We Finally Get To See Dyson's Canceled Electric Car

There was a time when vacuum cleaner manufacturer Dyson was planning to build its own electric car to take on Tesla. Sadly, the project was abruptly canceled last October, so we never got to see Dyson's secret electric car - until now. During an interview with The Times, British billionaire James Dyson presented the company's canceled electric car to the public for the first time and revealed some tantalizing specification details that would have Elon Musk worried.

Codenamed the N526, Dyson's electric car would have been a premium crossover-style seven-seater with an impressive 600-mile range. For comparison, that's nearly double the range of the long-range Tesla Model X, which delivers 314 miles on a single charge.

According to Dyson, the company's proprietary solid-state batteries were capable of achieving this performance "even on a freezing February night, on the naughty side of 70 mph on the motorway, with the heater on and the radio at full blast."

Despite weighing 2.6-tons, Dyson's Tesla Model X rival could accelerate from 0- 62 mph in 4.8 seconds and reach a top speed of 125 mph. This falls short of the long-range Model X, which is half a second quicker off the line and has a top speed of 155 mph. Combined, the two 200kW electric motors would have produced 536 hp and 480 lb-ft of torque. How close was it to the finish line? There was a working, driving prototype that was driven "secretly in a screened-off compound."

Then there's the design. While Dyson's EV was designed to compete with the Tesla Model X, the sporty-looking prototype's design was seemingly inspired by the Range Rover Sport PHEV.