Dyson

Dyson is known for producing vacuum cleaners, hand dryers and fans.

2024: Plan to axe 1,000 of the 3,500 staff in Britain

Dyson said in July 2024 that it planned to cut more than a quarter of jobs in Britain, or about 1,000 out of 3,500 people, as part of a massive restructuring.

2021: Plan to invest £2.75 billion in tech research

Dyson continues to in-depth explore software, advanced robotics, artificial intelligence capabilities, and new specialties. Exploring and developing these cutting-edge areas is impossible without attracting additional funds and expertise, so Dyson's global plan is to invest £2.75 billion in technology research. The company reported this on April 21, 2021.

Dyson's headquarters in Singapore will create 250 additional seats for engineers. It is planned that the electronics and software development team will double in size and move to another building - St James Power Station. At the same time, the existing Science Park 1 center in Singapore will remain. As for the Dyson campuses in Malmesbury and Hallawington in the UK, they too are in for expansion. 200 new researchers will work here.

Dyson intends to hire specialists in basic scientific, mathematical and engineering fields, including energy storage, artificial intelligence, machine learning, materials science, research on high-speed digital engines and sensor technologies. In addition to third-party specialists, the company expects to hire the first graduates of the Dyson Institute. They will join the team in September 2021 after completing their four-year training.

"We are expanding research and engineering teams in order to achieve increased performance of our devices. In our work, we rely on modern technologies, study robotics and advanced methods of energy storage. The new specialists will join a very large team - ranging from Dyson Institute students to world experts in their fields. Our research teams include developers from around the world (UK, Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia, USA). Our headquarters are in Singapore and trading is in 83 global markets, which is why we look at things globally, "explained the company's founder and chief engineer, James Dyson.

2020

Rejection of the release of electric vehicles

In mid-May 2020, Dyson announced the curtailment of development of electric vehicles, despite the fact that the company spent about four years on this and about £500m.

Dyson founder James Dyson spoke about the failed project in an interview with The Times. He also showed a prototype vehicle, which was designed under the working name N526.

James Dyson amid prototype Dyson electric car

We are talking about a 7-seater electric crossover equipped with a pair of electric motors with a capacity of 272 liters. from. One of the motors is located on the front axle of the car, the other on the rear.

The total power is 543 hp (650 N·m). It  takes 4.8 seconds to accelerate to 100 km/h at the 2600- kilo­grammo­vogo elektro­mobilya, the maximum speed is limited to 200 km/h. The range of the electric car was supposed to reach 960 km.

The car turned out to be quite large: length - more than 2 meters, height - 1.7 meters. For better energy savings, the windshield, as Jason Dyson emphasized, was made over a slope that is larger than that of Ferrari. Large wheels have Michelin tires from an advanced composition with low noise and rolling resistance.

The salon is also made using a number of innovations. Cars use quirky chairs created from multiple rollers. Dyson argues that this is better than chairs in which, as it were, "drown," it avoids pain in the lower back.

Up to 600 people worked on the Dyson automobile, and it was financed mainly by the founder of the company himself - in an interview with a billionaire engineer, he said that he spent about $600 million of his own funds on the development. However, in October 2019, Dyson realized that the electric car comes out too expensive to produce, and the project is not viable.^[1]

Release of artificial lung ventilation devices

At the end of March 2020, Dyson announced that the company would produce ventilators. The vacuum cleaner manufacturer announced this after the British authorities called on business to provide local health authorities with the necessary equipment to combat the Covid-19 coronavirus. Read more here.

2017:2020 Electric Vehicle Roadmap

The British company Dyson, known as the manufacturer of vacuum cleaners and other household appliances, plans to release an electric car by 2020. This is reported by Bloomberg with reference to the founder of the company James Dyson^[2].

According to him, the company plans to invest £1 billion ($1.34 billion) in the creation of its own electric car. The company is going to spend the same amount on technologies for creating solid-state batteries.

At the same time, Dyson said that his electric car will be "radically different" from those developed by other automakers, including Tesla.

2015

Since 2015, Dyson has been actively attracting engineers to the staff, including former employees of Aston Martin, Tesla and BMW. In the same year, she acquired the startup Sakti3 for $90 million, which produced batteries based on solid electrolyte technology. This, according to the head of the company, will help compete with other manufacturers of electric cars. Solid electrolyte batteries require less charging time and discharge more slowly than their lithium-ion technology-based counterparts.

1988-1993

James Dyson has long dreamed of improving the transport sphere and even made attempts to influence the amount of harmful emissions. In 1988, he read a report from the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, which concluded that the exhaust gases of diesel engines lead to the premature death of laboratory mice and rats. In March 1990, a team of Dyson engineers began developing a cyclonic filter that would capture harmful particles. By 1993, several working prototypes had been created, which were shown on air on British channels. But the technology did not interest anyone: the industry said that recycling soot accumulated by filters would bring too much trouble.

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