Dyson to expand Wiltshire facility to boost electric-car tests

Tech company invests 200m in Hullavington site to double vehicle-testing capacity

Sir James Dyson, the billionaire inventor and Brexit backer, has unveiled expansion plans to accommodate more than 2,000 workers at his Wiltshire research facility, more than doubling capacity for electric-vehicle testing.

Coming despite severe warnings over lost jobs and investment from no-deal Brexit, his technology company is spending about 200m to expand the testing facility on a former second world war airfield at Hullavington, near Malmesbury in the west of England.