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Dyson moving the Head Office to Singapore means he can sell his electric car there (ie to the Far East) with less of a tariff......but then why havent other big electric car makers also moved their head office's to singapore?
..Is it because their countries have trade deals which allow them to sell into the Far East, but the post-Brexit UK does not (yet) have such a trade deal.?
I guess Dyson has invested 2.5bn (but probably much much more) into his electric car, so he desperately needs some kind of return on this investment, and if he has to move to singapore to get that return, then i suppose he has to do that.
I am guessing that if Dyson doesnt sell as many electric cars as he needs to, (to break even) then he will be forced to sell Dyson off overseas in order to make back the money that he invested in electric cars in the first place.
I am guessing that Dyson approached the UK government for the investment, but the UK gov't possibly refused to give money over, which then forced Dyson to go to Singapore.
I have to say, i am sure Dyson electric cars will be fantastic, but this is a very saturated market.......there's no garantee of any company making good sales in this one.....i reckon Dyson will end up getting sold off overseas.
The trick will be for some other (perhaps British) company perhaps to scoop up the Engineers that have been developing the Dyson electric car in UK (after Dyson gets sold off) and get them to use their experience to develop a different electric car , under a different company banner.
Its hard not to imagine that some huge Chinese company is gearing up to buy out Dyson, then sell "Dyson" Electric cars back to UK.
They've got Dyson HQ'd in Singapore now...so they can analyse and interrogate Dyson better, ready for swallowing it up...the Buy Out.
In light of how British industry has gone over the last 70 years, this is actually the most likely outcome......ie a continuation of this....
https://massey276.wixsite.com/ukdeclinePML Flightlink, (later called Protean) who were a British company that got started up into Electric cars, got swallowed up by the Chinese and the USA
If only the Brit Government could have bank-rolled Dyson to make Electric cars for the UK market, then things could have moved forward from there.
Too late.
If you ask me, Dyson, ever submerged in his Great Engineering thoughts and aspirations, has unwittingly hopped into a jungle without the support of his own country’s Government….He is now just moving about to keep himself out of whichever of the Lions’ jaws he encounters…….and will end up having to sell off Dyson overseas, as a final personal survival bid.
Ta Ra Dyson, it was nice while it lasted.
I am not going to post my link to the "Revive" British Industry campaign, (on "wix") which predicts such things and shows how to avoid them.