According to U.S. media reports on November 7, a legal document recently revealed that Dyson's plan to develop electric vehicles was leaked to its competitor Tesla two years ago by engineers.
When Dyson Ltd. started developing electric cars, the move was undoubtedly radical for a company famous for its vacuum cleaners and dryers, and planning secrecy was not easy. Technology leaks were one of many legal disputes. Thousands of miles outside San Francisco court, Waymo and Uber's theft disputes have not yet subsided.
Relevant court documents can be traced back to 2015 and debuted on Monday, revealing how a 30-year-old engineer, Pierre Pellerey, told Tesla about Dyson's EV history more than two years prior to Dyson's release. The company started months of legal struggle.
Pellerey, a former engineer at Dyson, is a very secretive person and company founder and chairman James Dyson told them to keep their EV plans in the dark, not even telling unrelated colleagues. Pellerey's attorneys said Pellerey had not leaked to Tesla But Dyson won the court hearing, barring Pellerey from working for Tesla for nine months, while Tesla's law firm declined to comment.When Dyson announced its car plan in September, the court The case was publicly disclosed.
Increasingly fierce competition dominating the electric car market, Volkswagen, Daimler, Toyota, Tesla, etc. are investing in new technologies.Dyson said in September had to invest £ 1 billion (1.3 billion) to develop the new electric Cars and using the same money to build solid state batteries.James Dyson predicts that within a few years, electric vehicles will become the company's largest source of income.