Rivian Automotive, Inc. (RIVN) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Good afternoon, and thank you for joining us for Rivian's second quarter 2026 earnings call. Today I'm joined by RJ Scaringe, our CEO and founder, Claire McDonough, our chief financial officer, and Javier Varela, our chief operations officer. Before we begin, matters discussed on this call, including comments and responses to questions, reflects management's 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 law. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. These risks and uncertainties are described in our SEC filings and the earnings presentation we filed with the SEC today. During this call, we will discuss both gap and non-gap financial measures. A reconciliation of historical non-gap to gap financial measures is provided in our earnings presentation and press release. Just before the earnings call, we posted our earnings presentation, 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 will cover on today's call. Following our prepared remarks, we will be taking questions from sell-side analysts. In the interest of keeping the call to one hour, we would ask these analysts to limit any follow-on questions to one. With that, I'll turn the call over to RJ. Thanks, Chip, and good afternoon, everyone. Thanks for joining us for today's call. In the second quarter, we began deliveries of R2 vehicles to external customers. We expect R2 to be a game-changer for our customers and a driver of Rivian's long-term growth and profitability. Importantly, in a U.S. automotive marketplace starred ...