Chinese -
backed electric car startups in the U.S. — namely, Faraday Future and Lucid Motors — have struggled to get their projects up and running on the schedules they project, mostly due to fundraising delays.
The California -
based electric car startup says the car will utilize an industry leading 130 kWh battery that's capable of driving 378 miles on a single charge.
Krause joined the the three - year - old
electric car startup in March, having spent 30 years in executive positions at companies like BMW and Deutsche Bank.
Electric car startup Fisker Automotive said Tuesday it has raised $ 65 million to develop and make its first car model, the Fisker Karma, a plug - in hybrid sports car.
Secretive electric car startup Faraday Future may have accidentally leaked photos of its much anticipated concept car, which were spotted by Car and Driver.
Mysterious electric car startup Faraday Future has been the topic of several news reports lately relating to the company's financial and intellectual property issues, as well as its relationship with Chinese internet company LeEco, which has fallen on hard times recently as well.
Some industry players such as Chinese - funded smart
electric car startup Byton think everyday cars, used for commuting and errands, will be much simplified if they are electrified and enabled by autonomous drive technology.
Before taking over as CEO
of electric car startup Faraday Future earlier this month, LeEco founder Jia Yueting was known as the company's main financial backer and majority shareholder.
The saga of would - be world -
beater electric car startup Faraday Future got weirder than usual this week, and this evening it escalated further.
Struggling electric car startup Faraday Future entered one of the fastest - growing world championships in racing — Formula E — through a partnership with Dragon Racing last season.
Last weekend, the Silicon
Valley electric car startup Project Better Place said that Renault - Nissan, which is its partner, would likely spend between $ 500 million and $ 1 billion on building electric cars.
While Faraday Future posed as the newest
California electric car startup that attracted top auto industry talent, 10 former employees and one person close to the company say the behavior and business practices of its chief investor have brought business to a halt.
Sure, it wasn't the kind of buzz you'd get from revealing a new car — something the
latest electric car startup, Byton, enjoyed this week.
If true, though, it would mean Faraday — which has had notable struggles to even finish the design of its first car, despite having spent hundreds of millions of dollars so far — managed to raise nearly as much as
electric car startup NIO reportedly netted in a recent round of fundraising.
In addition to Tesla, the traditional automakers will face competition from newcomers, such as Faraday Future, the
buzzy electric car startup that is debuting at CES.
While he's struggling to
keep electric car startup Faraday Future afloat, Chinese tech entrepreneur Jia Yueting is dealing with a new blemish: the Chinese government has placed him on an «official online blacklist of credit defaulters,» according to the New York Times, meaning he could be blocked from flights or making big purchases.
Chinese electronics giant LeEco is backing
U.S. electric car startup Faraday Future, but it also has an electric car project of its own going on.
The Verge has learned that Alan Cherry, who was part of the original leadership team that founded the
ambitious electric car startup back in 2014, announced that he was «stepping away» from the company during an all - hands meeting at the company's headquarters today.
A separate source said that Lucid Motors, a rival Menlo Park -
based electric car startup, has fielded several resumes from FF employees looking to jump ship.
Electric car startup Fisker Automotive took the opportunity of the LA Auto Show to meet with members of the media and divulged to the Detroit Bureau (hat tip Autoblog Green) that it is looking for a «better financed partner.»
Ocean View is registered to Chaoying Deng, vice president of administration
for electric car startup Faraday Future, according to previously unreported state filings.
Next month, Faraday Future, the
secretive electric car startup backed by Chinese billionaire Jia Yueting, is set to debut its first production vehicle at the Consumer Electronics Show.
The
aspiring electric car startup that's backed by Chinese billionaire Jia Yueting has faced a series of legal setbacks and financial woes over the last year, most recently publicizing the firing of former BMW veteran who became the company's CFO.
Hours after it was made public that
struggling electric car startup Faraday Future was losing three top executives, the company is coming out swinging against the one who was most deeply involved in trying to keep the lights on.
A month from the make - or - break debut of its supposed production car at CES in Las Vegas, all is far from well at Chinese -
backed electric car startup Faraday Future.
Trouble continues to mount for
electric car startup Faraday Future: Richard Kim, the VP of design and the man behind the look of the company's flagship car, the FF91, has resigned.
The founder of debt - laden tech conglomerate LeEco has defied orders from Chinese regulators to return to the country before end - 2017, saying he needed to stay in the United States as a fundraising for
his electric car startup was making progress.
Elon Musk's
electric car startup will show off it's latest model — a $ 50,000 sedan that the company hopes will take electric cars mainstream.
Green Sheet reports that Tesla,
the electric car startup led by Elon Musk, is recalling 345 roadsters.
This week, Bloomberg reported on WM Motor,
an electric car startup led by Freeman Shen, the exec behind the acquisition of Volvo by Chinese auto maker Zhejiang Geely.
Elon Musk has not only tapped the feds for
his electric car startup Tesla, but also received hundreds of millions for his space launch company — SpaceX.
Despite unveiling its concept car in January with much fanfare,
electric car startup Faraday Future hasn't shaken its reputation as a mysterious company that operates in shadows.
Electric car startup Faraday Future has remained relatively quiet since its splashy debut at CES 2017 earlier this year.
This is despite
the electric car startup's inability to bring their 1000 + hp FF 91 car to market after its grand debut at CES in Las Vegas.
An electric car startup based in China has revealed an ambitious smart vehicle concept that it claims outperforms Tesla in terms of «digital power.»