A 200.000 rpm electric motor and a hypercar Dreame

You know, there are days I enjoy working in the automotive world, and other days I'm trying to rip my brain out through my eye sockets. Today I'm enjoying it very much.

Why? Because Chinese vacuum cleaner manufacturer Dreame let the world know that it's planning to take on the likes of Rimac, Bugatti, Koenigsegg and BYD. That last one might not be a hypercar builder, but I have to include it, since it currently holds the record for fastest EV on the planet with a top speed of 472 km/h with the Yangwang U9 (the car that also jumps, albeit not at 472 km/h yet).

I get that this news in itself isn't that interesting. I mean, Dyson has tried to make an EV before and didn't manage to do so because of extreme costs. Also It tried to make a car for the people. Dreame is making a car for just a select few of those people. A difference.

Another difference is the way they go about it. They're taking the introduction of a 200.000 rpm electric motor for a vacuum cleaner as the launch of the plans to take on the most famous of famous car brands in the world. I don't know if Dreame did it this way because it has humor or not, but I like it. The insane disconnect between a vacuum electric motor and a Bugatti Veyron or a Rimac Nevera is so mindbogglingly huge, I can't even comprehend it.

But still, Dreame is confident it can built not only a car, it can do so on the basis of this small electric break through engine. And I'm rooting for them. It would be an amazing story to write in the future.

It's hard to know if Dreame will actually reach the point at which a fully electric hypercar will be built for consumers. It probably has some skillful people working for it, since it made the 200.000 rpm motor reality and it has a background as a part of Xiaomi, which now also makes cars.

Dreame has the benefit of it being easier to built such a electric car now than it was a few years ago. It's essentially boils down to combining a powerful battery with some powerful motors (which they potentially already have), and you have a base to built a beautiful car on. They definitely have the knowledge to do that.

The issue is that, as many companies have shown in the past and are showing now: it's finding an audience for those cars that's quite hard.

The CEO's of aforementioned established brands are complaining about it. Not so much the building part. That is a large amount of having the grit and passion and a huge amount of cash. But more the finding people to sell the electric hypercar to. It seems nobody wants to pay huge amounts of money to get a battery with some powerful electric motors.

I fully understand that. I would want to buy an engineering marvel not an insanely powerful vacuum cleaner, uh, tablet on wheels. As said it's relatively easy to slap a electric hypercar together, as is shown by BYD/Yangwang. But speed and power do not equal desire. That, it turns out, has to do with the amazement a conventional engine that has been pushed farther than anyone could comprehend by brilliant minds and skilled engineers. A human touch, so to say.

All that to say is that I'm not doubting that Dreame can do it. In fact, I hope they do it. But the market is against them and it's looking to get worse in that segment too.

If it doesn't work out in the end, at least they got some valuable marketing out of it and maybe even sold some 200.000 rpm vacuum cleaners because of it. It's probably the closest most of us are ever getting to owning a part of a hypercar.

In other news:

Tesla is showing off something new tomorrow. Could be a cheaper new version of a Model Y or a more powerful new version of a Model Y. It's coming to Europe, but I don't know if that is good or bad news. Either way, you'll have to deal with it. More fun is the video of Tesla which is showing 6 180cm Chinese men fitting in the Tesla Model YL.

About that new BMW iX3 that the brand will be announcing next week in München. Yeah, that has crashed into a bus on a test drive. Well, maybe not the actual one that will be shown on stage, but there is at least one iX3 less on this planet as you can see in this video of the crash.

Did you ever think about how far you could get with an EV in 24 hours? Neither have I, but the people at AMG did and put it to the test with the Mercedes-AMG GT XX Concept. Turns out it's about 5480 kilometers. Which is a lot. In fact it's a new record. Mostly because the previous record of around 1500 km, set by a Xpeng P7 wasn't that impressive. Getting three times as far is very impressive, especially because it includes fast charging.