Arrival successfully completed all the required functional and safety testing to achieve EUWVTA, which is a critical step towards starting trials with customers in the coming months. The company is expected to start production of the van in Bicester, UK in Q3 2022.
“Our customers are tremendously excited about the Arrival van and the unique offering it provides them” said Denis Sverdlov, Founder and CEO at Arrival. “This version of the vehicle we started in 2020, so to have passed all certification tests in this short time frame is a truly monumental achievement by the whole team. We now look forward to starting production later this year and delivering vehicles to our customers, in order to help to make cleaner air for cities all over the world.”
Arrival’s zero-emission van has been designed to be an environmentally sustainable and economically efficient commercial electric vehicle. It features Arrival’s advanced in-house hardware and software technologies throughout the vehicle to provide operators with the data and tools they need to optimise the running of a fleet. The vehicle is made from Arrival’s lightweight composite materials, which are designed to be recyclable, durable and lower in cost. The Arrival van will be manufactured using Arrival’s new method of production - using Microfactories placed in cities all around the world. Microfactories are expected to have a lower Capex and cost of assembly, shorter commissioning time and be more environmentally friendly than traditional methods of production.
Arrival takes a modular and flexible approach to the design and production of its vehicles, which means the hardware and software is upgradable over a vehicle’s lifetime. The company will continually update and test its vehicles, in order to deliver the best possible product and experience for customers.
The rapid growth of e-commerce has led to an increase in demand for light commercial transport in cities, increasing both congestion and pollution. At the same time, there is an urgent need from cities, fleet operators and national governments to decarbonise operations in line with global public policy. At COP26, more than thirty countries, dozens of states and cities, agreed to work to guarantee that new cars and vans sold are zero-emission by 2035, and the EU passed this ruling last week.
With commercial vehicles covering higher mileage on a daily basis, they are one of the biggest contributors to air pollution in Europe, accounting for 13 percent of road transport carbon pollution. The Arrival van has been made to help accelerate the transition to electric vehicles, creating cleaner air for cities all over the world.
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