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Vacuum billionaire Dyson launched electric car quest after diesel snub

An employee tests the Dyson V8 cord-free vacuum cleaner. The company now has 400 engineers working on an electric car. (Bloomberg)
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Alex Webb
September 27, 2017 05:00 AM

Inventor James Dyson has confirmed that his company, best known for its vacuum cleaners, is building an electric car. The project has been almost 30 years in the making, the billionaire wrote in an email to employees.

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