How Dyson can offer a challenge to Tesla and the electric car giants

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Paul Nieuwenhuis asks if non-auto brands ever successfully break in to the electric vehicle market

British vacuum cleaner manufacturer Dyson may be steering into a brand new market. News that the company owned by inventor and entrepreneur, James Dyson, has received UK government research funds for electric...

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