Why did Dyson pick Singapore to build its electric car?


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 24 Oct 2018

SINGAPORE: When James Dyson, the billionaire British inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner, unveiled a plan to build an electric car plant in Singapore, it raised a few eyebrows. 

Not only does the land-starved city state have some of the highest average salaries in the world, but it has been nearly 40 years since Ford closed its factory in Singapore, effectively ending car production on the South-East Asian island. 

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