[Rumor] Dyson Developing Electric Car

[g1ngernator]

PCMag Article: http://uk.pcmag.com/cars-products/76331/news/rumor-dyson-developing-electric-car

 

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Dyson, best known for making vacuum cleaners, will reportedly receive funding from the British government to develop an electric car.

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the company has branched out beyond vacuum cleaners in the past. 

 If their vacuums are anything to go by then an electric car made by them should be pretty good, and expensive.

[TechFnatic]

I feel like they would've had to have done this 5-8 years ago so that people would actually buy them. Who is going to go out and buy an electric vehicle from a company that makes vacuums when we got Tesla and others out there who dominate the market. Only thing that can help them is their pricing, but even Tesla has a middle class vehicle which is relatively cheap 

[SansVarnic]

Dyson Vacuums, Suck

Dyson Fans, Blow

Dyson Cars, Glide

 

[Ok that was stupid.]

 

Well at least we all know it will be well overpriced for being branded a Dyson. 

Dyson's are the Apple of Vacuums. 

[atrash]

The more players in this electric car scene, the better it would turn out for the consumers in the long run. Dyson's electric motor engineering even on something as simple as hand dryer is pretty damn good. 

[Paranoid Kami]

They make some good vacuums. Hope they make good cars.

[Master Disaster]

Well at least vacuum cleaners use electric motors, unlike the Sinclair Spectrum.

[captain cactus]

"will reportedly receive funding from the British government to develop an electric car."

 

That's why Britain's government (or any government for that matter) is so shit at managing costs for technology related things. Of all the companies in the fucking world to choose from, you know, Tesla, GM, Volkswagen, you know the deal, they choose a flipping home appliances designer/manufacturer. Is it because they're British and the others aren't? I bet it is. And it's going to bite them in the ass very fast and very painfully. Hell, if you want to make it British, ask Aston Martin, or even better, Jaguar (since they don't just have brilliant looking sports cars but also sedans and SUVs 'n stuff). You know, the companies with actual experience in building cars.

 

Governments, particularly the UK's, are as technologically hopeless as a bunch of bricks, and that's an insult to the bricks.

[Sky Daddy]

In other news, Dyson creating something that doesn't suck.

[Mo_z_Art]

On 25. März 2016 at 8:50 PM, lots of unexplainable lag said:

"will reportedly receive funding from the British government to develop an electric car."

 

That's why Britain's government (or any government for that matter) is so shit at managing costs for technology related things. Of all the companies in the fucking world to choose from, you know, Tesla, GM, Volkswagen, you know the deal, they choose a flipping home appliances designer/manufacturer. Is it because they're British and the others aren't? I bet it is. And it's going to bite them in the ass very fast and very painfully. Hell, if you want to make it British, ask Aston Martin, or even better, Jaguar (since they don't just have brilliant looking sports cars but also sedans and SUVs 'n stuff). You know, the companies with actual experience in building cars.

 

Governments, particularly the UK's, are as technologically hopeless as a bunch of bricks, and that's an insult to the bricks.

Jaguar (and Land Rover) is owned by an Indian Company called Tata Motors. Aston Martin was partly bought by Italiens ,though the bigger share belongs to a british company. 

So the cars might be produced in Great Britain, but the people who own the companies have little to do with the country. Same goes for McLaren, I think one quarter belongs to an english company the rest foreign.