James Dyson is one of these entrepreneurial geniuses, like Steve Jobs or an Elon Musk. With his Research and Development teams, he succeeded in developing a 100% electric SUV using solid batteries, a technology also developed by some car manufacturers, but which should not be ready until around 2025.
The particularity of this type of batteries is to offer a remarkable autonomy. In the case of the Dyson SUV, it was a question of traveling up to 1,000 km on a single charge! The downside: development costs exceeded 500 million euros, which Mr. Dyson had invested in his personal funds. Only here: for the production of his SUV to be profitable, it would have had to be marketed at a price of ... € 160,000. Minimum. A little beefy then, and that's why it was decided, pass the pun, to remove the plug.
So that all is not lost, James Dyson could perhaps consider sharing his research on solid state batteries with other manufacturers. Most of them trying to reduce their own development costs via partnerships, we can imagine that some are actually addressing Dyson and that one day, your electric car will share something with your vacuum cleaner.
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