Toby Sutton-Pratt, head of composites at UK electric van and bus maker Arrival’s low-cost ‘microfactory’ shows the startup’s in-house developed moulding machines, in Bicester, Britain. — Reuters
BICESTER, England: Electric car and van startups racing to become the next Tesla Inc all want to avoid Elon Musk’s journey through “manufacturing hell”.
But electric vehicle firms such as UK van company Arrival SA and Fisker Inc are taking very different roads to overcome the challenges of profitable mass production that almost broke Tesla.
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Toby Sutton-Pratt, head of composites at UK electric van and bus maker Arrival’s low-cost ‘microfactory’ shows the startup’s in-house developed moulding machines, in Bicester, Britain. — Reuters
Abelson shows a production robot at the startup’s low-cost ‘microfactory’ in Bicester, Britain. — Reuters
Abelson shows the production line robots at the startup’s low-cost ‘microfactory’ in Bicester, Britain. — Reuters
Artem Vaydner, head of controls and automation integration at UK electric van and bus maker Arrival, runs tests on production line robots at the startup's low-cost ‘microfactory’ in Bicester, Britain. — Reuters
Engineers at UK electric van and bus maker Arrival test a specially developed autonomous robot at the startup's low-cost ‘microfactory’ in Bicester, Britain. — Reuters
An engineer at UK electric van and bus maker Arrival inspects a production robot at the startup's low-cost ‘microfactory’ in Bicester, Britain. — Reuters
An engineer at UK electric van and bus maker Arrival inspects a production robot at the startup's low-cost ‘microfactory’ in Bicester, Britain. — Reuters
An engineer at UK electric van and bus maker Arrival inspects a specially developed autonomous robot at the startup's low-cost ‘microfactory’ in Bicester, Britain. — Reuters
An engineer at UK electric van and bus maker Arrival runs tests on production line robots at the startup's low-cost ‘microfactory’ in Bicester, Britain. — Reuters
Toby Sutton-Pratt, head of composites at electric van and bus maker Arrival's low-cost UK ‘microfactory’, stands next to production line robots waiting to be put into service in Bicester, Britain. — Reuters
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