A Vacuum Cleaner Manufacturer Wants To Make An Electric Car By 2020
Last week, we brought you the curious news about a petrol chemical giant ambitiously wanting to build a Land Rover Defender replacement. Now, we have a vacuum cleaner manufacturer plotting to make an electric car. To be launched in 2020. Wait, what?
Proving a multitude of long-running rumours to be correct, Dyson founder and chief engineer James Dyson announced that the company has already started work on a “battery electric vehicle.” Details are still thin on the ground, but - after hitting out at “governments around the world” for pushing diesel-powered vehicles - Dyson did reveal a few interesting nuggets of information.
Most importantly, money: Dyson is investing £2 billion into the project. Then we have personnel to think about: there’s already a team of 400 in place which “combines top Dyson engineers with talented individuals from the automotive industry,” and the company is “recruiting aggressively.”
They’re not mucking about, in other words. Could we see Tesla levels of disruption from the project? We’ll have to wait and see. Right now, we’re just glad we avoided any vacuum cleaner-related puns in this article. That would have sucked.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Basically Gran Turismo will become realistic sounding for once if this car makes it into the game 🌚🌚
Well we already have a lawn mower manefacturer car so
Vtak yoooo
Soon people are gonna joke about their cars saying it sounds like a
vacuum cleaner.
Tesla:
We make spaceships, hyperloop trains and electric cars
Dyson:
We make vacuum cleaners, hairdryers and electric cars
Wrong. The only thing Tesla has in common with spaceships is its CEO. Tesla only makes electric cars, not rockets. Making rockets and launching them in space is SpaceX’s job. As for the Hyperloop, it’s not linked by any way with Tesla and SpaceX other than by the CEO. These three things have nothing in common.
Daewoo: we make microwaves, fridges and cars
I get the feeling that this car is really going to ‘suck’…
I swear to God if those puns continue I’m going to create the Anti Pun Police
They should also make turbos, especially for the Pagani Huayra
At least it would sound accurate on Gran Tourismo.
Ford spent £6bn developing the Mondeo in 1995… And Dyson wants to not only develop the drive train, but a new type of battery for the car as well as a chassis from scratch on a third of that, 20 years later??
No…I’m sure it’ll be good.
To be fair Dyson is a bloody genius
This first car that will suck and people will buy
No, that’s the Nissan Juke your talking about!!!
You’d think a gas turbine engine would be a bit more in their wheelhouse