Local entrepreneur abandons electric car project.

James Bygum test-drives a prototype of his electric car - the e-Bygum

Midway landowner and tax exile, the Yorkshire domestic appliance entrepreneur James (“If It Sucks, It’s A Bygum”) Bygum has abandoned plans to manufacture the UK’s fully first home-designed electric car.

The prototype hybrid vehicle, modestly called the Bygum by its inventor, was itself abandoned in favour of development of the fully-electric version, the e-Bygum.

Bygum has pioneered the production of innovative but extremely expensive domestic appliances and had hoped to apply the same philosophy to electric car production.

The entrepreneur told staff he had tried to sell the division, which employs 500 people, but that no buyer had been forthcoming.

In a statement, the company said it hoped to find employment elsewhere in the company for most of the UK staff who were working on the project.

“This is not a design failure, just a failure of t’ team to do ‘t bloody impossible,” Bygum said. “Their achievements have been immense – but not bloody good enough. I wanted t’ build electric car that would do 600 miles on’t single charge and the lazy boogers couldn’t do it.”

James Bygum: "Fook off..."

“For those who do not wish to find alternative roles, we’ll treat them fairly and with the respect they deserve, i.e. they can all just fook off. Bloody wasters. No wonder I prefer get mah stoof made in’t China. They don’t bloody complain, they work for peanuts, they just get on wi’ t’ job an’t’ do what they’re bloody well told.”

Bygum announced plans last year to invest £200m in a testing facility near an airfield at Chattingham, close to the local “innovation centre”.

But he faced criticism for deciding to build a factory to produce the “radically different” vehicle in Singapore, after moving the company’s headquarters there after bigging up Brexit.

Prof. Bill Dailey, of the Chattingham Innovation Centre, said: “It never stacked up as a commercial proposition.  It seemed more like a vanity project on his part.

“Tesla have poured billions into it and haven’t made a profit – or are barely profitable despite what their lunatic billionaire owner says. Volkswagen and Ford are having to collaborate on research and development, similarly Jaguar Land Rover and BMW”, but Bygum is famous for not working with anyone.”

“Vacuum cleaners are one thing, but you need really big scale to recoup the cost of R&D on something like a car.”

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Chad Grindr wrote:
Yet another great British industrialist forced to move his business overseas as a result of K*ir Sta*mer’s class war that this Labo*r government has declared on the entrepreneurial classes. I hope all of the leftist loons who voted for this shower are proud of themselves.

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Grey Mondeo Man replied:
Sorry to spoil your rant but I think you’ll find he moved his business abroad in 2019 – when your Tory heroes were in power. Couldn’t have been anything to do with the Brexit that “great British industrialist” (and hypocrite) backed and the subsequent loss of easy access to the third largest global market, could it?

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I thought the last Government was bad enough, but this lot I despise. 

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I think you will find most of the country despises them.

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Tornado Watcher replied:
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