Dyson gears up for electric car testing
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Hopefully that doesn't mean they will be made to be unservicable by third parties, disposable, and replaced regularly.
The computerized bits are well isolated control modules and are generally treated as black boxes which either work or are replaced as a unit. But that doesn't encompass the entire vehicle, the vast majority of the vehicle is still very servicable, all the mechanical bits haven't really changed that much from the 60s.
I've rebuilt engines on cars and motorcycles, modern and old, many computerized with EFI, you generally don't worry about the inner workings of the computers unless you're modifying things.
In my experience the more modern stuff is actually simpler having fewer vacuum lines and archaic rube goldberg machines for control systems.
They may of course have all these sorts of avenues covered already, and I might just be thinking too hard.
No idea if Dyson is going to make a good electric car or not but I sure hope they do -- another big player in the space also means more innovation so I'm up for that, and Dyson prides themselves in unique engineering so maybe they'll make a thing that will actually help other manufacturers regardless of whether their car is a success or not.
This is our chance to get ball-wheels on cars. Imagine having 4-wheel 360 degree turning!
On top of which Dyson himself is strongly pro-Brexit [1] which is shaping up to be a disaster for the UK. Really don't hold out much hope for this.
[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/sir-james-dyson...
The Toshiba bagless cleaners work well in my experience.
I started out by vacuuming the floors with my existing machine, and used tried the dyson afterwards. The amount of stuff it sucked up was very surprising.
Sure the dysons are a lot more expensive than the generic machines, but I have to say that I loved mine. It's only because I live abroad now, and I don't have carpets that I've not looked into getting another.
Other brands started to sell bagless vacuums only after Dyson first success. For other brands, bags was as profitable market.
Cleaning dust out of a bagless vacuum is bad if you have allergies.
Buying the bags is an annoyance but it is the lesser one.
I am happy to avoid buying and changing bags.
The bags only need to be changed a few times per year, and changing is a breeze. Compare that to the Dyson where you have to empty the bin every other time you use it. Oh, and the Henry doesn't seem to lose power as the bag gets fuller since the motor is placed on top of the cleaner.
Every part can be replaced (and are still available, for a 18 year old vacuum cleaner!) but as I said, they're nearly indestructible. And cheaper than a Dyson.
There's a reason why professional cleaners use them, I guess.
Also, unlike a fancy Dyson, it's designed to be bashed around, yanked around and generally abused. It's the Nokia 3310 of vacuums. And if a part breaks, because they're used commercially it's cheap and easy to replace.
Brexiteers hold him up as a paragon of British engineering and entrepreneurship. But he took an already-solved problem and "re-imagined" it with twice the cost and power requirement.
I'll stick with my Vax, thx.
It's not his idea, though he was probably the 1st one to use it in vacuums https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclonic_separation
And then shipped production off to Malaysia and Singapore.
But seriously he probably just wants to be like Bosch. A desirable place to buy you electronic components. Otherwise reinventing cars is what sunk Sinclair...
Sadly it's a company that invests more in boasting about how great it is at engineering as it does in actual engineering.
There is no way in hell a Dyson electric car is going to have any impact on any market. This is more of a PR stunt than an indication of any real product. It's more about building the brand (of Dyson and Sir James Dyson) than anything.
As to the supposed comparison by others, someone from Dyson said '“Apple makes a stylistic product; we don’t have any designers at our company. We start out with the internals first and then match the style to it.”