Separately, Jia is also the main investor in the US
electric car startup Faraday Future.
At this year's CES, troubled
electric car startup Faraday Future presented itself as the company that would usher in «the next generation of sustainable luxury mobility.»
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.
Perpetually troubled
electric car startup Faraday Future filed a lawsuit on Monday against the...
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.
It wasn't anywhere close to its splashy and controversial reveal at last year's Consumer Electronics Show, but
electric car startup Faraday Future still showed up this year's tech conference.
The saga of would - be world - beater
electric car startup Faraday Future got weirder than usual this...
The saga of would - be world - beater
electric car startup Faraday Future got weirder than usual this week, and this evening it escalated further.
Among the many mysteries surrounding cash - strapped
electric car startup Faraday Future is where it...
As we've covered extensively over the past few months, Chinese - backed
electric car startup Faraday Future is running into financial problems, most recently including suppliers allegedly not getting paid and an apparent surprise $ 300 million hole.
On Tuesday,
electric car startup Faraday Future's main financier — the Chinese tech conglomerate LeEco — announced a significant round of layoffs at its US operations.
If recent reports are accurate,
electric car startup Faraday Future recently netted a $ 1 billion investment and, in turn, named Chinese tech entrepreneur Jia Yueting its CEO.
On Tuesday,
electric car startup Faraday Future's main financier — the Chinese tech conglomerate...
Things are going from bad to worse for
electric car startup Faraday Future.
Perpetually troubled
electric car startup Faraday Future filed a lawsuit on Monday against the company's former chief financial officer, Stefan Krause, alleging that he stole a number of trade secrets and improperly solicited employees to join him at a new startup.
Electric car startup Faraday Future is closing out 2017 in a very precarious position, something The Verge captures in a spellbinding story today on the company's financial state.
Late last month, the seemingly incapable - of - escaping - trouble
electric car startup Faraday Future filed a lawsuit against a new rival helmed by its former chief financial officer, Stefan Krause.
Last night,
electric car startup Faraday Future served up the wild FFZERO1 concept as «the most extreme iteration of what it can build» with a barrage of buzzwords that left most people wondering what the hell was actually going on.
A second founding executive has left ailing
electric car startup Faraday Future.
Secretive
electric car startup Faraday Future yesterday announced that it had partnered with LG...
Secretive
electric car startup Faraday Future may have accidentally leaked photos of its much anticipated concept car, which were spotted by Car and Driver.
Electric car startup Faraday Future has remained relatively quiet since its splashy debut at CES 2017 earlier this year.
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.
Not exact matches
Today more than a dozen Chinese - backed manufacturers (many of them American
startups that now have Chinese owners) are tripping over one another to promote their
electric cars and acceleration times;
Faraday Future, Karma Automotive, NextEV, and Future Mobility are but a few.
As Business Insider's Bryan Logan explained, «For all the attention that the
electric -
car startup Faraday Future has...
Faraday Future, the
electric -
car startup that has been pegged over the last year as a «potential Tesla killer,» still remains much of a mystery to the public.
As Business Insider's Bryan Logan explained, «For all the attention that the
electric -
car startup Faraday Future has gotten in the past year, very little is still known about the company.»
Five months after announcing its partnership with the Dragon Racing team, American
electric vehicle
startup Faraday Future has released the specs for its Formula E race
car.
Chinese - backed
startup Faraday Future stormed into CES 2016 with a flashy concept
car and plans to build a $ 1 billion
electric -
car factory in North Las Vegas, all without saying much about the actual
cars it plans to build.
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.
Troubled EV
startup Faraday Future scrounged up new funding at the end of 2017, and even made a surreptitious appearance at CES, wooing CNET and a few paid YouTube influencers with the intoxicating speed of its
electric car.
In December, amid mounting concerns about the viability of the
electric -
car startup Faraday Future, Nevada's governor and the mayor of the city of North Las Vegas slammed the
car company's naysayers, saying taxpayers in the state are «fully - protected» from the potential ramifications a $ 335 million incentive deal for...
In December, amid mounting concerns about the viability of the
electric -
car startup Faraday Future, Nevada's governor and the mayor of the city of North Las Vegas slammed the
car company's naysayers, saying taxpayers in the state are «fully - protected» from the potential ramifications a $ 335 million incentive deal for FF if it failed to spend $ 1 billion to construct a factory in North Las Vegas.
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.
But according to several former
Faraday employees, the
electric car startup — incorporated in Gardena, California — operates in practice as a branch of Jia's Chinese company LeEco, sharing resources.
LOS ANGELES — A construction firm working on
Faraday Future's $ 1 billion Nevada factory has warned the
electric -
car startup that it could face a work stoppage over millions of dollars in unpaid bills, raising questions about
Faraday's financial condition.
Faraday Future Inc., the
electric -
car startup backed by billionaire Jia Yueting, hired Porter Harris from Space Exploration Technologies before he left the company.
The
startup abandoned a plan this summer for a proposed $ 1 billion factory in Nevada, but
Faraday says it still aims to launch production of its
electric autonomous
car, the FF 91, in 2018.
LeEco is partnered with the US - based automotive company
Faraday Future, a
startup that wants to build
electric self - driving
cars.
Ford plans to announce the joint - venture January 5th at the Consumer Electronics Show, where the
startup autonomous -
electric automaker
Faraday Future also plans to display its first concept
car.
It's incredibly difficult to translate just how bad of a year it was for
Faraday Future, which is financially backed by Chinese billionaire Jia Yueting with connections to LeEco, another
electric vehicle
startup under the umbrella of Yueting's media empire LeTV, which also confusingly had its LeSee concept
car designed by the
Faraday Future team.
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.
Speaking with Mattiacci, Jia said he intended for
Faraday to use the forthcoming 2017 CES conference in January to launch the
startup's own
electric car.
SAN FRANCISCO —
Faraday Future, the California
startup that set out to dethrone Tesla in the
electric -
car business with ambitious plans to build a self - driving, 1,000 - horsepower entertainment hub on wheels, is officially in trouble.
Kim is currently the head of design for the
startup electric car company
Faraday Future, and his design for the BMW i3 is often described as being «loft - like,» with its novel use of materials and a use of space that feels more architectural than conventional auto design.
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.
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.
He said he stepped down from his role as the chief executive officer of LeEco's main listed company to focus on
Faraday Future, the US - based
startup now trying to raise funds to bring the FF91
electric car to fruition.
We first learned about
Faraday Future in the summer of 2015 when Motor Trend reported that the
startup was poaching talent from Tesla to build its own
electric car.
It looks like Tesla is going to face a new competitor in the luxury
electric car market soon: an upcoming
startup called
Faraday Future.