Arrival, a U.K. startup focused on electric buses and delivery vans is to partner with Uber to create a passenger EV for RideShare fleets. “The Arrival Car is intended to be a relatively low-cost electric vehicle designed for ride-hail and car-share fleets, initially in the U.K. and European Union”, says Tom Elvidge, Arrival’s senior vice president of mobility. Ride sharing is where passengers share a car that is heading the same direction. They in turn save as they pay less than what a normal ride cost.
We should expect a prototype by end of year but production will begin late 2023 at one of the “micro factories”. Arrival is planning to do away with assembly lines and switching to automated micro-factories which they are planting.
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Production will start at a one micro-factory that London-based Arrival is setting up. Uber drivers will provide design feedback to refine the car’s packaging and features before the mass production starts. They plan to produce vehicles quicker, cheaper and with far fewer environmental costs.
“The partnership we have with (Uber) is to ensure that they get the very best product for what they need,” said Elvidge, a past general manager for Uber in the U.K. and Ireland.
Arrival was Founded by Russian billionaire entrepreneur Denis Sverdlov. is part of a wave of next-generation electric vehicle companies looking to broaden the market for non-polluting cars and trucks.
“Uber is committed to helping every driver in London upgrade to an EV by 2025, and thanks to our Clean Air Plan more than £135m has been raised to support this ambition,” Jamie Heywood, Uber’s regional general manager for Northern and Eastern Europe said in a statement. “Our focus is now on encouraging drivers to use this money to help them upgrade to an electric vehicle, and our partnership with Arrival will help us achieve this goal.”
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