It Looks Like Faraday Future Will Soon Be A Thing Of The Past
Remember Faraday Future? The company that claimed it would be a Tesla rival as quickly as next year? The company we confidently predicted would get nowhere near its targets? Guess what. Faraday is looking increasingly like it has no future.
Not only have almost a dozen former employees spoken to The Verge to attack the company over its business practices and those of its chief financial backer, Jia Yueting, but now the tycoon has been placed on a Chinese government blacklist of credit defaulters. It seems he hasn’t been paying his debts, and we suspect the Chinese authorities are not people you really want to tick off.
Yueting reportedly has unpaid debts totalling about £53.6 million. Faraday Future, after technological gaffes at the seriously rapid FF91’s motor show appearances, seems to be collateral damage. Clearly, at the moment it has no money and can’t hope to finish the project. Yueting won’t be able to borrow more, either, after being placed on the blacklist.
This isn’t the first time Yueting has crossed the line financially. As recently as July 2017, a Chinese court froze over £139 million of his assets over unpaid interest on loans taken out for his tech conglomerate, LeEco.
As impressive as the FF91’s time at Pikes Peak was, we think we can pretty much forget about it ever making production until the company formally collapses and is bought out by someone who knows what they’re doing. We can imagine a few European firms who’d kill to get their hands on EV technology like that…
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I want this to happen to tesla
war is not over until Tesle follows.
Only electric car I’ll ever want.
RIP the fact most EV1s were crushed because they didn’t profit well…I’d rock one of these too!
If they made a Fairaday Z, I would be happy.
It’s been a looooong day, without you my friend…
Too soon.
I mean this is what would happen to Tesla if it weren’t for all the incentives it receives: THE FUTURE!
That’s why I said this over a year ago when they first announced a concept car
That’s exactly my view regarding these startups. Ever heard of the Spectre R45?
Does that mean he’s not coming on then?
Guess the Faraday Future is the Faraway Past,Crushed Hopes and Dreams edition.