Dreame’s rocket-powered car can do 0–60 in 0.9 seconds because you can just say things now

When I first heard that a vacuum company had released a rocket-powered electric vehicle with physically impossible-sounding performance specs, I immediately thought James Dyson was up to his old tricks again. Fortunately, I was wrong. This time the household appliance company trying its hand at super car design is Dreame (pronounced like “dreamy”), a little-known Chinese firm that has grand ambitions to become a global consumer electronics giant. The company held an expo of sorts in San Francisco this week that resulted in a flurry of product announcements. And because we live in an attention economy, and one of the best ways to grab people’s attention is to show off a ridiculous looking car , Dreame is doing exactly that. Again. The first time was last January at CES, when Dreame displayed a four-door concept car with four electric motors capable of putting out 1,399 kW of power (that’s 1,876 horsepower) and accelerating to speeds of 100km/hour in 1.8 seconds. As you can see, we’re already off to an absurd start. The NEXT 01 JET Edition Car at the Dreame NEXT event during the Silicon Valley Summit at the Palace of Fine Arts on April 29, 2026, in San Francisco, CA. Photo by Kelsey McClellan / The Verge Not even five months later, Dreame is back with another car — and this time, they really outdid themselves. The company claims that its Nebula NEXT 01 Jet Edition, equipped with a pair of “rocket engines,” can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 0.9 seconds . …