tesla British technology company, Dyson making an electric car

[Lee_Ward18]

Hi, I know this may have been in the news already but what does everyone else think of the British company, Dyson making an electric car and how they may compete against Tesla.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/14/17013694/dyson-electric-car-lineup

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/14/17013694/dyson-electric-car-lineup

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/26/james-dyson-electric-car-2020

 

 

 

 

 

[Sir Asvald]

Please read the guidelines..

 

 

[ItsMitch]

3 minutes ago, Lee_Ward18 said:

how they may compete against Tesla

good luck, they'll fucking need it

[Oshino Shinobu]

Hoover is a company BTW. Dyson (and Hoover) make vacuum cleaners. 

[Guest savagepain]

i guess my car can clean my drive way now  

[Bananasplit_00]

Sure, they make electric engines and know their battery stuff so sure. Will be interesting if they just come in purple, silver and transparent lol

[mynameisjuan]

Dyson while overpriced do have very good electric motors. Makes sense that they would get in the game. 

[Radium_Angel]

Naaa, not excited. I just know it's going to suck.

 

(I'll show myself out)

[Enderman]

Will probably look like #5

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

I wonder if Linus will do a set tour in it

[Taf the Ghost]

Welp, Electric Cars have jumped the shark.

[Ryujin2003]

... Nobody said it.. so...

 

 

This car is going to suck...

 

**Drum roll please**

[Evanair]

2 hours ago, Ryujin2003 said:

... Nobody said it.. so...

 

 

This car is going to suck...

 

**Drum roll please**

I was scrolling through hoping I was gunna be the first one to say it too.

[Guest]

Hopefully it doesn't suck as much as their vacuum cleaners.

[mrchow19910319]

"UK hooker company .."

 

 

wait what? ?????????

 

[Jtalk4456]

3 hours ago, Ryujin2003 said:

... Nobody said it.. so...

 

 

This car is going to suck...

 

**Drum roll please**

@Radium_Angel said it first, sorry

[Techstorm970]

I don't expect much out of the same company that released the infamous $700 Succ Machine.

[Spotty]

Quote

U.K hoover company Dyson

Reports are that Microsoft company Apple will be supplying the software.

[D13H4RD]

I hope it cleans the streets too......literally

[Ryujin2003]

3 hours ago, Jtalk4456 said:

@Radium_Angel said it first, sorry

Gah, I didn't and triple checked, and still missed it... Man... I pulled a Dyson..

[mr moose]

Is this who that disgruntled employee sold all the data too?

[Radium_Angel]

Ok, so all the jokes have played themselves out, time for a serious question:

 

Tesla was not the 1st electric car company, but the most flamboyant, so they've grabbed the headlines. Telsa discussion comes in one of two forms: Raving fanboys who can't/won't find a single fault with Elon or Tesla, and haters who can't find the good in the company. 

So we're going to set them aside for the moment and ask you this question...

 

Where does the future of electric cars lay?

Short city-runabouts, long distance drivers, or forever-niche vehicles?

We all currently understand one of the keys to mass adoption is the ability to easily recharge the car on a trip, much as you would with a gas station, but given manufacturer's unwillingness to standardize on a set power interface (for whatever reason, justified or not) this is certainly going to slow down the rollout.

 

On a personal note, I've driven several electric vehicles and the insistence of the car maker "to be different" (as Apple would put it) turns me right the fuck off. All the controls are different (like the 1 foot driving in the BMW i3...man is that weird), layouts go from irritating (BMW i3) to a downright dealbreaker (I'm looking at you Tesla) and I'm genuinely puzzled by this, do the car makers want to be different just for the sake of different (look at me! I'm different!) or is there some underlying reason I"m missing that the car can't be like any other car?

 

Dittot goes for styling. I know it's subjective but I have yet to see a good looking electric car. They go from unusual (BMW i3 again) to very unfortunate (Nissan Leaf), whatever happened to good looks here? 

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[PineyCreek]

I think it'll be overpriced, of relatively good quality, and won't need gas because it will run off the concentrated smug seeping off their owners.

[Jtalk4456]

2 hours ago, Radium_Angel said:

Ok, so all the jokes have played themselves out, time for a serious question:

 

Tesla was not the 1st electric car company, but the most flamboyant, so they've grabbed the headlines. Telsa discussion comes in one of two forms: Raving fanboys who can't/won't find a single fault with Elon or Tesla, and haters who can't find the good in the company. 

So we're going to set them aside for the moment and ask you this question...

 

Where does the future of electric cars lay?

Short city-runabouts, long distance drivers, or forever-niche vehicles?

We all currently understand one of the keys to mass adoption is the ability to easily recharge the car on a trip, much as you would with a gas station, but given manufacturer's unwillingness to standardize on a set power interface (for whatever reason, justified or not) this is certainly going to slow down the rollout.

 

On a personal note, I've driven several electric vehicles and the insistence of the car maker "to be different" (as Apple would put it) turns me right the fuck off. All the controls are different (like the 1 foot driving in the BMW i3...man is that weird), layouts go from irritating (BMW i3) to a downright dealbreaker (I'm looking at you Tesla) and I'm genuinely puzzled by this, do the car makers want to be different just for the sake of different (look at me! I'm different!) or is there some underlying reason I"m missing that the car can't be like any other car?

 

Dittot goes for styling. I know it's subjective but I have yet to see a good looking electric car. They go from unusual (BMW i3 again) to very unfortunate (Nissan Leaf), whatever happened to good looks here? 

So on the remark of being different for the sake of being different, this is definitely a problem, though when you refer to tesla specifically, I think you're missing something. The leaf and prius and other electric cars are just normal cars but with electric motor. So they felt they had to make it stand out to be worth the extra money. Tesla on the other hand is not just focusing on the car. They are seeing the larger picture, a systematic change. I assume your gripe with the new tesla is the tablet controls. Using like a normal car, I can certainly agree this doesn't work well. But in the case of autonomous driving it makes sense. Musk realizes we are heading to fully autonomous and is getting ready early. Does it fit our current driving style, not really. In a way Tesla is like Apple. He does something we're not ready for yet (headphone jack) knowing we'll eventually all be using autonomous driving (bluetooth headphones). And the industry see's him innovating and no matter how slowly, they will follow suit. And the more of these future proof cars are on the road, the more incentive there will be to start building the infrastructure that will make this all work