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Dyson to launch new electric car by 2020 following £2billion investment by vacuum(T)
thesun.co.uk ^ | 9/26/2017 | Joe Finnerty

Posted on 09/27/2017 7:43:34 AM PDT by rktman

The all-new model is being developed by 400 staff at its HQ in Malmesbury, Wiltshire.

Further work will take place at a nearby former RAF base with staff moving in next February.

A factory has yet to be chosen but the battery-powered car will be on sale after 2020.

Company founder Sir James Dyson told staff in an e-mail: "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."

Dyson has had an ambition to develop an electric car since 1998 but was rejected by the industry.

Sir James also pursued car makers to fit cyclone exhausts to cut emissions in the 90s but was met with resistance.

(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: eleccars; thatsucks
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To: rktman

Electric cars would have made escape from Florida and Houston ten times more difficult. They are great when you really have no place to go as in Eurostan.


21 posted on 09/27/2017 8:39:01 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: rktman

Dyson should drop that uninspired and dead-end idea and start working on the SPHERE! /s (}:-)


22 posted on 09/27/2017 8:42:55 AM PDT by left that other site
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To: rktman

The important fact here is a 25,000 rpm motor that is small and lightweight.

Battery technology is nearly universally distributed in the industry.


23 posted on 09/27/2017 8:57:46 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Starboard

The car will have air vents in front and a oval shape vent on top of the roof shooting air behind it to boost mpg.... :)


24 posted on 09/27/2017 9:00:54 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: rktman

Will it have a built in vacuum cleaner, like the Honda minivan?


25 posted on 09/27/2017 9:24:04 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: rktman

It comes with a ‘street sweeper’ option. Cleans your streets while you’re driving...


26 posted on 09/27/2017 9:30:13 AM PDT by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
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To: ConservaTeen

I know what you’re doing there. ;-)


27 posted on 09/27/2017 9:32:00 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Balding_Eagle

We bought a Kirby. Better auction that the Dyson we used to have, and Made In America.


28 posted on 09/27/2017 9:34:37 AM PDT by hoagy62 ("It's not the whole world gone Imad. Just the people in it." Oh start)
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To: hoagy62

Auction= suction

Damned autocorrect.


29 posted on 09/27/2017 9:35:50 AM PDT by hoagy62 ("It's not the whole world gone Imad. Just the people in it." Oh start)
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To: hoagy62

I’m hardly an expert on vacuums, but the model we bought, which was designed specifically to pick up pet hair and fur etc, does an excellent job.


30 posted on 09/27/2017 9:57:17 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: rktman

“where ya gonna dump that battery bud?”

Really. Also, where does the other end of that battery charge cable go? Oh, a fossil fuel powered electricity generating plant? Oh, ok. IMO hydrogen is the way.


31 posted on 09/27/2017 10:00:02 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: V_TWIN

Yes except they make hydrogen by electrolysis.


32 posted on 09/27/2017 10:28:40 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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