Billions of dollars in development later, Dyson will end its plan to produce an EV by 2021.
While Tesla has been boisterously dragging the automotive industry into the electric age, it’s been easy to forget that Dyson—the engineering giant behind vacuums, air purifiers, and lighting—has been quietly investing billions into building an electric vehicle of its own that it aimed to bring to market as soon as 2021. It even opened a $260 million facility last year to develop and test said vehicle, which would ultimately be manufactured in Singapore. But, as the BBC first reported today, Dyson’s EV project is dead.
