formally cementingCESas the next bully auto show , tonightFaraday Futureunveiled its galvanising car concept platform that the company hopes will let it compete with the like of Tesla . And peradventure Wayne Enterprises , because the FF - O1 is clear something mightily out of Batman ’s garage .
Established in 2014 , Faraday Future has already produce to some 750 employees globally . Last month it announced program for a $ 1 billion manufacturing facility to be built in north Las Vegas embark on in just a few week . But will it build the FFZERO1 concept the company unveil at CES minutes ago ? Not exactly .
The FFZERO1 concept is an over - the - top design study packed full of futurist feature article like a smartphone in the steering wheel , touch screen surrounding the number one wood , supercar curve , and a cockpit - similar layout for the driver and rider . It vocalize too safe to be honest , and it is .

But Faraday Future , or FF as the troupe wants everyone to call them , is using the conception to show off its VPA ( or Variable Platform Architecture ) that allow multiple vehicle eccentric to be build onto the same frame with minimum modification . So take out all the flash from the FFZERO1 concept and you could establish a more practical and affordable fomite on top of what ’s left — like an all - rack drive pickup motortruck , or a two - steering wheel drive sedan chair .
By starting with a world-wide platform , Faraday Future puts itself in a locating to offer up a wide smorgasbord of vehicles , while still only needing to churn out the base unit from its new billion dollar mill . The VPA is even elastic enough to lodge varying numbers of electric motors , and its battery wo n’t be a undivided monolithic brick , but a series of smaller king cell that can be swap out or upgraded for better performance as involve .
Can Faraday Future deliver as promised ? It remains to be witness . The company can for sure raise money and make promises with fiddling difficulty , but that ’s a prospicient way from put an electric vehicle in your driveway .

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