as EDV. And I referenced this before, but a big part of it beyond just plant software, beyond the equipment, beyond the design of the product is also the operations of the team and how the team's working and how we've set up training and the programs around that.
Yeah, thanks, RJ. I mean, the Enduro ramp up, we started production at the beginning of February, and we're already exceeding our anticipated ramp up curve. So from ramping up the Enduro, I don't see significant challenges ahead of us. And the differentiating factor between introducing EDV at the Enduro into the EDV versus R1 is that on the EDV, we did shut down the line. And on R1, we plan on continuing producing the R1 while we are introducing the Enduro motor into the R1 product. We've already actually built several Enduro motors into the R1 just to really test the production. And it really works seamlessly. So I don't see a major impact on the ramp up curve of the R1 as we introduce Enduro as a significant change to the R1 product.
Yeah, as Frank said, the Enduro we've introduced, we've produced quite a few. And we're blending those into the line for R1. I've been driving an Enduro R1S now for the past month. And it's really incredible. I can't wait for customers to get their hands on it. So as Frank said, the risk around the Enduro bring up in R1S is really well managed. And we've been very intentional around how we've ramped that line and how we've planned integration of Enduro into R1. And we've really put a lot of emphasis in preparing the team and training the team offline and online to make sure that the team is capable and ready to ramp up R1 with the Enduro motor as well.
God, that's super helpful. And then just two quick ones. Is the first half of next year still the timeframe for normals capacity, re-rating to the R1? And then is there any update on the Georgia plan in center of Southam? Thank you.
Yeah, on the first question. Yeah, that is the plan. We plan on re-rating their online in 2024. As we also use that opportunity to modify the line to incorporate the technical changes that Nick mentioned. So this will happen in 2024. So we're already in preparation of this on the one hand with the equipment suppliers preparing the team. So that's going according to plan. And then there's the second question on Georgia related in center. A couple of weeks ago, the Georgia pellet court decided with the state in a ruling over the taxidatements for the project and ruled in favor of the state position. So the tax on four of the five aspects of the appeal, the court ruled in favor of Georgia and therefore, you know, Radiant benefits as part of that ruling overall. So a great moment, as we sit here today on progress in Georgia.
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And our next question coming from the line of Jordan Levy with Truist, Yolanda Smelvin. Jordan Levy, Yolanda Sulpin. Apologies, my line cut out for a second.
Afternoon, I'll wonder just quickly if we could talk about the build out of the adventure network and the importance of growing that and any potential benefits that might be able to be realized from the IRA as you build that out.
Yeah, thanks, Jordan. The work we're excited about building out more of our RAN network, our Rivian Adventure Network. And today we've been deploying into what we think of is like the first batch of sites to really ensure the uptime and sure the equipment's working as planned and just as reference, this is the charging equipment, the DC fast chargers we've designed, those internally. We also build those in normal. So we have a production line dedicated to building those chargers. We're going through making some updates to the product as well to facilitate it becoming an open network. And Nick, this is something your team's working really. Really hard on. We just had our review on it last week. It's going to be more excited about getting more of these out there. So we just provide some more commentary on some of the work that you're doing there.
Yeah, sure. So just to put some numbers behind it, we have 27 sites open today, which represents about 150 chargers in locations across the country. We've picked these to be sort of relevant to our customer base as we think about routes from places like the Bay Area, Ptoho or LA up to Mammoth. Those units as already referenced are showing really strong uptime. And that's really the key. The customer feedback about the overall user experience has been excellent. The number one complaint is why aren't there more of them? So that's what we're working hard to accomplish. But we really want to scale that based on solid data that we have the uptime. We're going to have a dependable network. And then we expect later this year we'll be able to accelerate the number of installs. And then again, continue that. Some minor modifications to the equipment to be able to open the network up beyond Ruby and customers. And we look forward to being in position to take advantage of that money funding. There's $5 billion. It's net-based funding available. And then in addition to that, the charging and fueling infrastructure program, which has an incremental $2.5 billion available. So we're excited to use some of those government grants to accelerate our rollout of the RAND network. And we're uniquely positioned to use the US police chargers at our normal facility.
I will now turn the call back over to RJ Scorinch for any closing remarks. Well, thank you everyone for joining the call. We enjoyed talking about some of the progress we made in the last quarter. We're certainly, as you heard from all of us, very much looking forward to the quarters. And years ahead, we have a lot of work to do in terms of continuing to drive our production ramp and drive costs down. We're operating with an incredible level of focus and urgency as we drive towards that. But the excitement that we're seeing from customers and the passion that we're seeing from customers that want to get future products is certainly a motivating force for all of us within the Rivian. And we're looking forward to continuing to show progress quarter over quarter as we work towards not only profitability, but significantly higher volumes. So thank you everyone for joining and look forward to the next call. Please, thank you all, and that doesn't got a conference for today. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.