Arrival (automobile manufacturer)

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Arrival Ltd
legal form Ltd
founding 2015
Seat London , UK
management Denis Sverdlow CEO
Number of employees 800 (as of early 2020)
Branch Automotive industry
Website arrival.com

Arrival Ltd is an English manufacturer of all-electric vans and light trucks . The company was founded in 2015 by Denis Sverdlow and has developed successfully since then.

Denis Sverdlov

The founder, Denis Sverdlow (* 1978), studied engineering and business administration at the State University in Saint Petersburg . After various professional positions, he became CEO of the Yota Group, a Russian Internet service provider , in 2007 . In 2012 he was appointed Russian Vice Minister for Communication and Mass Media. In 2014 he went to England and founded Arrival. He is also the founder of RoboRace , a company that develops driverless racing vehicles. In this context, he is planning a worldwide racing series with autonomous racing cars as well as a man-machine racing competition.

Company development and product range

The company's headquarters are in London. Research and development and manufacturing are located in Banbury , Oxfordshire . The company employs around 800 people (as of January 2020).

Arrival develops and manufactures fully electric powered vans. The aim is to reduce the costs of the vehicles so that they are no more expensive than comparable vehicles with diesel engines. Arrival is critical of the constructive approach of most manufacturers of electrically powered vehicles. You would essentially only replace the drive, otherwise the vehicle is largely unchanged. Arrival calls this approach "Generation 1.0" and its own, which includes a complete and modular new design, "Generation 2.0". It is also claimed that the service life of Arrival vehicles is around 20 years.

The English postal company Royal Mail first used a small series of Arrival test vehicles in 2017. In May 2019, the courier service UPS took over 35 vehicles for a test deployment in London and Paris.

In mid-January 2020, Arrival announced that Hyundai Motor Group had invested € 100 million in the company and that the two companies had agreed a strategic partnership to jointly develop electrically powered vehicles on the Arrival platform. The future vehicles will be manufactured in comparatively small factories with a production area of ​​10,000 square meters. This achieves market proximity and flexibility. The vehicle platform, which can be compared to a skateboard , and the software are provided by Arrival. Arrival also announced that the company has achieved unicorn status as a result of the investment . That said, the company's value is already over $ 1 billion.

Two weeks later, Arrival announced that UPS had also acquired a stake in the company and had placed an order with Arrival for 10,000 pick-ups valued at £ 340 million (approx. € 400 million). The vehicles to be delivered by 2024 will be based on a joint development by UPS and Arrival. They will be used in Europe and North America.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arrival Limited website . Accessed January 31, 2020.
  2. ↑ Mr Denis Sverdlov . IGF Internet Governance Forum. Accessed January 31, 2020.
  3. ↑ Timo Pape: CEO Sverdlov: First Roborace only "within the next 2 years" . e-formel.de. April 20, 2017. Retrieved February 1, 2020.
  4. ↑ a b Mark Jones: Arrival is the tech company that's decided to make electric vans . TechHQ. October 20, 2019. Accessed January 14, 2020.
  5. ↑ Royal Mail's new electric vans unveiled ( en ) BBC. August 23, 2017. Accessed February 2, 2020.
  6. ↑ Fred Lambert: UPS to deploy a fleet of new neat-looking custom-built all-electric delivery trucks ( en ) electrek. May 9, 2018. Retrieved February 2, 2020.
  7. ↑ Imogen Pierce: UK Electric Vehicle Unicorn Arrival Receives € 100M Investment from Hyundai and Kia ( en ) Arrival. January 16, 2020. Accessed February 3, 2020.
  8. ^ Alan Tovey and Matthew Field: British electric van company Arrival claims 'unicorn' status as Hyundai and Kia invest ( en ) The Telegraph. January 16, 2020. Accessed February 3, 2020.
  9. ↑ Jasper Jolly: UK electric van maker Arrival secures £ 340m order from UPS ( en ) The Guardian. January 29, 2020. Accessed February 3, 2020.
  10. ↑ Felix Page: UPS orders 10,000 electric vans from British start-up Arrival ( en ) Autocar. January 29, 2020. Accessed February 3, 2020.

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