Tesla finally has competition: Faraday Future FF91 – Expansion MX

LAS VEGAS (Expansion) –

Followed by the eyes of close to 600 attendees, the stage accelerated one-to-one, a Bentley, a Ferrari, a Model S Tesla and the new electric Faraday’s Future FF91; and although the roar of the engines of Bentley and Ferrari lifted the spirits of the present, the battle speed was between the silent electric. The difference between the two was only two thousandths of a second.

After watching them go, on the screen of the stage, the sensors showed the acceleration of both: Tesla Model S, from zero to 60 miles per hour in 2.5 seconds. FF91 from zero to 60 miles per hour in 2.3 seconds.

"we’re Not a car company, we are a technology-formatting the future", said Nick Sampson, vice president and director of engineering Faraday’s Future during the presentation.

But although the speed was one of the central axes of the presentation, Sampson, emphasized that the movement capability of the car is just one of the verticals that seek to exploit, for the promise of "formatting the future of automotive," the firm with just two years in the market, is to compete in massive form in the category of smart cars and electric, to the pair of Tesla and other automakers that have been migrated to this sector.

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Sampson, the technology of more than 30 sensors in the car, and the integration of two modems, and various antennas that make it a hotspot to connect to the internet and connect to other devices, is what makes this car different.

"perhaps not even be seen as a self, but as something else," he said.

Some of the features of the car are its connectivity, the doors that open automatically with just a touch, a range of battery that allows you to travel up to 700 miles with a load and its sensors that allow it to park by itself.

"Never will have to worry about finding parking," said Sampson while he was performing a demonstration of the parking smart live. Once the auto navigate only by the place, found a space and made the maneuvers relevant, it sends a notification to the smartphone of the person to tell you that it is already static and waiting.

Although the first demonstration started clapping towards the end of the same, we tried to test it again, but this time without success, to which executives responded that by being his debut, the FF91 was a little loose.

The new auto technology, which already operates in 36 countries and has 1,940 patents, may be reserved through the website of the company online with a deposit, refundable at 100%, $ 5,000. The models come on the market in 2018, though it only produced 300 units.

The promise of Faraday Future is to convert the car into an intelligent computer and make obsolete the emotions and toxic accidents in the future, but the limited manufacturing capacity of the firm puts it at a disadvantage to play with the competition; however, in execution it could match to what you currently offer others such as Tesla, the Bolt EV General Motors, shown for the first time at CES 2016.