Vacuum cleaner manufacturer Dyson had the ambitious plan to build a fully electric SUV, which will most likely never come. Last year, some footage surfaced of the car that Techzle can show you from all angles today.
Fair is fair: the news value of the patent plates of Dyson’s SUV is of course wafer-thin. As far as is known, the car will never come, since Dyson put a big line through the project last year. Building an electric SUV would not be profitable for the manufacturer. Still, it is interesting to see how the Dyson electric SUV would be designed.
We mainly know Dyson from the bagless vacuum cleaners with names that resonate particularly with car enthusiasts. Unfortunately, the V8 and V10 vacuum cleaners don’t seem to get automotive siblings. Thanks to the English newspaper The Times, we could already show you an image of the Dyson N526 last year, the code name of the prototype that Dyson Automotive has been working on until 2019. These patent photos show the never-before-seen electric SUV from all angles.
Dyson’s N526
The SUV has a relatively minimalist design, complete with recessed handles and stick-mounted cameras that act as side mirrors. The rear is characterized by a strikingly large piece of bare sheet metal and small LED taillights built from square segments. The nose is also strikingly free of frills, although the large bare piece of bumper should of course have been decorated with a number plate. The so-called suicide doors equipped Dyson, with its length of about five meters, should provide space for up to seven occupants. According to earlier information, the N526 would be able to squeeze no less than 965 kilometers of range from its battery pack. This enormous range would be possible because the SUV would receive solid state batteries. The roughly 2,600 kilos weighing Dyson would get two 272 hp electric motors that fired the colossus to 100 km / h in less than 5 seconds. The intended top speed: around 200 km / h.
Dyson indicated in 2019 that it was still looking for a buyer for Dyson Automotive, but it would not have been found. The fact that these farm-fresh patent plates were registered in 2021 indicates that the big boob James Dyson is leaving the design of his car on the shelf for a while. In any case, Dyson Automotive’s plans were already very concrete. The company bought, among other things, a test location in the United Kingdom and invested heavily in setting up a production location in Singapore. In total, around 400 people worked at Dyson Automotive, including none other than Roland Krüger, between 2015 and the beginning of this year, CEO of the ailing Infiniti.