https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/01/26/government-takes-back-nearly-8m-dyson-scrapping-electric-car/ Government takes back nearly £8m from Dyson for scrapping electric car project 26 January 2020 Hannah Boland
The Government has recouped almost £8m from Dyson after the vacuum cleaner maker pulled the plug on its ambitious electric car project Dyson had received the grant funding for the plan as part of the UK’s 2016 National Infrastructure Delivery Plan. It had been allocated a facility of £17.5m amid expectations of an engineering boom in Wiltshire, and drew down £7.8m. At the time, the Government had said it was expecting the money to “secure £174m of investment in the area, creating over 500 jobs, mostly in engineering”. Dyson itself was planning to spend as much as [ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2019/05/09/first-details-dysons-plans-electric-car-emerge/ ] £2.5bn in developing the electric vehicles, which it said would be “radically different” to existing cars. The company, known for its vacuums and hairdryers, had been developing its own motor from scratch, claiming there was “no point in doing one that’s like everybody else’s”. However, after two years developing the vehicles, the company pulled the plug on the project, saying there was no longer a way to make it commercially viable. Money would instead be channeled into battery tech and growing its education facility. At the time, Dyson said [ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/10/12/dyson-facing-return-taxpayer-cash-axed-electric-car-project/ ] the grant funding had been given to them to support its research and development of battery technologies – something it said would continue even with the car project scrapped. However, after talks between ministers and Dyson, the Department for Business said the grant facility had now been closed and “the funding support has been repaid in full”. Dyson is thought have been entitled to keep some of the money under the terms of the grant, but decided to pay it all back. It has not received any other electric vehicle grants. A spokesman for the company said: “When our automotive project closed, we contacted the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and repaid the money.” [© telegraph.co.uk] http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=413529&query=Dyson&sort=date search evdl on Dyson + https://www.pakwheels.com/blog/government-convert-3000-cng-stations-ev-charging-stations/ Government to convert 3000 CNG stations into EV charging stations 2020-01-22 ... to promote electric vehicles in Pakistan, the government has set its eyes on converting as many as 3000 CNG stations into the electric vehicle (EV) ... https://static.pakwheels.com/2020/01/ev.jpg For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ {brucedp.neocities.org} -- Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)