Dyson to invest £2.5bn developing electric car set for 2020 launch

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Dyson comes clean on electric car plans after employing 400 engineers since 2015 to work on the project

Dyson has revealed that it is developing an electric car, with the company planning to launch a product by 2020. The news was disclosed yesterday by company founder Sir James Dyson in a company-...

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