Faraday Future on Wednesday announced the start of production of its FF91 electric SUV, although the company hasn’t actually shown off any completed customer cars yet.
Photos from the commencement of production at Faraday’s Hanford, California factory, show only one shell. The company says it will hold a “launch event” for the FF91, scheduled for sale in both the US and China, on April 26.
The FF91 was first introduced in concept form in 2017 and shortly after Faraday announced plans to build a new factory in North Las Vegas, Nevada to build it. Production was then moved to a facility in California, a factory that produced repurposed Pirelli tires, and Faraday revealed. First production FF91 body in 2018, with a vehicle “intended for production” later. However, persistent financial problems have slowed progress. Faraday said last year that it need more funds to put the FF91 into production.
Faraday Future FF91
Faraday has stuck to the same specs throughout these plans. The company says the launch version of the FF91 Futurist will have 1,050 horsepower and a 0-60 mph time of 2.27 seconds, along with an EPA-rated 381-mile range. Company confirm that the EPA . scope last year, with a 142 kWh battery pack.
At the time of FF91’s release in 2017, Faraday discussed a price is nearly 300,000 USD that, despite the company’s high-tech aesthetic, the target was not Tesla or Lucid but Ferrari, Rolls-Royce, Bentley and Maybach, this is because Launched the first electric car at the 2023 Shanghai auto show in late April. The Rolls-Royce Ghosts The EV will launch later this year. While the upcoming FF91 and Maybach are SUVs, the Specter is a more traditional coupe.
Faraday said last year that a planned second model, the FF 81, is Expected mass production in South Korea at a former GM facility in 2024. That mass production intention could also mean lower prices.
Prototype Faraday Future FF91
The additional models are part of a second phase of expansion that the company says will also involve “smart device sales” with the goal of “creating a mobile ecosystem with revenue generation. rapid rise,” according to the release. This sounds a lot like the Le Eco effort by Faraday advocate Jia Yueting, which tried to create a hardware and software ecosystem around her own electric cars and phones without success. With Jia, nicknamed YT in the company, still influencing Faraday’s decision-making, despite no longer serving as CEO, that idea seems to have resurfaced.
In the third phase of expansion, the company says its goal is to “sustain the rapid growth of smart device sales while achieving explosive growth in eco revenue, including including internet applications, software and sharing.” It’s an ambitious plan for a company that has yet to deliver a single vehicle to a customer.
