CNet:
British tech company Dyson announced on Tuesday its plans to build an electric vehicle manufacturing plant in Singapore, as part of its plans to expand into automotive.
The company is best known for making vacuum cleaners, hand dryers and hairdryers, but in 2017 it revealed it had starting working on an electric vehicle. In August of this year it announced the opening of an electric car test center at one of its existing sites in the UK. The factory where the cars will be built in Singapore is due to be completed in 2020, keeping the company on track for its scheduled 2021 automotive launch.
"Dyson's growing automotive team is making excellent progress from the state-of-the-art hangars at Hullavington Airfield in Wiltshire where we are investing £200m," said Dyson CEO Jim Rowan in a letter to employees. "Clearly we now need to move quickly towards manufacturing and assembly."
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Dyson had planned to invest more than £2bn in developing a "radical and different" electric vehicle, a project it launched in 2016. It said the car would not be aimed at the mass market. Half of the funds would go towards building the car, half towards developing electric batteries.
In October 2018 Dyson revealed plans to build the car at a new plant in Singapore. It was expected to be completed next year, with the first vehicles due to roll off the production line in 2021.
[...] Dyson has concluded it simply can't afford to play with the big boys - although its efforts to make a quantum leap in battery technology will continue. [...] Sir James said Dyson would continue to work on the battery technology, which was used in the car. "Our battery will benefit Dyson in a profound way and take us in exciting new directions."
Previously: Dyson Developing Electric Cars... With UK Government Money
Dyson Will Build Electric Cars in Singapore for a 2021 Launch
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @06:35PM (4 children)
I feel that news doesn't really exist anymore; it seems like most stories these days are not about what has happened, but rather what someone hopes will happen.
Who cares!
Let me know when Dyson is mass producing a good electric car that I can buy right now.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by archfeld on Wednesday October 24 2018, @07:10PM
I'd even settle for notification when they were testing or building a 'bad' electric car, or even parts for other electric car manufacturers.
For the NSA : Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charge
(Score: 3, Insightful) by ikanreed on Wednesday October 24 2018, @07:38PM (1 child)
Maybe you just weren't aware of the press-release to "news story" pipeline 10, 20, or 30 years ago. There have been lazy reporters and marketers eager to exploit them for a long time.
It's not new to pull this crap.
(Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Wednesday October 24 2018, @09:43PM
Yeah, there's a couple of search pages full of nearly identical articles within 24 hours. I can't find the actual press release though, but there's no question there's something like that out there they are all drawn from.
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Interestingly an article from about 2.5 years ago has more information (if you don't care about them now knowing the location and some costs particularly) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3508271/Dyson-working-electric-car-Government-files-reveal-firm-s-plans-battery-powered-vehicle-reference-deleted.html [dailymail.co.uk]
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(Score: 2) by Rivenaleem on Thursday October 25 2018, @12:21PM
Yeah, until we actually start seeing their cars, this is all just a load of hot air.
(Score: 4, Funny) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Wednesday October 24 2018, @08:06PM
And it can do Ludicrous speed!
This sig for rent.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by bob_super on Wednesday October 24 2018, @08:41PM
All the electric car industry needed was yet another guy with a reputation of making his employees' lives hell !
(Score: 2) by Snow on Wednesday October 24 2018, @08:49PM
I thought they were a marketing company....
(Score: 3, Interesting) by turgid on Wednesday October 24 2018, @09:46PM (2 children)
Dyson is a great Brexit proponent, a real British patriot.
When Nissan leaves Sunderland and Toyota leaves Swindon, and when banana republic inflation devalues Sterling, that patriotic genius Dyson will be able to relocate manufacturing to England.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 4, Funny) by Nuke on Wednesday October 24 2018, @11:00PM
Good. I'd rather make cars than have a job showing bloody tourists around.
(Score: 4, Touché) by isostatic on Thursday October 25 2018, @06:38AM
No he won’t. Singapore and the EU have a good trade agreement which means it’s easier and cheaper for the EU to import cars from singapore than from the uk.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @10:06PM (1 child)
Don't know the answer yet, but they are likely to be appliances.
Maybe they will be like the Renault Appliance[sic] we used to get here in the US, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Alliance [wikipedia.org] ?
(Score: 2) by Nuke on Wednesday October 24 2018, @11:06PM
No. Cars made to the Dyson style will look like made from giant Lego bricks, and will have decorative techno-baubles sticking out all over them. Oh, and a transparent boot/trunk so people can see the crap inside.
(Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Thursday October 25 2018, @01:39AM (2 children)
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-chrome-futuristic-design-bubble-car-at-schlumpfs-motor-museum-mulhouse-27744153.htm [alamy.com]
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(Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Thursday October 25 2018, @01:43AM (1 child)
If only i could delete a comment within a couple of minutes...
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-chrome-futuristic-design-bubble-car-at-schlumpfs-motor-museum-mulhouse-27744153.html [alamy.com]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 25 2018, @02:09AM
Cool! At this link is another photo and more detail,
http://porscheautoworld.com/city-of-cars-is-this-the-worlds-best-auto-museum/ [porscheautoworld.com]
Just what I could imagine from Dyson.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 25 2018, @05:29AM (1 child)
Hehehe, in the limey land, vacuum makers are a "tech company".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 25 2018, @08:26AM
*vacuum sex toy maker
(Score: 2) by datapharmer on Thursday October 25 2018, @11:24AM
As expected they will be made of plastic, cost $1 million, won't fit through tunnels or under bridges, will only go 3/8 as far as they claim, their motors will fail after 3 months, the skid plates will fall off and pieces will come loose every time they are bumped and everyone will suggest you get the much better version made by Tata... or maybe it won't be like their vacuums. https://www.consumeraffairs.com/homeowners/dyson.html [consumeraffairs.com]