emily: curtis milhaupt, thank you for sharing your perspective with us today. coming up, an inside look at a factory in illinois and how the company is fighting the chip crisis. that is next. this is bloomberg. ? emily: shares of rivian lower today. the electrical vehicle maker has been hampered by the global chip crisis but is trying to ramp up output. ed ludlow toured the factory in a limo you with the ceo. ed: productions ramping up at rivian's 3.3 million square-foot ev factory. the company is building three different electric vehicles and it is not easy-going. >> our biggest challenge today resides around the supply chain. it is a small subset of the vehicles which we do have on a constrained basis. it's limiting the overall output for production. ed: a big part of the problem, a lack of semi conductors. the plant is split up with two body lines and two separate assembly lines. one is dedicated to consumer products. review on has focused on its battery electric pickup but is also working on the small volume suv. the other body general assembly lines are bu