{"id":926,"date":"2020-05-20T15:58:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T20:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evglobe.com\/?p=926"},"modified":"2020-05-20T15:58:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T20:58:21","slug":"james-dyson-electric-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evglobe.com\/2020\/05\/20\/james-dyson-electric-car\/","title":{"rendered":"James Dyson: Here is what my electric car would have looked like"},"content":{"rendered":"

The wealthiest man in all England reveals for the first time what the electric car that should have competed with Tesla would have looked like. Sadly, that dream is now fallen to pieces. Sir James Dyson explained why in an exclusive interview with the Sunday Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“This is the first one that ran. I drove it secretly in a screened-off compound we have here.” Sir James Dyson told the Sunday Times exclusively as he unveiled for the first time the electric car that was supposed to compete with the American-built Tesla.<\/p>\n

The British inventor, and currently the wealthiest man in Britain, had a dream: To build an efficient high-end electric car, possibly better than the Tesla.<\/p>\n

That dream broke down last October with the announcement of the definitive abandonment of the project, after having invested \u00a3500 million (\u20ac580 million, $650 million). The car, however, exists. Sure, there is only a single working prototype, but that\u2019s enough for now. Its “code” name is N526, but for everyone it simply was the “Dyson car.”<\/p>\n

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It is the first time that Sir Dyson displays his creation in public, at the research center in Wiltshire. It is a large 7-seater electric SUV with an autonomy of over 900 kilometers (560 miles). Dyson published for the first time the image of the only marching prototype, the car that was supposed to compete with Elon Musk’s Tesla.<\/p>\n

In 2017, when Dyson provided the first details of the project through an email sent to employees. 400 specialists started to work on the electric car project at the company\u2019s headquarters in Malmesbury, in South-West England. Almost every technician came from the Chinese company Techrules, specialized in turbine battery charging, and from the Californian Faraday, engaged for years in self-driving electric mobility.<\/p>\n

In fact, Dyson’s car would most likely have been built in China or Singapore.<\/p>\n

“There\u2019s huge sadness and disappointment. Ours is a life of risk and failure. We try things and they fail. Life isn’t easy”<\/p>\n

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