Starbucks shocked many when it announced its coffee shops, which were a haven for remote workers looking for a change of scenery, would no longer allow “loitering.” Even if they’d purchased a coffee and a snack. Rivian, of all companies, decided to create its own space for remote workers in San Francisco, California.

What once was an auto repair shop in the 1920s is now a showroom for Rivian’s products. You can read a selection of books on the shelf, admire the R1T and R1S while you write your articles, enter your data, code, or write your novel.

RJ Scaringe, the company’s CEO, wrote that people “come in with a laptop, and you work for three hours,” when the space opened in January. You can hop into the driver’s seat of either the SUV or the pickup, but there aren’t salesmen trying to get you to buy one.

This was Scaringe’s goal, according to the San Francisco Standard, to create a friendly workspace, not like “[people] are in a high-pressure sales situation.”

Two reporters worked from the Rivian workspace to test that

Jillian D’Onfro and Zara Stone traveled to the workspace to see if Scaringe would put his money where his mouth is. They were able to sit on the stool of the R1T without anyone harassing them.

They noted, though, that someone approached them when they sat in the back of the R1S and started working. Otherwise, there was no pressure from staff to test drive or finance a Rivian. If they wanted to, though, that would be an option.

Seanan Fong, who regularly works at the Rivian storefront, says he hopes other people don’t find out about it.

“It’s pretty chill and quiet,” he said. “I don’t want too many people to know about it… I hope there’s enough people and community goodwill so that they keep it open — but not so many people that it gets crowded.”

Justice Sumser noted it was a great alternative that working at another popular EV seller’s storefront. It was an “expensive, elitist store.”

“We’d definitely be Rivian people before we’d be Tesla,” she said.