What We Know About Faraday Future's 1035 Horsepower Electric FF 91

What We Know About Faraday Future’s 1035 Horsepower Electric FF 91

By Bradley Brownell - January 11, 2017

In case you have not yet seen Faraday Future’s CES 2017 presentation from Tuesday, we’ve included the entire video above. We’ll go ahead and save you the trouble, however, as it is long, a bit on the boring side. You are forced to sit through more than 21 minutes of discussion before the car even makes an appearance. Once it does appear, the car shows off its LIDAR-assisted ability to park itself, albeit quite slowly and with an unnecessary three-point turn. The presentation then shows off a handful of quick cars, including direct electric competition from Tesla, accelerating across the stage before the FF 91 does the same. It does seem to move quite quickly, but without a direct one-to-one comparison on the same track at the same time, it’s difficult to say whether it actually is quicker.

Faraday Future claims that their FF-91 EV will produce over one thousand horsepower from a pair of electric motors (one front and one rear), including rear-wheel steering and rear torque vectoring. With that power comes a claimed 2.39-second 0-60 sprint, which is conspicuously one-hundredth of a second quicker than a Tesla P100D’s claimed 2.40-second run. The FF 91 has a rack of batteries mounted low in the chassis, totaling 130kWh of power capacity, which is claimed to give a range of about 380 miles. From a 240V socket, the FF 91 will supposedly charge to full capacity in about 9 hours. We also know that the FF 91 is available for pre-order with a $5000 refundable deposit, and they claim a production schedule beginning sometime in 2018.

The most important thing here is what we don’t know. After an hour and twenty-minute presentation to hundreds of gathered attendees and thousands watching the live stream online, Faraday did not mention anything close to a price point, or even who they see as competition for this vehicle. The presentation pitted the FF-91 seemingly against the world, with wild comparisons to Ferrari’s 488, the Mercedes-Maybach S600, as well as Bentley’s Bentayga, and Continental Flying Spur sedan, not to mention Tesla’s Models S and X. The other thing we still need to find out about the FF-91? Whether or not it will ever make production.