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A Dyson car? Don't rule it out. We're suckers for innovation, says CEO

Also refuses to rule out perpetual motion machine, breakable perfect crypto

Dyson's chief executive has hinted at the British technology company's interest in entering the crazy world of automobiles.

Known for its vacuum cleaners, hand dryers and digital motors, the company's chief executive hinted at Dyson's interest in cars in an interview with the Telegraph.

Announcing its annual financial results, Dyson reported a 10 per cent rise in turnover to £1.38bn, while CEO Max Conze told the Telegraph that the company's engineers "have the potential to deliver what he called 'breakthrough' technologies'".

Dyson invested $15m (£10m) in US solid-state battery startup Sakti3 in March, which Conze explained allowed the company to hoover up some sweet tech for its hand-held devices.

"Sakti3 has the best remit to deliver breakthrough technology into other industries, though I could not comment on what they are," Conze mysteriously added.

"If you do what we do and invent disruptive technologies and have thousands of engineers working on these projects for as long as 15 years, then you want to keep that work in the lab [until it’s ready]," Conze ruminated.

The interviewer then asked "if the company could follow Tesla by applying its battery technology into electric cars, or copy Apple", which has long been rumoured (though perhaps wrongly) to be entering the world of automobiles. In response, Conze stated: "We are ruling nothing out."

He added: "Like our friends in Cupertino, we are also unhealthily obsessive when it comes to taking apart our products to make them better."

Dyson's results state profits rose by 13 per cent, after being hit by the strong pound, with a 41 per cent increase in research and development from £80m to £113m in 2014. The company's total tax contribution was £79.8m.

Sir James Dyson, founder of the company – which has has 2,500 engineers globally – said the company spent £3m per week as it developed expertise in entirely new areas.

"We are working on the core technology which will deliver the next leap in technology," said the billionaire philanthropist, inventor, landowner, and supporter of Blighty joining the Eurozone.

"For that we need the world's best engineers, whether at our Malmesbury research laboratories or in the universities we are partnered with. Our technology is our future." ®

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