Dyson Electric Car

[jimKRFC]

Heard last week that the factory is finished, it's between Bath and Cirencester somewhere, and they are looking starting production in 2021.

The company I work for has been chosen as the paint supplier (and some other stuff).

[Glosphil]

On Hullavington airfield. The electric car project is sucking money from other parts of the business.

[Mr2Mike]

Glosphil said:

The electric car project is sucking money from other parts of the business.

Sounds more effective than their vacuum cleaners then.

[anonymous-user]

jimKRFC said:

Heard last week that the factory is finished.

Er, it's painted on the outside if that's what you mean?

(There's no production line, process, stores, manpower, or anything like that though.......)

[anonymous-user]

Max_Torque said:

jimKRFC said:

Heard last week that the factory is finished.

Er, it's painted on the outside if that's what you mean?

(There's no production line, process, stores, manpower, or anything like that though.......)

He didn’t say there were, did he?

[TooLateForAName]

Well if you think a big empty shed is a finished factory?

I've suspected for a while that Dyson has Musk envy, this just sounds like a one-upmanship thing on the tent to me

[colin79666]

Max_Torque said:

Er, it's painted on the outside if that's what you mean?

(There's no production line, process, stores, manpower, or anything like that though.......)

You can have it any any colour you like as long as it's yellow

[Heres Johnny]

TooLateForAName said:

Well if you think a big empty shed is a finished factory?

I've suspected for a while that Dyson has Musk envy, this just sounds like a one-upmanship thing on the tent to me

You mean...



isn't as good as ..



Anybody else think a Dyson car is going to be a glorified mobility scooter rather than a car we'd recognise as a car?

[V10 SPM]

Perhaps someone can tell me approximately how many cars Dyson will need to build before any environmental benefits are actually seen?

[Munter]

V10 SPM said:

Perhaps someone can tell me approximately how many cars Dyson will need to build before any environmental benefits are actually seen?

I fear the Sinclair C5 all over again...

[Jonny_]

It'll be expensive, flimsy, pricey to repair and perform barely half as well as the marketing department will claim.

Still, if you can convince people to pay £500 for a fan heater...

[Heres Johnny]

Jonny_ said:

It'll be expensive, flimsy, pricey to repair and perform barely half as well as the marketing department will claim.

Still, if you can convince people to pay £500 for a fan heater...

Don't knock it, in many respects he'd just be following the Tesla rule book.



(And before the Tesla fanboys wade in, expensive - prices start at double that of any other EV and no, you can't buy an M3 yet over here, flimsy - well the build quality isn't great, expensive to repair- accident damage for a new front bumper costing £10k and add in a hire car for 3 months while you wait for parts, and marketing department - lets talk FSD,,, - its a tongue in cheek joke but like the best jokes, there's an element of truth in them)

[Toaster]

Munter said:

I fear the Sinclair C5 all over again...

one here for sale @£750, I wonder what it would be like with current battery technology and motors

https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/153090147740?chn=ps&a...

[modeller]

V10 SPM said:

Perhaps someone can tell me approximately how many cars Dyson will need to build before any environmental benefits are actually seen?

The health benefits for each ICE taken off the road are pretty obvious, especially in cities.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/1...

[V10 SPM]

modeller said:

V10 SPM said:

Perhaps someone can tell me approximately how many cars Dyson will need to build before any environmental benefits are actually seen?

The health benefits for each ICE taken off the road are pretty obvious, especially in cities.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/1...

So if Dyson sold one car that would be a benefit?

[jjwilde]

V10 SPM said:

So if Dyson sold one car that would be a benefit?

In the city it was driven in, yes.

But in the grander scheme Dyson will have to recover all the energy used to build the factory and cars, if he follows Tesla and tries to build a carbon neutral factory (ie solar panels, wind turbines and storage power it) it won't take very long in comparison to a standard car factory.

[V10 SPM]

jjwilde said:

V10 SPM said:

So if Dyson sold one car that would be a benefit?

In the city it was driven in, yes.

But in the grander scheme Dyson will have to recover all the energy used to build the factory and cars, if he follows Tesla and tries to build a carbon neutral factory (ie solar panels, wind turbines and storage power it) it won't take very long in comparison to a standard car factory.

So it is better environmentally for the Dyson car to exist than for it never to exist?

[caseys]

We've had a couple of guys at work leave to go work on this project, so they're really pulling people in from a very broad engineering/IT remit.

[modeller]

The safety mindset of A&D is very much in demand for Auto these days (ISO 26262) .. also now applicable to Motorcycles.

[gmaz]

Plans for a test track submitted

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45345778