Volume down, profits up: the radical new ways of mass-building cars | Autocar

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Why smaller is sometimes better: how new factories and techniques are shaking up car manufacturing

model has worked well, but we said ‘let’s question that; does it need to be one line?',” said Arrival presidentThe planned Arrival van factories are designed to make 10,000 a year, while bus factories are pegged at 2000. Its vehicles use plastic composites, pressed on site in the required colour. Rugoobur pointed out this removes the need for a stamping press or a paint shop – two big expenditures.

“We're literally trying to make full-size cars in the same way that toy cars are made,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted last year. Tesla says the process replaces “70-plus” parts each.

 

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