British inventor James Dyson cancels electric car project

A file photo taken on Oct 11, 2018 of James Dyson. Famed for his vacuum cleaners, he announced Thursday, Oct 10, that he has abandoned his bid to mass produce electric cars because it was not "commercially viable". - AFP

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's James Dyson has cancelled his ambitious project to build an electric car, the centrepiece of a £2.5bil (RM13bil) investment in technology, saying he could not see a way to make it commercially viable.

Dyson said his engineers had built a "fantastic car" and that the project was not being closed due to any failures in research and development.