DYSON has denied that its engineers in Malmesbury are working on parts for a new environmentally friendly car.

A report in The Independent on Sunday suggested that Sir James Dyson was in talks with car manufacturers to produce a motor that would revolutionise environmentally friendly transport.

However Dyson has dismissed the rumour, saying it has all been blown out of proportion.

The Independent journalist suggested that teams are developing a powerful lightweight motor that could enable electric cars to zoom along for hundreds of miles without causing pollution.

But Dyson has dismissed the claims saying that a motor already exists and its billionaire inventor Sir James Dyson, had suggested transport as another avenue for the motor in years to come.

After a conversation with the billionaire entrepreneur the reporter suggested that he had said electric cars would be the future of transport, they could outnumber petrol vehicles in ten years time.

However a spokes man for Dyson said: "The journalist got very over excited and made a huge story out of it.

"He did have a conversation with Mr Dyson and he had mentioned that the motors could potentially be used for eco friendly cars but they are not.

"There are no specific plans at the moment it was just a remark that they could be.

"Our team of engineers in Malmesbury do make motors but not one that could specifically be used in a car."

Mr Dyson employs a research team of 400 the companies Headquarters at Filands in Malmesbury, and manufactures his products in Malaysia.

His scientists have already created extra-strong digital motors, which are half the weight of normal motors.

Named the Dyson Digital Motor the patented design turns 10,000 times a minute, which is five times faster than that of a Formula One car, with the aid of a microchip.

The motor is already used in two of Dyson's vacuum cleaners and in the Airblade, the speedy hand-drier he launched two years ago.

Mr Dyson, whose bagless vacuum cleaner earned him an estimated £700m fortune was reported to have said: "They're quiet and they're pollution free. An electric car doesn't go far enough. It could do. Electric motors can do that.

"At the moment, electric cars are seen as city cars and to go 30mph is quite enough, but in the future that will change. An electric motor can go to very high speeds."