If you’re going to build a new electric car that packs in new technology, breaks all the rules of the traditional engine and points boldly to the future, you should design it to look the part. Build a rocket. Create a real life Batmobile. Build a damn spaceship.
That’s what Faraday Future brought to CES 2016 with the FFZERO1 Electric Concept Car. The Silicon Valley-based electric mobility company’s experimental vehicle is every bit the flying car the 1950s said we’d be driving by now.
The FFZERO1 arrives with the experimental automaker’s proprietary engineering platform, developed in strategic cooperation with Letv, a global technology company.
This is the company’s first concept showpiece, and it’s designed to be a high performance electric vehicle built on a modular engineering system optimized for electric vehicles. When Faraday Future (FF) starts building cars for sale, they’ll be put together on the same engineering system.
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When it all comes together, the FFZERO1 can indeed fly. It has all the specs of an elite supercar, including four Quad Core Motors that produces more than 1,000 horsepower. This electric nightmare will do 0-60 in less than three seconds and promises a top speed of more than 200 mph.
Since the FFZERO1 made its debut at CES 2016, it’s only right and proper that the car interact with a smartphone app allowing for such features as remote start, feature personalization and real time analytics.
Since this is a concept car and won’t see full production in its current form, whatever Faraday Future brings to the streets will look different from this futuristic beauty. However, since I’ve always found the Teslas that gearhead greenies seem to fawn over at every opportunity to be outwardly dull and under-styled. Faraday Future will never face such a criticism if they build anything like this.
If electric cars really are the future, let that future look like the FFZERO1.
