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."

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I'll wait for Electrolux's entry into the market.

Nothing sucks like Electrolux.

I've only owned two vacuum cleaners in my life and both were Electrolux. The first I inherited and was about 50 years before the motor died out. The newer one still sucks.

Unfortunately the new one is not backwards-compatible with the bags the old one used.