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Here it is then, folks: the very first production" car from new electric car company Faraday Future. Unveiled last night at the Consumer Electronics Show, it"s called the FF 91" (pronounced nine one we"re told), and is quite mad at least on paper. Not least because we"re promised 1,050bhp and a 0-60mph time any self-respecting hypercar would proudly trumpet.That number is 2.39 seconds. Yep, 0-60mph in 2.39s. From an electric family car. Interest, consider yourself very much piqued. What Faraday tells us - and following on from the reveal of its concept hypercar last year - is that this new production vehicle will sit on a flexible chassis (dubbed Variable Platform Architecture). Senior VP and R&D chief Nick Sampson told TG.com last year that this platform is both adjustable and variable, allowing it to spawn a wider range of cars. It can be stretched (it"s made from bonded aluminium), while the batteries are laid out in strings", meaning "it"s very easy to swap and change the number of strings without re-engineering the entire battery pack".It"s got a multi-motor" setup enabling rear-wheel torque vectoring (we"re not told if it"s the four-motor setup as seen on last year"s concept hypercar, though four-wheel-drive is touted as being available on this platform), rear-wheel-steering, and a 130kWh battery pack. Tesla"s new Model S and Model X P100D models of course, feature a 100kWh battery.Range? Faraday Future claims over 435 miles (700km NEDC est, 378 miles EPA est) thanks to that battery density, engineered in collaboration with LG Chem. A home charger allows 50 per cent recharge in 4.5 hours.Faraday Future tells TopGear.com: "We"re not taking on Tesla"The design you can see with your own eyes, but we can"t see Tesla losing any sleep. Still, it"s interesting enough, is longer and wider than a Model X, and features "automatic and independently" opening doors. Ah, independently opening doors, surely a world first?
Date written: 4 Jan 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 6270
Here it is then, folks: the very first production" car from new electric car company Faraday Future. Unveiled last night at the Consumer Electronics Show, it"s called the FF 91" (pronounced nine one we"re told), and is quite mad at least on paper. Not least because we"re promised 1,050bhp and a 0-60mph time any self-respecting hypercar would proudly trumpet.That number is 2.39 seconds. Yep, 0-60mph in 2.39s. From an electric family car. Interest, consider yourself very much piqued. What Faraday tells us - and following on from the reveal of its concept hypercar last year - is that this new production vehicle will sit on a flexible chassis (dubbed Variable Platform Architecture). Senior VP and R&D chief Nick Sampson told TG.com last year that this platform is both adjustable and variable, allowing it to spawn a wider range of cars. It can be stretched (it"s made from bonded aluminium), while the batteries are laid out in strings", meaning "it"s very easy to swap and change the number of strings without re-engineering the entire battery pack".It"s got a multi-motor" setup enabling rear-wheel torque vectoring (we"re not told if it"s the four-motor setup as seen on last year"s concept hypercar, though four-wheel-drive is touted as being available on this platform), rear-wheel-steering, and a 130kWh battery pack. Tesla"s new Model S and Model X P100D models of course, feature a 100kWh battery.Range? Faraday Future claims over 435 miles (700km NEDC est, 378 miles EPA est) thanks to that battery density, engineered in collaboration with LG Chem. A home charger allows 50 per cent recharge in 4.5 hours.Faraday Future tells TopGear.com: "We"re not taking on Tesla"The design you can see with your own eyes, but we can"t see Tesla losing any sleep. Still, it"s interesting enough, is longer and wider than a Model X, and features "automatic and independently" opening doors. Ah, independently opening doors, surely a world first?
Date written: 4 Jan 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 6270
