Dyson submits plans for over 10 miles of electric vehicle test tracks

Hullavington is already home to 400 members of Dyson automotive team following an £84m investment into the former RAF base which occupies 517 acres in the Cotswolds. Phase one development has seen two aircraft hangars restored and three more are reportedly on course for delivery, creating an extra 15,000m2 of testing space.

Phase two - which could bring investment at the airfield to £200m - outlines 45,000sqm of new development space that could accommodate over 2,000 staff.

Test facility proposals include a dynamic handling track, a vehicle stability dynamic platform, an off-road route, a hill and handling road route, plus a fast road route and test slopes.

Dyson CEO Jim Rowan said: “Our growing automotive team is now working from Dyson’s …hangars at Hullavington Airfield. It will quickly become a world-class vehicle testing campus where we hope to invest £200m, creating more high-skilled jobs for Britain. We are now firmly focused on the next stage of our automotive project.”