Faraday Future Unveils Batmobile-Like EV Concept Car

Lookout out, Tesla: Faraday Future wowed CES audiences this calendar week with its electric concept racecar.

CES 2022 Bug Art What looks like the lovechild of a Corvette and the Batmobile, the FFZERO1 concept is a loftier-operation electrical vehicle, which FF says is congenital on a "modular engineering organisation" it volition use for all its vehicles going forward.

Dubbed the "Auto of Concepts," FF said its vehicle includes "adaptive personalization, seamless transfer of custom vehicle configurations, access to live images and real time data visualization." The smartphone is part of the driving experience, integrated into the steering column, letting it "serve as the interface between the vehicle and the driver in – and outside – of the machine."

The vehicle could be fully autonomous, FF said, "meeting its commuter at the rail and perhaps taking a few perfect laps on its ain to compare with, and improve upon, its driver'southward performance."

The concept automobile'southward interior features a single seat, which holds the commuter at a 45-caste bending to promote apportionment. In that location is also integrated caput and neck back up, also as oxygen and water supply fed through a helmet.

Faraday Future Interior

An aerodynamic exterior matches the make clean artful inside: FF'southward "UFO line" runs effectually the center of the vehicle, intended to give the sense that it is "not completely of this world." With four motors (one at each wheel), 1,000 horsepower, zero-to-60 acceleration in under 3 seconds, and a top speed in a higher place 200 mph, the FFZERO1 may also be an unidentified flying object on the racetrack.

"The FFZERO1 Concept is an amplified version of the pattern and engineering science philosophies informing FF'southward forthcoming product vehicles," Richard Kim, Futur Faraday's head of design, said in a statement. "This projection liberated our designers and inspired new approaches for vehicle forms, proportions and packaging that nosotros can apply to our upcoming production models."

One time thought to be a front for Apple's automotive project, the California-based, Chinese-backed Faraday Future last month settled on a location in Northward Las Vegas for a $i billion investment in a new manufacturing site. The three-million-square-foot state-of-the-art, environmentally witting manufacturing facility will ultimately employ 4,500 people.