The British company Arrival provided for testing its future partner and the customer, the British bus operator FIRST Bus, the "The Arrival Bus" electric office. During testing, Arrival Electrics will run on existing FIRST BUS routes in the UK, starting in the fall of this year. The cooperation of the two companies began after FIRST Bus announced its commitment not to purchase more buses with diesel engines, starting from 2022, and by 2035, go to the use of exclusively transport with zero emissions.
Currently, part of the FIRST BUS fleet has already been translated into the use of more "clean" fuels. In particular, 99 bometan buses operate in Bristol. But, as you understand, it still does not eat transport with zero emissions. So replacing part of the diesel fleet on biomethane buses is just a transitional stage to completely non-emission transport. Also in Aberdeen there are several dubdecors with hydrogen engines. Given the Arrival strategy to create localized industries in the form of a Microfactory network, Denis Sverdlova has become the most preferred partner for the British public transport operator.
A single-storey electric office Arrival is equipped with an energy storage capacity with a capacity of about 310.8 kW * h, and can be charged both alternating and direct current. Compared to Odnoklassniki, it is 40% more easily due to the modular technology and materials used. This gives big energy efficiency at the exit.
Janett Bell, Managing Director of FIRST BUS said: "As leaders in the field of sustainable mobility, we are pleased to announce our partnership with Arrival, helping us to bring to the UK's streets among the most innovative buses with a zero level of emissions for our customers and partners. We are proud to be the first operator in the UK, who tested the electric buses Arrival, and we hope to work together to speed up the transition to zero emissions in our sector. It is expected that their innovative technology will also improve customer service, and we look forward to how customers will respond to new buses when testing in the second half of this year will begin. "
Arrival implements a completely new approach to the design and assembly of electric vehicles. Low capital costs, quickly scalable microfabrics in combination with components, materials and software of their own development, allow the best cars in their class at competitive prices compared to the fossil fuel options, and with a significantly lower total value of ownership. Currently, the company has two headquarters, in London (United Kingdom) and Charlotte (USA). Also this year the first two microfactory will be launched, in South Carolina (USA), and in Bister (United Kingdom).
P.S.It's nice to observe how the arrival step is developing, growing, and finds new partners and customers. And of course the most important point in the history of the company's development will be the launch of serial production on new Microfactory.