CES: Faraday Future unveils electric race vehicle concept

The FFZERO1 isn’t a spaceship from a video game. Such customised configuration will enhance real time data visualisation and interaction, boasts Faraday Future. The company has underpinned the concept through its Variable Platform Architecture (VPA) and has the batteries positioned at the center in modular strings.

Electric vehicle firm Faraday Future, which likes to move in mysterious ways, unveiled its first prototype on the sidelines of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. And Faraday expects to release its first production vehicles “in a couple of years”, said Nick Sampson, senior vice president of R&D and engineering.

The FFZERO1 concept features a sparse interior with a smartphone-powered steering wheel; and Faraday Future is not ruling out autonomous driving capabilities, suggesting the vehicle could get itself to the track before the driver gets in to race the thing. “We are designing our own packs and our own control systems”. While Tesla’s X and S models look more like an ordinary SUV and sedan respectively, Faraday Future’s FFZero1 is a whole lot more exotic.

The Gardena, Calif.-based company said it plans to break ground on a $1 billion manufacturing plant in North Las Vegas, Nev., in the next few weeks.

Richard Kim, Faraday’s head of global design, called the vehicle a “high-performance electric dream car” created to “fight ugliness”.

Over the past couple of years, there has been an ever-increasing demand for cars that run on gasoline alternatives, whether these are hybrids, electric cars, or even cars that run on fuels such as kerosene or ethanol.

Sure, Faraday’s future production auto (see what we did there?) definitely won’t be a single seater and surely won’t look like this eccentric concept vehicle. This strategic partnership will allow the two companies to create advanced electric vehicles by marrying technology and innovation in the automotive world through the use of technology, internet and cloud based programming and content derived for entertainment purposes. It also shows off with phone integration ports and the ability to project information across the driver’s line of sight, according to Fox News.