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While Dyson may be best known worldwide for high-tech vacuum cleaners, the company has a strong affinity for what the British call "boffins," which roughly translates to "eccentric genius inventors." With a slight resemblance to Doc Brown of "Back to the Future" (as played by Christopher Lloyd), company founder James Dyson epitomizes the type. Now Dyson has embarked on a daring new gamble in consumer appliances powered by electricity: automobiles. DON'T MISS: Dyson electric car for 2020 draws executives from Aston Martin, Tesla A lengthy article in the British Financial Times two weeks ago...
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Dyson walks away from (three) Sakti3 solid-state battery patents: updated
Just 18 months after its $90m acquisition of Sakti3, the British consumer-products company Dyson is taking a step back. Dyson has chosen to relinquish its rights to three patents co-owned by the company that were part of the core intellectual property of the Michigan based start-up company. Its...
Green Car Reports -
Dyson electric car plans revealed by U.K. government filings
The U.K. government is helping to fund a Dyson electric-car project, documents reveal.
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Dyson Buys Solid-State Battery Startup Sakti3 For $90 Million
Dyson, the U.K. company famous for its bagless vacuum cleaners, has acquired solid-state battery company Sakti3 in a deal worth $90 million. The news comes just seven months after Dyson announced a $15 million investment in the company, a spin-out from the University of Michigan. Sakti3 represented...
VentureBeat's GreenBeat -
VW To Decide On QuantumScape Solid-State Battery Technology By Summer
Volkswagen will decide whether to get more involved with battery startup QuantumScape.
Stephen Edelstein -
Dyson Invests In Solid-State Battery Startup Sakti3 To Bring Cells To Market
Advanced battery technology startup Sakti3 has received a further round of investment capital to help bring its solid-state cells to market. A new investor, British vacuum-cleaner maker Dyson, invested a total of $15 million and signed a joint-development deal with the company. Existing funders...
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VW CEO Martin Winterkorn showed interest in solid-state batteries during a recent speech.
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Sakti3 Battery Firm: Key To GM 200-Mile Electric Car, $100 Per kWh By End Of Decade?
By all indications, there will be an all-electric 2017 Chevrolet Sonic EV for which General Motors is targeting a range of 200 miles. And one of the keys to achieving such a range from a compact car will be a more energy-dense battery than those used today. DON'T MISS: GM's 200-Mile Electric Sonic...
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GM Ventures Invests In Startup Michigan Battery Cell Maker
If nothing else, the new, post-bankruptcy General Motors is quicker moving than the old one. The latest proof? GM Ventures, its venture-investment arm, has quietly invested $3.2 million in Sakti3, Inc. Founded in 2007 and based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the company develops "next-generation"...
John Voelcker