The company is currently at around 100 employees, a group that includes Faraday Future's former design chief, vehicle line head,
vehicle engineering director, and head of interior and exterior design trim.
According to Roger Becker, Lotus's
vehicle engineering director, that's all the Evora has in common with the Elise.
Not exact matches
«It's the first patent out of many to come in all areas of
vehicle engineering,» Faraday senior
director of electric drive Silva Hiti told Inc. via an email.
Mike Coughlan, its
director of
vehicle design, departed for the Williams Formula 1 team in May, and
engineer Steve Hallam, who also has a F1 background, departed for a job in Australian V8 Supercars.
Team owner: Dietrich Mateschitz Team principal: Franz Tost Technical
director: James Key Team manager: Graham Watson Head of aerodynamics: Nicolo Petrucci Deputy head of aerodynamics: Jon Tomlinson Head of
vehicle performance: Laurent Mekies Chief designer: Luca Furbatto Chief mechanic: Corrado Cardinali Race
engineer (Max Verstappen): Race
engineer: (Carlos Sainz Jnr):
A statement signed by the managing
director of the company, Augustus Amegashie, said «the current issue at stake has to do with the impounding of
vehicles belonging to one of our sub-contractors,
Engineers & Planners.»
«Electric
vehicles will absolutely play a role in Jaguar Land Rover's future product portfolio and Formula E will give us a unique opportunity to further our development of electrification technologies,» Jaguar Land Rover group
engineering director Nick Rogers said in a statement.
«Congress locked in that the standards have to be based on these forty - year - old tests that have nothing to do with the way people drive,» says David Friedman, senior
engineer and deputy
director of
vehicles program for the Union of Concerned Scientists.
After all, as Land Rover Design
Director Gerry McGovern points out, the new
vehicle sheds the rigid, overly square, Germanic lines of its immediate predecessor, which was designed and
engineered under BMW ownership in the late 1990s and went on sale in America in 2002.
«It won't roll over until it reaches 53 degrees,» nonchalantly says Cameron Patterson, Bentley's
director of whole
vehicle engineering.
The new team of designers and
engineers will be led by Paul Newsome,
Director of Special
Vehicle Operations, who himself brings with him a wealth of F1 knowledge thanks to having worked at Williams Advanced Engineering.
McLaren
engineering design
director confirms that the British marque has a pure EV test mule, but that a production
vehicle is some time away
«Just as we paid obsessive attention to detail over the
engineering of every single component, we've exhaustively tested the F - PACE in the most challenging conditions to ensure that it will exceed the expectations of our customers around the world,» said Andrew Whyman,
vehicle program
director of Jaguar F - Pace.
According to
vehicle line
director and chief
engineer for North American small cars Jim Danahy, «Providing the option of a turbocharged engine to our non-stick driving Chevy customers allows us to offer everyone the thrill and power of a fuel - efficient Ecotec 1.4 L powerplant.
Managing
director James Platt said: «For a
vehicle of this size to pull a combined weight of more than 100 tonnes demonstrates real
engineering integrity.
In 2014, Wolfgang Ziebart, the then group
engineering director, hinted at JLR's electrification plans, predicting that the market for EVs was going to split into inner - city
vehicles and a «second or third car for a wealthy family».
Speaking ahead of the official world premiere at the New York International Auto Show, Land Rover Global Brand
Director John Edwards said: «The all - new Range Rover Sport is a
vehicle that has been designed and
engineered without compromise.
Tadge Juechter, chief
engineer and
vehicle line
director for Corvette, says there's more speed in the car.
«Providing the option of a turbocharged engine to our non-stick driving Chevy customers allows us to offer everyone the thrill and power of a fuel - efficient Ecotec 1.4 L powerplant,» said Jim Danahy,
vehicle line
director and
vehicle chief
engineer for North American small cars.
«We constantly strive to make the Corvette a better car on the road and the track,» says Tadge Juechter, Corvette
vehicle line
director and chief
engineer.
Commenting on the rating Kevin Stride,
vehicle line
director, Jaguar XE, XF, F - PACE said, «The XE and XF were
engineered without compromise: we placed just as much focus on safety as we did on dynamics, performance, refinement and efficiency, and our stringent in - house standards far exceed the requirements of legislative and consumer tests.
«The Colorado ZH2 is a terrific example of GM's
engineering and design skill in creating an off - road
vehicle relevant to a range of potential users,» said Charlie Freese, executive
director of GM Global Fuel Cell Activities.
In a recent article from Wired, Charlie Miller, security
engineer at Twitter, and Chris Valasek,
director of
vehicle safety research at IOActive, successfully hacked into a 2014 Jeep Cherokee and assumed control of the
vehicle's various functions, dramatically demonstrating the extreme vulnerabilities of the modern connected
vehicle.
says Tadge Juechter, Corvette
vehicle line
director and chief
engineer.
John Edwards, Jaguar Land Rover Special Operations Managing
Director, said: «SVO designers are embedded within the Land Rover team and have worked with our
engineers to unleash their own passion for adventure to create another truly desirable and versatile
vehicle in the Land Rover line - up.»
Norbert Krause,
director of VW's
engineering and environmental office, says VW may put the engine in other
vehicles.
They are only two examples of several key employees leaving Faraday Future over the last month, including their
director of
vehicle purchasing, technical lead for self - driving sensors, senior
engineering manager for chassis, technical program manager for digital products,
director of electrical
engineering and software, and more.
In 2010, he joined Tesla, where he served as the
director of
vehicle and chassis
engineering for two years.
In particular, Faraday names Richard Kim (former design exec), Sohel Merchant (former senior
director of
vehicle packaging), Bill Strickland (ex-
vehicle line
engineer), and Christoph Kuttner (former
director of interior and exterior trim).
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