NORMAL — Rivian Automotive is investigating the cause of a fire that damaged vehicles in a parking lot at its campus on the community’s west side.
The company’s manufacturing plant was unaffected, said Kelli Felker, corporate communications senior manager.
“We are investigating the cause of a fire that damaged a number of vehicles in a parking lot at our Normal plant late Saturday night,” Felker said in a statement shortly before 1 a.m. Sunday. “The plant itself is unaffected. At this time, we are not aware of any injuries.”
A video circulating on social media late Saturday showed concentrated, bright orange flames in the lot outside the plant.
The Normal Fire Department confirmed that it responded to a fire at the Rivian campus, but could not immediately provide more information.
Emergency vehicles were still at the scene as of 12:20 a.m.
Rivian employs more than 8,000 workers at its manufacturing operations in Normal, where all of the company’s electric pickup trucks, SUVs and commercial delivery vans are produced.
Police are reportedly looking for a South African man with a breeding fetish for questioning
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It’s a reference to Elon Musk.
Oh right, rivian makes EV’s don’t they?
That’s not true. A breeding fetish does not actually aim to produce offspring. Otherwise, people will breeding fetishes would have a LOT of children.
Musk is something weirder. IIRC, he believes that we should try to produce as many offspring as possible to help repopulate the earth or something
Not WE.
He wants as many offspring as HE can make because he thinks his genes are better just because he got lucky and made more money than most
Okay. That’s not weird. I don’t know if I can find a good adjective for that. Psychotic maybe?