# Dyson Reveals it’s Scrapped No Joke Electric Car

- Link: https://greenlivingguy.com/2020/05/dyson-reveals-its-scrapped-no-joke-electric-car/
- Published: 2020-05-17T23:44:47-04:00
- Author: greenlivingguy

**As Engadget reported: The seven-seater had almost twice the range as [Tesla’s Model X](https://greenlivingguy.com/2019/09/tesla-model-x-infographic/).**

They added to:

According to The Times, Dyson revealed that his electric vehicle, codenamed “N526,”
would have been a seven-seater. That’s with a whopping 600-mile range per charge.
This was largely thanks to the company’s proprietary solid-state batteries. All 
which could apparently [sustain](https://greenlivingguy.com/2010/09/environmental-movie-night-in-ossining-new-york/)
such performance “even on a freezing February night. Also on the naughty side of
70 mph on the motorway. Finally and with the heater on and the radio at full blast.”
Assuming that 600-mile figure is based on Europe’s WLTP standards, it’s an impressive
jump from [Tesla](https://greenlivingguy.com/2022/06/teslas-market-share-in-the-u-s-sees-steady-rise-over-last-two-years-increasing-by-125/)
Model S’ 379 miles and almost doubling the long-range Model X’s 314 miles (the latter
also a seven-seater).

As the [Times.uk](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/james-dyson-interview-electric-car-tesla-tzls09t5m)
reports about speaking with Sir James Dyson. “This is the first one that ran. I 
drove it secretly in a screened-off compound we have here,” says Sir James [Dyson](https://greenlivingguy.com/2020/05/more-than-100-blue-bird-electric-school-buses-have-been-ordered-so-far-cummins-electric-drive/).
It is 11am on an early spring day at Dyson’s new research centre in Wiltshire and
Britain’s best-known innovator — and now Britain’s richest person — is showing off
his most keenly anticipated invention. Keenly anticipated, that is, until he scrapped
it. He calls it N526, but to you and me it’s the Dyson car.

[⌊Dyson reveals its scrapped no joke electric car⌉⌊Dyson reveals its scrapped no
joke electric car⌉[

Unplugged: Dyson with his electric car at the firm’s research centre in Wiltshire

Source: The Sunday Times UK

It’s the first time he has shown the seven-seater, electric SUV with a 600-mile 
range to anyone outside his firm — the picture, above, is the first to be published.

Sources: The Sunday Times U.K. and Engadget

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