A manufacturer of vacuum cleaners wants to launch an electric car

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Tuesday, 26 September, 2017 13:25

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British inventor James Dyson has announced on Tuesday that his company was investing$ 3.3 billion CDN to launch an electric car by 2020.

“There are two and a half years, I started to develop a car,” explained Mr Dyson in front of journalists in London. He has formed a team of 400 engineers working on this project, for which his company will invest 1,66 G$ to develop the battery and the same amount for the car itself.

James Dyson

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This ambitious project, conducted in the greatest secrecy until now, relies on “experts Dyson and experts of the automotive industry,” said Dyson in a statement. The company he founded and leads recruiting talent that could help him out with an electric vehicle of its vintage, and non-polluting.

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Specialist vacuum cleaner without a bag and hair dryers, hand dryers electric, Dyson had until now never invited in the transport sector.

Now made public, “this project will grow quickly,” added Mr. Dyson, while warning that he would not provide any additional information now in order to keep confidential the specifics of the vehicle.

He did not specify where the vehicle would be manufactured, suffice to say that it would be assembled in the same place as the batteries, and “close to suppliers, where it is logical from a logistical point of view”.

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The group, which employs about 6,000 people in the world expected to hire thousands of extra employees to work on this project car, added Mr Dyson.

He recalls that almost 9,500 people die in London each year because of exposure to air pollution, according to researchers from King’s College London.

The authorities in the United Kingdom have recently expressed their intention, as in France, to ban the sale of diesel cars or petrol on their markets by 2040.