The home appliances company plans on spending some $2.6 billion on it Dyson, the British company best known for fancy vacuum cleaners and those hand dryers that you have to dip your hands into, has revealed a major new initiative to build a ?radically different? electric car. The company has been secretly working on this car since 2015 and already has a team of 400 employees dedicated to developing the prototype vehicle.
?We?re starting from scratch. What we?re doing is quite radical,? founder and CEO James Dyson told The Guardian. Fueled by a hatred for pollution, the inventor has been dreaming of building an electric car since 1998.

Vacuum company Dyson is building an electric car https://t.co/Dazx8LbLv2 pic.twitter.com/0kpz6iZw1V? The Verge (@verge) September 26, 2017
James Dyson just announced to @Dyson employees that we?ve begun work on a battery electric vehicle, due to launch in 2020. pic.twitter.com/yUZNvIsYIi? Dyson (@Dyson) September 26, 2017

The luxury car is slated to launch in 2020, and will compete with luxe car models from Tesla and Volkswagen. A major difference between Dyson?s planned car and others is likely to be its battery technology.
While most existing electric vehicles sport lithium-ion batteries, Dyson plans to design and use smaller and more efficient solid-state car batteries. The company has been building out its battery team for several years, especially with the 2015 acquisition of solid-state-battery company Sakti3.
Via: Bloo...