OK, let's step back a bit.
Not back as far as the very early 1900s when horse-drawn vacuum cleaners were "the thing" - but just as far as 2008 when Dyson - the vacuum cleaner and fan and blade hand-dryer company started by the chap in the second photo, James Dyson, denied that they were designing an electric car.
Fair enough.
But that was nine years ago and they didn't rule out working on battery tech for an electric car.
Anyway, skip back to May last year when Car Magazine told us that "Tech firm Dyson is secretly working on an electric car."
Oooh!
In fact, that's where I got that picture from.
Good, isn't it?
Anyway, skip forward to today, and Autocar announce that Dyson have now lured a THIRD important player from the car industry into their fold. They announce that following on from Aston Martin product development director Ian Minards and Tesla communications executive Ricardo Reyes they have now got David Wyer, director of purchasing at Aston Martin.
This is the only photo they have of him:
I assume he's driving it.
Both Car Magazine and Autocar report that last year that an official government document read: “The Government is funding Dyson to develop a new battery electric vehicle at their headquarters in Malmesbury, Wiltshire. This will secure £174 million of investment in the area, creating over 500 jobs, mostly in engineering”. And they both report that this document was quickly altered to say “The Government is providing a grant of up to £16m to Dyson to support research and development for battery technology at their site in Malmesbury.”
Well I for one, reckon that Dyson ARE working on an electric car - especially when I saw this:
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