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Arrival Van is not; yet another electric van dedicated to transport and designed, for example, to facilitate couriers in accessing increasingly more urban areas; elite in terms of permits related to local pollution.

Materials, platform, components : everything & egrave; modular and designed to simplify production and maintenance: the micro-factories are defined by Arrival themselves as a product and within the English tech company there are the divisions dedicated to materials, software, autonomous driving and so on .

CIRCULAR AND INNOVATIVE APPROACH

a new project, created from scratch by an English startup that officially set foot in Italy with the presentation event in Milan. Creating a van from scratch also means rewriting the rules to which the automotive tradition had accustomed us : an example? The panels that make it up and protect the load are made of composite material because Arrival thought of them as easily replaceable and recyclable.

Let's break away from the concept of passenger cars and think like a fleet manager , the figure who manages the fleet of company vehicles and who must optimize their costs. What matters is having a reliable vehicle, able to reduce downtime for maintenance and which, possibly, costs us little when we are forced to repair one of its components.



The front panel, finally, allows access from a single point to all the management part of the (few) liquids necessary for the operation of the vehicle.

MODULAR TECHNIQUE

Three heights : 2.7 meters for those who need walk inside the load compartment, 2.4 meters for the intermediate version and less than two meters for those who need to access areas with height restrictions. The length goes up to 5.8 meters and Arrival has promised that every variant in its range will have; more space of any commercial thermal vehicle of the same category.


With the input model, in fact, despite having a larger battery compared to many competitors (67 kWh), Arrival maintains the capacity; load of 1 ton as the equivalent thermal versions.

COCKPIT: TESLA INSPIRATION AND NFC KEY 15.6 '' screen in the center of the dashboard and leaves the part behind the steering wheel free: everything finds its place in the display which has clean graphics that cannot; do not remember that of Elon Musk's electric and will serve; to manage also the part dedicated to productivity; since we are talking about a system open to third-party apps.

The key & egrave; digital via NFC technology with a keyfob (or a programmable accessory) or via the smartphone .

For security there are also ADAS revolving around a hardware suite with two radars (front and rear), five cameras and 360 degree ultrasonic sensors: automatic emergency braking, lane keeping, adaptive cruise control, blind spot monitoring and, where provided, a integrated dashcam that serves for safety and insurance functions.


Arrival also has autonomous driving in its sights and recently completed the first tests with the & quot; robopilot & quot ;, a driverless model that operated within a fleet for a logistics center on roads not accessible to the public.

The combination of minimalist interior and ADAS suite & egrave; designed to maximize driving safety and the platform, with a very low dashboard line that improves visibility; and a considerable reduction in overhangs given the absence of the engine hood, help to position the driver in a position that dominates both the road and the vehicle.

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