Many electrical automotive startups have began up after which shut down over the previous decade or so, a few of which went beneath earlier than producing even one automotive. Shockingly, Faraday Future, maybe probably the most embattled and complicated startup of all of them, continues to be kicking and has really 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 evening and took this photograph of it.
“That photograph should be AI,” you retort, “otherwise you faked it just like the Bigfoot movie.” To start with, Bigfoot is actual and he’s my pal, however I actually did see this Faraday Future for actual in actual life. Admittedly I didn’t get a terrific take a look at the lady who was driving it, so she may have been a robotic or a hologram or one thing, however I’d hope a robotic would have higher sense than to drive considered one of this stuff. It was on paper plates too, so this wasn’t a producer check automotive — somebody really purchased it.
Nicely, “purchased” is a robust phrase right here. Our pals 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 had been possible delivered to firm workers 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 really spent their very own cash on the automobiles, or if Faraday Future simply gave them away.
Faraday Future one way or the other retains getting funding infusions, so it can apparently proceed to ship extra FF91s this yr, and it’s additionally engaged on launching a second model, Faraday X, that can peddle two totally different EVs within the $20,000-$50,000 worth vary. Positive, Jan. I’ll consider it after I see it.
