What I sense here you literally want a Wild West show! This is not like ordering a shirt from LL Bean. This is a $70K+ major expenditure, for most families their second biggest expenditure behind a home. I sense here your “putting the cart before the horse” here. Did you ever even sit in a Rivian? Leg & Head room, blind spots, fit in one’s garage, etc. When a problem occurs, and it will, where do you go for service & warrantee work in your New York neighborhood? You cannot put your electric vehicle and mail back to a manufacturer a thousand miles away for service with no tech nor parts in your community. Do you already have a charging station at your home or apartment complex? Do they have a good number at your place of work? Are there a serious number of charge stations within say a 50 miles range of where you live?
Direct sales sounds great for a salesman or a manufacturer, but for mass volume of non-Amazon employees will it work this very second? Suggest you get off your high horse 🐎 and push for thousands of compatible charging stations first.