The ability to grow and add on is a deciding factor in choosing locations. Proximity to the city centre, or your main customer, for example, is one of the considerations. The word micro doesn't mean small capacity. It means small footprint. Capacity simply comes by just adding more and more. And what's great about it is they can all come on in parallel - even if you put two micre factories next to each other.
Arrival is a fascinating company on the brink of putting its bold vision of "microfactory"-made vans, busses and ridehailing vehicles into production. President Avinash Rugoobur joins the show to explain how its 10,000 unit/year microfactories upend the established rules of automaking, how the products enable these dramatic changes and where the whole thing is headed.