Faraday Future’s insanely fast (and gorgeous) FFZERO1 is the future of

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. In fact, Faraday isn’t even planning on making a vehicle like the concept.

While the U.S.-based Chinese-backed company admits this is just a prototype, it says it sits on the same Variable Platform Architecture (VPA) that will underpin all of its upcoming production vehicles, reports AutoGuide.

Watch out, Tesla: Faraday Future wowed CES audiences this week with its electric concept racecar.

The concept car’s interior features a single seat, which holds the driver at a 45-degree angle to promote circulation. The 1,000 hp racecar concept, which can go 0-100 in under three seconds and reach a top speed of over 320 km/h, is also a study in style and engineering.

“That platform is done on a very modular and flexible basis such that we can change the size of the platform”, Nick Sampson said, head of R&D and engineering. A Los Angeles-area company has been rumored to be working on an electric auto that would take on Tesla, but it kept a tight lid on the details.

Instead, Faraday is planning six electric cars in the upcoming years.

Many are tempted to label it as vaporware, but let’s give the company some time to prove it actually plans to launch production cars. Faraday Future, which embraces ambitious plans to produce a Tesla fighter in 2017, presented last night a styling exercise that will influence its lineup of products, and it’s called the FFZERO1 Concept. The company aims to employ some 4,500 people. We are developing clean, intuitive, seamlessly connected electric vehicles that will advance future mobility solutions for society by consistently challenging the status quo, reinventing our processes, and embracing new technologies.

“Tesla moves at breakneck speed compared to the rest of the industry”, he said before pointing out that FF began 18 months ago, has 750 employees and will deliver its first vehicle in a “few years’ time”.