That music they use to showcase the car reminds me of the movie Risky Business and the quote "Porsche, There Is No Substitute". And you can't even buy it until 2018! And they are already donating proceeds to charity! What?
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CES 2017: Faraday Future Shows Off 'FF 91' Connected Electric Car for 2018 Release
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My favorite part was, after decades of Trailrunners and Mountain Bikers berating and threatening each other with every kind of trail access doom over straying off-trail and damaging the fragile, living, macrobiotic crust of the desert, watching a car company brag a bout bulldozing millions of cubic yards of desert.
$%^&* it, screw conservation, from now on I'm driving a monster truck straight through delicate ecosystems and CEO's backyards on my way to work.
$%^&* it, screw conservation, from now on I'm driving a monster truck straight through delicate ecosystems and CEO's backyards on my way to work.
Capacative door handles? That's probably the worst idea I've ever heard, but okay.
The first automobiles were clunky, unreliable, and expensive. No doubt there were people who couldn't imagine cars could be beneficial over a horse and carriage. Without those $100k car "asshats" EV won't advance enough to be beneficial.
Secretive electric car company Faraday Future today held a press event at CES 2017 where it unveiled its first production vehicle, the autonomous FF 91. The unveiling comes just as Faraday Future has been rumored to be "on the brink of collapse" amid financial difficulties and employee departures.
Faraday Future has been a bit of a mystery despite its ambitious plans to remake transportation with a fleet of intelligent electric cars. Unfounded speculation had at one point suggested Faraday Future might somehow be related to Apple and its Project Titan vehicle efforts, but Faraday's partnership with Chinese electronics company LeEco, which has electric car ambitions of its own, proved otherwise.
Nick Sampson, senior vice president of R&D and engineering at Faraday Future, took to the stage tonight to discuss Faraday's work over the past two and a half years on "reformatting the future of mobility" with a focus on disruption.
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All this new car tech is amazing. On the other hand, traffic/congestion is awful nearly everywhere, and only getting worse.
I've been saying for years, I've always wanted a Chinese electric car. What could go wrong?
I would rather buy an American electric vehicle. Tesla. 'Merican pride!
Impressive! The first and to date only competitor to Tesla.
Secretive electric car company Faraday Future today held a press event at CES 2017 where it unveiled its first production vehicle, the autonomous FF 91. The unveiling comes just as Faraday Future has been rumored to be "on the brink of collapse" amid financial difficulties and employee departures.
Faraday Future has been a bit of a mystery despite its ambitious plans to remake transportation with a fleet of intelligent electric cars. Unfounded speculation had at one point suggested Faraday Future might somehow be related to Apple and its Project Titan vehicle efforts, but Faraday's partnership with Chinese electronics company LeEco, which has electric car ambitions of its own, proved otherwise.
Nick Sampson, senior vice president of R&D and engineering at Faraday Future, took to the stage tonight to discuss Faraday's work over the past two and a half years on "reformatting the future of mobility" with a focus on disruption.
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Horrible looking car. But, so is the prius and it sells. The tech is great from a distance. But, I have feeling up close is has plenty of bugs. As seen in the demo. And, that is the problem with trying to make a car that fast and have it be considered luxury or high end. There is a reason BMW, Mercedes, Audi and Tesla take 3-5 years to truly develop a solid car. 2.5 years? That is impressive. Especially with new technology. I just don't believe it's ready. I'm glad they are trying. Gives Tesla and German luxury automakers some competition.
They spent so much time saying buzz words. They should have just got on with it and showed the car. I swear we only got 5-6 minutes of actual car over the entire 1 hour and 30 minutes or so.
Looks okay I guess, nothing special. I'd rather have the Tesla Model S than that thing just based on appearance.
Looks okay I guess, nothing special. I'd rather have the Tesla Model S than that thing just based on appearance.
Do you guys remember their last big press conference exactly 1 year ago?
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True, they take from the grid which is still uses a lot of coal. But on the bright side if you look at how much cleaner the grid has gotten in the last 5 years there's a lot of hope.
How are you educated and informed regarding this then? By the always balanced and unbiased media?
Even here in Holland (quite a liberal country where fossil fuel costs are extremely high) the tax-cut for hybrid lease-cars drivers have gone. Therefor no-one leases a hybrid as company car now.
The Hybrid was once seen as the best green thing for cars... seemingly not anymore if the country doesn't want to stimulate the sale of greener cars...
EV cars which have to be charged up many times (with the help if fossil fuels..?) are still in their infancy. Running them some years also reduces the capacity of the batteries.
I'm sure cars running on electric motors (preferably a motor per wheel) is the future. But the way the electricity needed is acquired and stored is awkward.
Who claps for themselves during a presentation? wtf....
No gracias
No gracias
And 2018 comes and still no car. And journalists will refuse to call it vapourware in 2019 and 2020. Yes, we've seen this story before. I'd bet my life anyone cheering in that room is an early investor. And they'll be the first to cash in and get out. Anyone can show a controlled test going faster than another's car. Show me 100,000 production models doing the same thing.
A very odd moment when they proudly displayed some slick video footage of bulldozing a thousand acres of pristine desert habitat.
It is possible to get/use green electricity. In the U.K. There is Ecotricity who have rolled out a national network of charging points.
Very bad presentation. Everyone's trying to do the Steve Jobs these days but seem to get stage fright and trip over their words or forget their lines. Plus, it seemed like they had a deliberate pause for an applause which the crowd gave out of sympathy.
The self parking sounds great if I can just tell my car to drive home and park there and come and pick me up after work. These guys really over hyped their idea. It's actually much less visionary than I would expect the next generation of transport to be. This is a half step (or less).
The self parking sounds great if I can just tell my car to drive home and park there and come and pick me up after work. These guys really over hyped their idea. It's actually much less visionary than I would expect the next generation of transport to be. This is a half step (or less).
To be honest, I think these companies with drastically less time and money than Apple producing these kind of products just goes to show how Apple are sitting on their hands.
[doublepost=1483526976][/doublepost]It's suspicious that the guy kept stressing the fact it's a "luxury electric vehicle." That screams "unaffordable" to me. What makes Tesla different is that their whole mission statement has always been about the Model 3. The Roadster, Model S and Model X were designed purely to generate the profits required to build the first affordable and luxury electric vehicle - the Tesla Model 3 which will be $35,000 at launch in 2018, and include all of the automated driving instruments, range and quality of its 3 siblings - no corners cut. But also to support their EVs with renewable energy and power infrastructures that can benefit everybody in the world.
I am not a Tesla salesman, these are things I believe to be true from what I've seen of Tesla.
It'll be good to keep an eye on Faraday Future, but I wouldn't jump to reserve.
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How does delisting prevent bankruptcy? I don't see the connection.
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Would have been visionary if they showed self parking 10 years ago.