A former executive at the electric vehicle maker Rivian has sued the company, saying she was fired in retaliation, two days after raising complaints about gender discrimination.
Laura Schwab, a former Aston Martin executive who was Rivian’s vice-president of sales and marketing until last month, claimed she was routinely excluded from meetings in which her expertise would have been valuable.
According to a statement released on Thursday, Schwab also raised concerns internally that delivery targets for Rivian’s electric vehicles, which include a pick-up truck and sport utility vehicle, were “not achievable”, but that she was “not taken seriously”.