Overview

• The preliminary evaluation covers roughly 17,198 to 17,200 Rivian Electric Delivery Vans produced in 2022 and 2023.
• Complaints describe the driver’s front outboard seat belt anchorage, which uses a steel-braided cable, potentially fraying, breaking or unraveling and leaving the driver unrestrained.
• NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation has received six complaints and reports no crashes, injuries or fatalities tied to the issue.
• Investigators will assess the assembly’s integrity, the installation method, and possible design or manufacturing defects, which could lead to an engineering analysis or a recall if a safety defect is confirmed.
• Rivian says its vehicles meet applicable safety standards and it will cooperate, and the vans are primarily used by Amazon, which had more than 30,000 Rivian EDVs operating in the U.S. as of June.