Faraday Future FFZERO01 Concept
Credit: Daily Mail/akami
Revealed – not a lot, really.
● they have an ugly high performance electric concept car (1,000 hp, 0-60 mph under 3 seconds, top speed over 200 miles per hour claimed)
Claims include:
● battery is mounted under the floor
● “variable platform architecture” allows them to vary wheelbase, track, crush zone, battery packs, number of motors (front, rear, 1, 2, 3, 4), quickly & cheaply to address various markets (roadster, luxury performance sedan, crossover, mass market, compact, subcompact etc.) without designing a new vehicle from scratch
● “very fast” – faster than other companies – hard to tell, since they have no marketable product at the moment, but claim to have been founded 18 months ago & to have its first vehicle on the market in 2 years
● subscription plan will provide customer with a range of vehicles according to need
Big reveal
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3384914/Mystery-electric-car-startup-unveils-prototype.html
http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/4/10711164/faraday-future-ffzero1-concept-car-announced-photos-ces-2016
Faraday Future web site
http://faradayfuture.com/ / Faraday Future California based electric car company operating in stealth mode past year and a half first big splash eve of CES unveiling unveil FFZERO1 high-performance high performance concept car sinewy machine looks race track claimed 1,000 horsepower 0-60 time under three seconds top speed over 200 miles per hour all purely theoretical numbers just a concept limited production design features glass roof clear view white carbon fiber interior more novel ideas smartphone mount center of the steering wheel Halo Safety System supports driver’s head neck helmet feeds driver water oxygen instrument panel designed gather biometric data driver FFZERO1 Faraday Future first production car potential Faraday upcoming billion-dollar Nevada factory concept’s underlying platform Variable Platform Architecture touted highly customizable platform very modular flexible basis change size platform Nick Sampson senior VP Faraday R&D engineering press conference change number power drive systems change physical size electrical size battery packs bigger larger packs smaller packs electrical physical size modularity modular battery architecture unique anybody else in the industry platform built flexibility Faraday operating unusual business model subscribe plan access autonomous vehicles different types needs subscriber request cargo vehicle sporty sedan Faraday Future Southern California headquarters version virtual reality simulated racetrack designers studio design process CES Oculus Rift headsets programmed show off FFZERO1’s performance separate motors at each wheel FFZERO1 production car FFZERO1 isn’t a production car concept version platform Faraday spokesperson Stacy Morris four motors one-seater hypercar design battery pack concept adaptable strings of batteries rows of batteries removed or added placement of the motor shifted within the platform vehicle front-wheel rear-wheel all-wheel drive biggest best battery cell suppliers in the world design architecture battery packs in house Tesla model S Panasonic packs Tesla designing packs control systems Faraday declined to disclose cell suppliers are source Faraday’s substantial funding mystery strategic partnership Chinese media firm LeTV billionaire Jia Yueting Forbes reported primary investor company’s new $1 billion, 3 million-square-foot factory two separate companies leveraging expertise technology and content Morris LeTV Faraday’s diverse funding strategy other sources of funding main markets USA China global launch strategy automakers enter market joint partnerships association with LeTV China LeTV maker of smartphones connected TVs media support Faraday Future’s develop content consumption autonomous cars Faraday Future break ground factory north of Las Vegas futuristic tourist destination We are moving fast showing a high-performance vehicle 550 employees Southern California bringing a car to market quickly as possible quality priority doesn’t have a real product Faraday nimble structure edge over traditional automakers opportunities can change plans quickly type of organization dynamic flexible react to need adaptable and flexible deliver a real electric vehicle buy subscribe to factory completed launch actual car within the next couple years /
