Currently reading: Poor leadership and over-complex factory blamed for Arrival collapse

Electric van start-up's UK operations are up for sale after 'challenging' conditions prevented it from launching product

An over-complex robot-based microfactory put into operation by “poor leadership” caused the collapse of British EV start-up Arrival, according to an Autocar source.

Arrival crashed into UK administration this week, having never delivered a customer van despite claiming 10,000s of orders and having burned through £1.5

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