{"id":5461,"date":"2022-04-23T15:36:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T13:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/23\/britains-tesla-hopes-for-big-things-from-microfactories\/"},"modified":"2022-04-23T15:36:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T13:36:06","slug":"britains-tesla-hopes-for-big-things-from-microfactories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/23\/britains-tesla-hopes-for-big-things-from-microfactories\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s Tesla hopes for big things from \u2018microfactories\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electric vehicle maker Arrival is gambling that small sites, a \u2018Lego-block\u2019 manufacturing system and lots of robots will bring it success<\/p>\n<p>The last year has been tricky for electric vehicle startups. After a burst of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2021\/apr\/17\/chinese-firms-prepare-to-charge-into-europes-electric-car-market\" title=\"\">investment mania<\/a> in which companies raised billions on the mere promise of battery propulsion, valuations have come back down to earth.<\/p>\n<p>One of the loudest thuds has come from Arrival, the closest to what could be called a British electric vehicle champion. Its market value on the Nasdaq has fallen from $15bn (\u00a311.6bn) in March 2021, when it first completed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2020\/nov\/18\/uk-electric-vehicle-maker-arrival-to-list-on-nasdaq-amid-surging-demand\" title=\"\">merger with a listed cash shell<\/a>, to about $1.75bn.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2022\/apr\/23\/britains-tesla-hopes-for-big-things-from-microfactories\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a87de2fe8b08336e63ead590ec84945c916d82fc\/0_270_8056_4833\/master\/8056.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9666a109091e1a5d3affddab5376e02b\" title=\"Britain\u2019s Tesla hopes for big things from \u2018microfactories\u2019\" \/>Electric vehicle maker Arrival is gambling that small sites, a \u2018Lego-block\u2019 manufacturing system and lots of robots will bring it success<br \/>\nThe last year has been tricky for electric vehicle startups. After a burst of investment mania in which companies raised billions on the mere promise of battery propulsion, valuations have come back down to earth.<br \/>\nOne of the loudest thuds has come from Arrival, the closest to what could be called a British electric vehicle champion. Its market value on the Nasdaq has fallen from $15bn (\u00a311.6bn) in March 2021, when it first completed a merger with a listed cash shell, to about $1.75bn. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric vehicle maker Arrival is gambling that small sites, a \u2018Lego-block\u2019 manufacturing system and lots of robots will bring it success The last year has been tricky for electric vehicle startups. After a burst of investment mania in which companies raised billions on the mere promise of battery propulsion, valuations have come back down to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/23\/britains-tesla-hopes-for-big-things-from-microfactories\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Britain\u2019s Tesla hopes for big things from \u2018microfactories\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5461"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}