Dyson To Make Electric Cars From 2020

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41399497

Who wants to have a bet on where these cars will be made ?

Will it be in Malmsbury, where he used to make his hoovers, or will it be Malaysia ?

[aelmpvw]

thank you mikey :-)

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

Yes but surely just because people have stopped buying new ones, doesn't mean that there are not many to be seen, after all they are not that old, so there must still be plenty on the market, but where are they?

[Gromit]

AOG
Smart Cars sales of the ForTwo are higher in 2017 than last year, so there are actually more of them on the roads.
Why you have not seen as many is unknown. The people who but them may be in a different wealth bracket than where you live, or Leaf sales have eaten into the UK market. As they are petrol/deisel engined cars, I would be pleased if sales were down, but sadly they ain't.

[Gromit]

http://carsalesbase.com/european-car-sales-data/smart/smart-fortwo/

[youngmafbog]

//It is German owned and manufactured in France. //

And dont some of them have a Mitsubishi engine in them?

I also believe there is a rag top version so you can wind the roof down and actually hear people laughing at you.

[RATTER15]

Ludwig "There was a rubber band ( not a joke, an actual rubber band ) that kept breaking on the only Dyson vacuum cleaner I ever owned."

I have used dysons pretty much since they come out, your "rubber band" is clearly a drive belt, nearly all drive belts are made from rubber I believe! Yes they can break but if yours kept breaking I would suggest there was something wrong with the machine or the way it was used. in 20 years of using dyson I have only had 2 break. I also repair Dysons as a bit of a sideline, I have replaced a few broken belts but I usually just replace them as a matter of course. The thing I like about Dyson vacuums is they are easily repaired by anybody that knows how to use a screwdriver. The problem Is that people will sooner throw away a perfectly good Dyson than attempt to clean or unblock it. Most of the ones I repair take 5 mins to sort out with no parts required.

[Baldric]

//Will it be in Malmsbury, where he used to make his hoovers//

Dyson made Hoovers, well I never knew that.

[EDDIE51]

Brings a new meaning to 'In Car Vacuum Cleaner', will they clean themselves?
Gromit ,yes we do have 'dirty' electricity generation.
But as I have pointed out several times here, it is 100% due to past governments abandoning nuclear power.
We now not only have no British company able to build a nuclear plant we do not have any engineers able to design such a plant or even a training scheme for nuclear engineering.
In 30 years we have gone from the world leaders to non starters.
This is due entirely to the highly successful 'Nuclear Power No Thanks' campaine of the 1970s. It was based on the false premise that Nuclear power stations were just a front to produce material to make nuclear bombs. This in turn was a reaction to the massive CND protests and marches of the 1960's .
Now we are forced to rely on France and China to design and build our new generation of clean nuclear power plants, the only other option was Russia and their nuclear plants are considered too unreliable and potentially unsafe.