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Last year, rumors about the British hand dryer and vacuum cleaner company entering the EV market started to surface. It sounded both plausible and a little ridiculous for Dyson to start building electric cars, but at the same time, it did make more sense than almost all the other startups that start from absolute scrap.
Dyson is a very respected name in its two main fields of activity with its products setting new standards and launching copycat versions from competitors. Anyone who's dried their hands in an Airport (at least in Europe) will know there's no better way to do it than with a Dyson Airblade. Plus you get to see the veins in your hand get squished under the powerful air current.
But making the jump to EVs would require a completely different type of expertise, not to mention substantial investments. Well, it looks like Sir James Dyson's company has that covered as the inventor and businessman just confirmed a 400-strong team of engineers has been working on the EV project for two years, with the total value of the project estimated at 2.5 billion Sterling Pounds (3.34 billion USD).
There is no car at the moment - no chassis, bo body, nothing. Or maybe that's what Sir Dyson wants us to believe since he appears to be quite big on secrecy: "Competition for new technology in the automotive industry is fierce and we must do everything we can to keep the specifics of our vehicle confidential," he wrote in an email to his employees, BBC reports.
The little he did say about the mysterious EV is that it would be "radical and different," but we wouldn't expect anything less from a company like Dyson. It also won't be cheap, which given how expensive the vacuum cleaners are, it was also a given.
The team working on the project is constantly expanding with names that have made a difference in the automotive world so far to take care of the things that don't involve electric motors and batteries. The car is said to be unveiled in 2020, but you too probably feel it's too early to take any of these dates that seriously.
But making the jump to EVs would require a completely different type of expertise, not to mention substantial investments. Well, it looks like Sir James Dyson's company has that covered as the inventor and businessman just confirmed a 400-strong team of engineers has been working on the EV project for two years, with the total value of the project estimated at 2.5 billion Sterling Pounds (3.34 billion USD).
There is no car at the moment - no chassis, bo body, nothing. Or maybe that's what Sir Dyson wants us to believe since he appears to be quite big on secrecy: "Competition for new technology in the automotive industry is fierce and we must do everything we can to keep the specifics of our vehicle confidential," he wrote in an email to his employees, BBC reports.
The little he did say about the mysterious EV is that it would be "radical and different," but we wouldn't expect anything less from a company like Dyson. It also won't be cheap, which given how expensive the vacuum cleaners are, it was also a given.
The team working on the project is constantly expanding with names that have made a difference in the automotive world so far to take care of the things that don't involve electric motors and batteries. The car is said to be unveiled in 2020, but you too probably feel it's too early to take any of these dates that seriously.
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