A Vacuum Cleaner Manufacturer Wants To Make An Electric Car By 2020

Last week, we brought you the curious news about a petrol chemical giant ambitiously wanting to build a Land Rover Defender replacement. Now, we have a vacuum cleaner manufacturer plotting to make an electric car. To be launched in 2020. Wait, what?

Proving a multitude of long-running rumours to be correct, Dyson founder and chief engineer James Dyson announced that the company has already started work on a “battery electric vehicle.” Details are still thin on the ground, but - after hitting out at “governments around the world” for pushing diesel-powered vehicles - Dyson did reveal a few interesting nuggets of information.

Most importantly, money: Dyson is investing £2 billion into the project. Then we have personnel to think about: there’s already a team of 400 in place which “combines top Dyson engineers with talented individuals from the automotive industry,” and the company is “recruiting aggressively.”

They’re not mucking about, in other words. Could we see Tesla levels of disruption from the project? We’ll have to wait and see. Right now, we’re just glad we avoided any vacuum cleaner-related puns in this article. That would have sucked.