Volvo Cars announced to day that Jim Rowan would be taking the helm as CEO & President, but it’s Jim’s background in EVs and autonomous driving tech that should make the rest of the industry sit up and take notice: Volvo is serious about self-driving cars.
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Dyson has unveiled its abandoned electric car project, which racked up $500 million in cost before the vacuum manufacturer gave up on it.
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Dyson, best known for its vacuums, announced that it is shutting down its multi-billion-dollar plan to launch a new electric car after they came to the conclusion that it isn’t “commercially viable.”
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James Dyson and Honda are now at odds regarding claims that Dyson sought to use part of an existing Honda factory to build its electric car in the UK.
Dyson, best known for its vacuums, is still moving forward with its multi-billion-dollar plan to launch several new electric vehicles.
The British company has now announced that it will build the cars in Singapore and those vehicles are unlikely to be equipped with solid-state batteries.
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Dyson, best known for its vacuum, is moving forward with its multi-billion-dollar plan to launch several new electric vehicles.
The company has now announced that it is converting an airfield into an electric car R&D hub with a massive test track.
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Last year, British appliance manufacturer Dyson confirmed that it is investing £2 billion ($2.7 billion USD) to bring an electric vehicle with a solid state battery to market in 2020.
A new report now claims that the company is actually working on 3 electric vehicles and that the first generation may not feature Dyson’s solid state battery technology.
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British technology company Dyson is best known for designing and manufacturing vacuum cleaners, but last year it acquired Michigan-based solid-state battery startup Sakti3 for $90 million and announced plans to build an important $1 billion battery factory to mass produce the next generation battery technology.
The company has since been rumored to be building an electric car using its solid state batteries. Coincidently (or not), Dyson has now hired Tesla’s former head of communications.
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Dyson, a British technology company best known for designing and manufacturing vacuum cleaners, is reportedly building an electric car following investments in solid state batteries. Last year, we reported on the company acquiring Michigan-based solid-state battery startup Sakti3 for $90 million and announced plans to build an important $1 billion battery factory to mass produce the next generation battery technology.
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Dyson, a vacuum cleaner manufacturer turned tech company, acquired Michigan-based solid-state battery startup Sakti3 for $90 million and announced plans to build an important $1 billion battery factory to mass produce the next generation battery technology.
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