Many electrical automobile startups have began up after which shut down over the previous decade or so, a few of which went below earlier than producing even one automobile. Shockingly, Faraday Future, maybe essentially the most embattled and complicated startup of all of them, remains to be kicking and has truly delivered a handful of its $309,000 FF91 luxurious EVs. “I don’t consider you,” I can hear you saying, “the place’s the proof?” Nicely, I noticed one final night time and took this photograph of it.
“That photograph have to be AI,” you retort, “otherwise you faked it just like the Bigfoot movie.” To start with, Bigfoot is actual and he’s my buddy, however I actually did see this Faraday Future for actual in actual life. Admittedly I didn’t get an ideal take a look at the lady who was driving it, so she might have been a robotic or a hologram or one thing, however I’d hope a robotic would have higher sense than to drive one in every of these items. It was on paper plates too, so this wasn’t a producer take a look at automobile — somebody truly purchased it.
Nicely, “purchased” is a robust phrase right here. Our mates at InsideEVs reported that Faraday Future has solely produced 16 FF91s since manufacturing lastly began in 2023, six years after it was first unveiled, and all of them have been probably delivered to firm staff or the celeb influencers that Faraday Future has paraded round. I’ve seen each racing driver Justin Bell and “Promoting Sundown” star Jason Oppenheim driving their FF91s. What’s unclear is whether or not these individuals truly spent their very own cash on the vehicles, or if Faraday Future simply gave them away.
Faraday Future in some way retains getting funding infusions, so it’s going to apparently proceed to ship extra FF91s this yr, and it’s additionally engaged on launching a second model, Faraday X, that can peddle two completely different EVs within the $20,000-$50,000 worth vary. Positive, Jan. I’ll consider it after I see it.