Recently, Faraday-future (hereinafter referred to as FF) suddenly announced on social media that it will release a mass production version of its first model, the FF91, at 8 a.m. on February 24. However, this has not attracted a lot of attention from people in the car circle, because people seem to be used to watching Boss Jia's "jokes".
When He Xiaopeng, Li Xiang and others have become the big men of the new car-making forces, it seems that few people remember jia Yueting, who was once the "number one" of LeTV and FF. In August 2014, Boss Jia went to the beautiful country to build a car with great hope, and it has been 8 years so far, and this time may be the closest to reality of FF91.
Since 2014, Boss Jia has gone to beautiful countries to build cars, but the road to building cars is full of bumps and variables, resulting in the delivery time constantly skipping tickets. In fact, the early days seem to be relatively smooth, in the FF company three years after its establishment, that is, in January 2017, released its first model FF91, and invited a number of domestic technology, financial media to participate, the only lack is professional automotive media.
At the press conference, FF Company announced that FF91 has various NP parameters and equipment, with more than a thousand horsepower drive motors, peak torque of 1800 Nm, 0-100 km/h acceleration time in 3 seconds, battery capacity of 130kWh, FF claims that this is the world's highest energy density battery, NEDC endurance of more than 700km. However, in the demonstration session, when Boss Jia controlled the automatic parking function, the car did not move, which was simply an embarrassment in capital letters.
In addition, FF91 also added intelligent lifting 3D lidar, zero gravity seats, facial recognition, deep learning intelligent mutual and so on. However, these advanced humanized selling points will not appear in the first batch of mass production cars, and it is reasonable to continuously improve these functions through OTA push, after all, the new power brands that have now achieved mass production have done so.
What people did not expect was that not long after, Boss Jia ran away from the beautiful country due to LeTV's debt problems and never returned. Immediately stepped down as the chairman of LeTV network, as the global chairman of LeTV automobile ecology, while FF company said that in 2018, it can deliver mass production cars to car owners, with the blessing of "soul figures", and then officially announce the delivery time of products, which is simply "happy and happy".
However, at the end of 2017, some media reported that the FF Automobile U.S. factory was dilapidated and depressed, the grass was overgrown, and there was no production equipment in the factory. But then it was reported that FF Company accepted a $900 million injection from India's Tata Group, after all, building a car is a big deal, and "Wan Zi Ge" said that there are three conditions for success in doing big things...
Even so, FF's mass production car has not been able to land smoothly, and in 2018, the progress of FF 91 has changed from delivery to car owners to starting the assembly of the whole vehicle, and the delivery of mass production vehicles has been "jumping tickets" again and again. During the period, FF Company also had a leg with Evergrande Automobile, which was still called "Evergrande Health" at the time, and Xu Boss Hao invested 2 billion yuan to join the cooperation, but within a few months, he went to court, and finally dispersed unhappily.
Subsequently, Ferrari's future continued to spread the news that the capital chain was broken, and Boss Jia dreamed of building a car to be "stillborn". Even in 2020, there are still a number of FF 91 prototype cars on the Internet that will be auctioned, which can't help but make people think that this is the rhythm of selling cars to "cash out"?
One of the auctioned FF 91 prototypes has a halo because it broke the world record for electric vehicles at the 2017 Pikes Peak International Electric Vehicle Challenge and set a 2.3-second acceleration record in Las Vegas in 2018. As a prototype, its interior is very simple, and the entire interior space of the vehicle is almost completely exposed.
The time came to July 21, 2021, FF company actually acquired other companies through special channels and successfully listed on the backdoor. At the same time, FF91 also opened a pre-sale, a deposit of 50,000 yuan, the official announced that it accepted more than 60,000 orders in 36 hours, the price of this car in the Chinese and American markets was as high as 2 million and 200,000 US dollars, respectively, to know that now the mass production and listing of gaohe hiphiX the most expensive model is only sold more than 800,000.
Although it was successfully listed on the NASDAQ, FF still had a lot of negative news, including a short report against FF issued by Megakin Investment Consulting in October last year, saying that FF cars have no money factory and no progress, and it is impossible to sell a car. Next, the US stock regulator SEC warned that if FF Auto did not submit a financial report, it may face delisting, at which time the public realized that FF had never submitted a financial report...
Earlier this month, a special committee of FF's independent board of directors said that there was no evidence to support the short report of J Capital Research, a previous short-selling agency, and admitted that only a few hundred people actually paid for Farah's 14,000 orders, a statement that misled investors. After that, many responsible persons of FF Automobile were demoted or suspended, of which Jia Yueting cut his salary by 25%.
Jia Yueting's nephew Wang Jiawei, who is vice president of global capital markets at FF Automotive, was suspended from work and paid.
After a series of negative news, FF suddenly smashed out heavy news, and without warning, announced that it was going to release a mass-produced version of FF91. By the way, this is the "new car" conference, not the delivery of mass production cars, as for when the energy production, we have to see what Boss Jia said at the conference.