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Vacuum Company Dyson To Build 'Radically Different' Electric Car (theguardian.com)
British inventor Sir James Dyson has announced plans to build an electric car that will be "radically different" from current models and go on sale in 2020. The Guardian reports: The billionaire who revolutionized the vacuum cleaner said 400 engineers in Wiltshire had been working since 2015 on the 2.5 billion British pound project. No prototype has yet been built, but Dyson said the car's electric motor was ready, while two different battery types were under development that he claimed were already more efficient than in existing electric cars. Dyson said consumers would have to "wait and see" what the car would look like: "We don't have an existing chassis [...] We're starting from scratch. What we're doing is quite radical." However, he said the design was "all about the technology" and warned that it would be an expensive vehicle to purchase. While he did not name a price, he said: "Maybe the better figure is how much of a deposit they would be prepared to put down."
I'm not joking it was actually very impressive, the way the power ramped up using a digital function was amazing.
Dyson has a long history of taken existing and well known concepts and putting them in a different box. These examples are just the latest. Their vacuum is nothing more than taking Dyson's own off the shelf shop vac, and then trial and erroring his way to make it smaller because he didn't understand the calculations developed 40 years earlier. The jet drier... Just a Mitsubishi version that looks a bit better. The air multiplier fan? Toshiba's patent with a slightly smaller motor (20 years after Toshiba stopped making them) so it doesn't have as big a base. Their hair drier? All looks with the airmultiplier concept. 10x the price of a traditional one, same airflow, same heating, but much heavier.
Waveform sculpting for efficient motor driving is second year university level stuff, and any idiot can show you cool pictures on an oscilloscope. What it does result in is fantastically small motor designs that are almost impossible to repair, which is one of the reason why waveform sculpting has never left the "it needs to be as small as possible" realm and moved into wider industry.
I agreed with you up until the last line. Essentially all modern EVs use waveform sculpting.
All we want to do is eat your brains.