Arrival produces first production verification van in Bicester microfactory
Commercial EV start-up Arrival has announced that it has produced the first production verification vehicle from its Bicester microfactory.
Arrival produced the first Van in a microfactory using in-house technologies, including composite materials, autonomous mobile robots, in-house components and a software defined factory.
The firm says the milestone is a big stepping stone towards at-scale production and delivering vehicles to its customers.
“Today is an important day for Arrival. This is the first time a vehicle has ever been built in our microfactory, using a new method that does not use a traditional assembly line," said Denis Sverdlov, Founder and CEO at Arrival.
Although we have not yet achieved serial production, we are focused on making it happen. We will continue to produce vehicles in our microfactory in order to master at-scale production.
“It has been more difficult than we had initially imagined, and I thank the team for the immense amount of effort, technology, innovative breakthroughs, and problem solving.”
The Arrival Vans produced this year will be used for continued testing, validation and quality control, rather than being sold to customers.
In February this year the firm started trials of its electric passenger bus.
