Dyson Launches Electric Car

[Drive Blind]

hyphen said:

Built in vacuum FTW!

a dyson in your dyson ?

[Drive Blind]

partner with Nissan?

A Datsun Dyson

[SeeFive]

Had 3 dysons. Seem to work well right up until 5 minutes after the guarantee runs out, and then the carpet gets covered in lots of red hot metal fragments.

Are you sure it isn't based on an 80s TVR?

[67Dino]

I’m guessing it will have some good powerful ventilation if nothing else...

On a serious note, good luck to him I say. A British billionaire investing in a new high tech manufacturing business? Excellent.

[craigjm]

There is no reason why this couldn’t work and some of the jokes here show exactly why electric cars and the likes of Tesla caught the established carmakers napping and disrupted the industry. From building vacuum cleaners they will have lots of knowledge in electric motors and battery technology and from the likes of the air multiplier etc new ways of looking at how HVAC can work efficiently. Maybe it will some truely revolutionary stuff. There is no reason why the air blade hand dryer technology couldn’t be adapted to do away with inefficient wiper blades

[anonymous-user]

anonymous said:

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Quite. Can Dyson manage a team of engineers to develop a product, keep on top of the finance, setup a manufacturing facility and market the product? His CV would suggest he can. He doesn't even need to invent anything.

[Jonesy23]

On the other hand while he's made a lot of money a lot of the product (since before the vacuum cleaner thing) has been a bit on the fragile side. Working properly hasn't been a high point for a lot of things either.

I'm sure lots of people will be jumping up and down supporting this for no particular reason but I'm going to remain a bit cynical based on existing experience of the man and the products.

[Jonesy23]

craigjm said:

There is no reason why the air blade hand dryer technology couldn’t be adapted to do away with inefficient wiper blades

Well its got to be good for something as they're pretty useless as hand driers, with one or two major design flaws.

[Yipper]

The Dyson car will launch in 2020, with a special pollution filter.

He is, allegedly, pumping £2b into the endeavour and the UK economy.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-an...

[RobDickinson]

Love all the puns lol..

EV's will give opportunities to new manufacturers to edge into the market.

Dyson has a lot of experience and engineers, will need to catch up on manufacturing and things like aero, reliability,interior etc

but good luck to him.

[CDP]

I hope they do well but I can't help thinking of this:

[B'stard Child]

SeeFive said:

Had 3 dysons. Seem to work well right up until 5 minutes after the guarantee runs out, and then the carpet gets covered in lots of red hot metal fragments.

Ahh the good old Dyson motor failure mode - had that twice now but I won't replace it so I've replaced the motor - apparently a 5 year old can take one apart and put it back together - can't understand why I struggled for a day to do it the first time,

Yipper said:

The Dyson car will launch in 2020, with a special pollution filter.l

They've got one in the Dyson - the reason it's a bagless vacuum is because all the crap collects in the cyclones!!!!

[Jonesy23]

RobDickinson said:

EV's will give opportunities to new manufacturers to edge into the market.

Dyson has a lot of experience and engineers, will need to catch up on manufacturing and things like aero, reliability,interior etc

Cars are cars. The fact they're electric is no particular reason for Dyson, or Hotpoint, or whoever to be able to suddenly hop into building something completely unrelated to their current business and with an utterly different requirement for skills and level of complexity.

Similar case with arguing that because someone makes a product with an electric motor and/or a battery they'll have a load of knowledge that will still be valid in an electric car. Unless you're building a toy it usually isn't.

[craigjm]

Jonesy23 said:

Cars are cars. The fact they're electric is no particular reason for Dyson, or Hotpoint, or whoever to be able to suddenly hop into building something completely unrelated to their current business and with an utterly different requirement for skills and level of complexity.

And it’s thats attitude that had meant that the established car companies didn’t see the likes of Tesla coming and are now playing catch up. Electric cars have disrupted the car manufacturing game in the same way that the market for books, cameras, taxis, accommodation and other products have been disrupted over the years previous and seen many established players go to the wall because they were slow to react or didn’t react at all.

[Smiler.]

They're already quite advanced with the design program. It will absolutely beat the st out of the competition. They're going to call it the "Myke".

[randlemarcus]

B'stard Child said:

Ahh the good old Dyson motor failure mode - had that twice now but I won't replace it so I've replaced the motor - apparently a 5 year old can take one apart and put it back together - can't understand why I struggled for a day to do it the first time,

To be fair, Dyson's five year olds are salaried, and have probably done apprenticeships

[anonymous-user]

Jonesy23 said:

I'm sure lots of people will be jumping up and down supporting this for no particular reason but I'm going to remain a bit cynical

No particular reason?

I'm supporting him because it's a British company. There doesn't have to be any more reasons than that IMO.

[bearman68]

[quote=Lord Marylebone]



I recently purchased one of those £400 handheld cordless Dysons with the rotating brush bar on the end and it has honestly changed my life.



A Dyson changed your life?

This needs more recognition.

[RobDickinson]

I'm sure Jonesy has already personally revolutionised several industries and Dysons worth of £7.8 billion is so paltry to be sneered at too...

[TooMany2cvs]

craigjm said:

Jonesy23 said:

Cars are cars. The fact they're electric is no particular reason for Dyson, or Hotpoint, or whoever to be able to suddenly hop into building something completely unrelated to their current business and with an utterly different requirement for skills and level of complexity.

And it’s thats attitude that had meant that the established car companies didn’t see the likes of Tesla coming and are now playing catch up. Electric cars have disrupted the car manufacturing game in the same way that the market for books, cameras, taxis, accommodation and other products have been disrupted over the years previous and seen many established players go to the wall because they were slow to react or didn’t react at all.

I'm with Jonesy on this one. Tesla built their reputation on buying in Elises and electrifying them, then taking a lot of E-class Merc automotive componentry and electrifying it. They don't actually do anything very different to anybody else, just much bigger batteries - which is possible because the platform is designed for it, rather than being compromised by being shared with internal combustion cars. We're simply not seeing those from the mainstream manufacturers yet - because they're still hedging their bets on platforms. Why? Because they know that properly designing platforms is MONUMENTALLY expensive.

There's a large element of emperor's new clothes here.

Are Tesla somehow uniquely competent at designing the automotive platform, their first try way ahead of people who've been doing it for decades?
Why will Dyson be?