Will Dyson's EV suck, or blow us away?

Iain Kelly

Contributing Journalist

1 min read

James Dyson, the UK-based vacuum mogul, has announced today that his company is going to build an electric vehicle in an attempt to improve air pollution.

In a statement released to his company today Dyson admitted his interest in improving emissions from traditional internal combustion engines dates to a scientific paper about toxins in exhaust gases way back in 1988.

James, the founder and head of the Dyson company, said there is already a 400-strong team (which he is increasing aggressively) working on the project, and has committed GBP2mil to building a production electric vehicle, to be launched in 2020.

No details will be released publicly yet in the interests of staying ahead of his competition in this field, but fascinating times are ahead as the EV movement gathers momentum!

Iain Kelly is the gasoline addicted luddite behind The Creators Online.

Will Dyson go full Elon? Tell us what you think in the comments.

Iain Kelly

Contributing Journalist

A love of classic American and European cars drove Iain Kelly to motoring journalism straight out of high school, via the ownership of a tired 1975 HJ Holden Monaro.  For nearly 20 years he has worked on magazines and websites catering to modified late model high-performance Japanese and European tuner cars, as well as traditional hot rods, muscle cars and street machines. Some of these titles include Auto Salon, LSX Tuner, MOTOR, Forged, Freestyle Rides, Roadkill, SPEED, and Street Machine. He counts his trip to the USA to help build Mighty Car Mods’ “Subarute” along with co-authoring their recent book, The Cars of Mighty Car Mods, among his career highlights.  Iain lends his expertise to CarsGuide for a variety of advice projects, along with legitimising his automotive obsession with regular OverSteer contributions. Although his practical skills working on cars is nearly all self-taught, he still loves nothing more than spending quality time in the shed working on his project car, a 1964 Pontiac. He also admits to also having an addiction to E30 BMWs and Subaru Liberty RS Turbos, both of which he has had multiple examples of. With car choices like that, at least his mum thinks he is cool.
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