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Faraday Future Unveils Super Fast Electric Car (bbc.com)
Start-up Faraday Future has unveiled a self-driving electric car that it says can accelerate from zero to 60mph (97km/h) in 2.39 seconds. Faraday says the FF91 accelerates faster than Tesla's Model S or any other electric car in production. From a report on BBC: It was shown off at the CES tech show in Las Vegas. But Faraday Future has faced financial difficulties and one analyst said it had to challenge "scepticism" following last year's CES presentation. The FF91 was introduced via a live demo, in which it drove itself around a car park and backed into an empty space. Pre-recorded footage also showed the car accelerating from standstill to 60mph in 2.39 seconds. Tesla's fastest model did it in 2.5 seconds on the same track. Late in the presentation, however, there was an awkward moment when Chinese billionaire Jia Yueting tried to demonstrate the car's self-parking function on stage in front of the audience. This time, the vehicle remained stationary.
I took a look at their web site, and man, does it feel like vapor-ware. All I wanted was information about the car, but 95% of the web site is on features of the seats, doors, and phone integration. Odd sales pitch for a car.
What little I could see about the car part of the car left me saying that it's a just like a Tesla. Except you can actually buy & drive a Tesla.
I predict a quick collapse of this company.
The top speed of my Tesla Roadster is only 125 MPH, but it's always zippy and responsive. We have speed limits as high as 85 MPH in some parts of Texas now. We also have a lot of rural two-lane highways where it's 75 MPH. When passing in these situations, I find it very helpful if I can zip up to 100 MPH momentarily to get on past and get back into my lane.
Also, it has to be said. . . Acceleration is its own reward. The highway in front of my house is only 50 MPH, but 0-50 MPH in the Roadster always brings a smile.
Wake me up when they have a Super Cheap electric car.
... or just comparatively priced with a comparative range to today's ICEs. Now that would be groundbreaking.
Free, as in your money being freed from the confines of your account.
Indeed. Which is the whole reason behind the gigafactory - get battery costs down, so you can put that much battery energy in a vehicle without having to pay out the nose.
I had always thought of the Solar City acquisition as just a "Musk bailing himself out" thing, and the powerwall as just an also-ran product, but it increasingly occurs to me... it's all about the gigafactory. They want to be selling as many batteries as possible, to give them as good economies of scale as they can on the batteries for their cars. So the more home-scale backup systems they sell, the more "complete" home solar systems they sell with integrated battery backup, the more grid-scale backup systems they sell, etc, the more they accomplish that. So it makes sense that they'd try to make as many battery-related spinoffs as they can.
Because Gigafactory 1 is only the start of their plans. They plan a whole network of gigafactories around the world. Each one targeting a lower production cost than the last.
For the love of Crom, am I the only one here who wants to keep the U.S. technologically competitive?
So you mean its the Samsung business model?
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