Amazon electric delivery van plant by rivian.Former MITSUBISHI CAR PLANT Opened in 1988 to 2015.

A TOUR OF THE RIVIAN PLANT Go behind the scenes of production with our founder RJ Scaringe.


JUNE 9TH, 2022

Rivian vehicles are made at our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Normal, Illinois. Watch as Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe walks you through each shop to explain how we’re producing electric vehicles at scale — from Stamping and Body to Paint, Propulsion, General Assembly and End of Line, take the tour to see how our skilled, diverse and dedicated team assembles every R1T, R1S and commercial van.

manufacturing facility in Normal, Illinois.

100 Rivian Motorway, Normal, IL 61761

HISTORY

THIS FORMER MITSUBISHI CAR PLANT
Opened in 1988, closed in 2015. Sold to Rivian in 2017

The Normal, Illinois, plant, formerly a joint manufacturing venture with Chrysler, has churned out more than 3.2 million Mitsubishi and Chrysler models since 1988. It is also the only foreign-owned plant on U.S. soil that employs a union workforce. The Japanese automaker’s contract with the UAW was up for renewal next month but negotiations had not yet begun.The 2.4-million-square-foot plant, about 140 miles southwest of Chicago, has annual production capacity for 120,000 cars and exports to up to 50 countries.


This former Mitsubishi car plantbest year was 2000, when the plant was at triple capacity churning out more than 222,000 cars. Over the factory’s 27-year history, workers assembled a dozen once-popular models: Eclipse (including the Spyder and Plymouth Laser/Eagle Talon twins), Mirage/Eagle Summit, Galant, Endeavor, and the two-door Dodge Avenger, Stratus, and Sebring models.