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Faraday Future Selects Las Vegas As Home For $1B Electric Car Factory (autoblog.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Faraday Future, the newest and most unknown player in the electric car game, has selected North Las Vegas as the home for their billion dollar factory. The 3 million square foot factory will be built on 900 acres and create 4,500 jobs. Faraday Future will release more information on their Tesla fighter, a 100% electric car, at CES in January. Autoblog reports: "Nevada topped finalists California, Georgia and Louisiana in the race to land the 2.5 million square foot plant. It's expected to sit on 600 acres in North Las Vegas's Apex Industrial Park and bring 4,500 jobs to Nevada. Mayor John Lee called the site choice 'a transformational opportunity' for his city of about 220,000 residents. North Las Vegas boomed as the nation's fastest-growing city in the early 2000s and nearly busted when the recession hit and pushed it close to insolvency."
900 acres will sit on 600 acres? Me thinks this company has invented more than just a new electric car design.
I'm too lazy to compose a creative sig.
Right, because nothing says "we're taking this shit seriously" like naming your company Google.
Yeah! Cars will never catch on. Get a horse, dummy!
Reasons for chosing Las Vegas:
1. Because Detroit turned them down.
2. Because they've got "a lucky feeling about this one"
3. They're spending a billion dollars on a new car factory before they've even got a prototype... they probably felt they would be legally required to build it somewhere that permits gambling.
4. Because if it all goes horribly wrong, they could just convert the whole place into a casino.
Faraday Future, the newest and most unknown player in the electric car game
It's unknown if there are more unknown unknowns, we don't know if those in the know know more about this unknown rather than other unknowns. Needless to say we will all know about the known unknowns as soon as there is more to know.
But it's an electric car company, and electricity is really cheap there, because of hydro power from the raging Colorado river! Oh, wait...