{"id":72868,"date":"2017-09-26T16:42:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T23:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/dyson-to-make-electric-cars-by-2020"},"modified":"2017-09-26T16:42:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T23:42:33","slug":"dyson-to-make-electric-cars-by-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/dyson-to-make-electric-cars-by-2020","title":{"rendered":"Dyson to make electric cars by 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dyson-to-make-electric-cars-by-2020.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>James Dyson announced Tuesday he was investing \u00a32.0 billion ($2.7 billion, 2.3 billion euro) into developing an electric car by 2020, a new venture for the British inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner.<\/p>\n<p>The 70-year-old British entrepreneur said work began two and a half years ago on a project which he hopes will help tackle the scourge of air pollution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDyson has begun work on a battery electric vehicle, due to be launched by 2020,\u201d he said in an email to employees, referring to his eponymous company.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-09-dyson-electric-cars.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017&#45;09-dyson-electric-cars.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Dyson announced Tuesday he was investing \u00a32.0 billion ($2.7 billion, 2.3 billion euro) into developing an electric car by 2020, a new venture for the British inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner. The 70-year-old British entrepreneur said work began two and a half years ago on a project which he hopes will help tackle [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}