How it started
History
The company was founded in 2015 by Russian businessman and telecom billionaire Denis Sverdlov, former deputy minister of Mass Communications to the Kremlin. He previously served as general director of Russian mobile service provider Yota Group.
A global company headquartered in Kensington, London and Charlotte, North Carolina, US, Arrival had an R&D facility in Banbury and offices in North America, Germany, Israel, Russia and the Netherlands. Following its public listing on Nasdaq in 2021, Sverdlov was the firm's majority owner for 76% of its shares.
In August 2017, Royal Mail announced an agreement with Arrival to trial nine vehicles in the ranges of 3.5, 6 and 7 tonnes GVW. In May 2019, UPS announced a deal with Arrival to trial 35 vehicles across London and Paris as part of a wider strategy to electrify their massive fleet of delivery vehicles.
In October 2019, BlackBerry announced that it would power Arrival's Generation 2.0 intelligent electric vehicles. As part of the deal, it would license its BlackBerry QNX technology to Arrival, including its QNX SDP 7.0 real-time operating system, to serve as the secure foundation for ADAS features within the company's vehicle platform.
In December 2019, Cubic Telecom, a connectivity management software provider, partnered with Arrival to deliver intelligent connectivity software to their electric vehicle fleets. Two months earlier, former General Motors VP of EV Infrastructure and Global Strategy Mike Ableson joined the company as its CEO of Automotive North America.
From Wikipedia’s article on Arrival, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2