Arrival is an electric commercial vehicle start-up that seems to have come out of nowhere but earlier this year, Hyundai-Kia and UPS both announced major investments in the company. Hyundai-Kia has invested €100m ($117m) to jointly develop vehicles using Arrival’s platform. UPS has ordered “hundreds of millions of euros worth of bespoke purpose electric vehicles” from the company. It must be doing something right, then, not least its concept of fully automated ‘microfactories’ with local supply chains, which the company thinks will prove very resilient during crises such as Covid-19.