Faraday Future Car CES
Motor Trend gets an inside look at the Faraday Future car before it's revealed at the CES auto show in LAs Vegas in the this video that features interviews with the designer and the engineer of the FF concept car.
Transcript
00:00 (upbeat music)
00:02 - Richard Kim, Head of Design at Faraday Future.
00:06 - Nick Sampson here from Faraday Future at Las Vegas
00:10 and preparing for our CS launch of a concept vehicle
00:15 we're gonna be showing this evening.
00:16 - It started just as a simple sketch
00:18 that Nick Sampson saw on my desk.
00:20 - I was walking around one evening,
00:22 I saw a picture on a desk in Richard's design studio.
00:25 - He said, "Hey, this crazy high-performance race car
00:29 "could easily fit on our platform technology."
00:33 So we said, "Okay, then let's do it."
00:35 - And on this week, we saw the opportunity
00:37 to be able to do things that you can't do
00:39 in a gasoline-engined high-performance car.
00:42 Many people think of electric vehicles
00:43 as being dull and boring,
00:45 but anybody who's driven a Tesla knows that's not the case.
00:47 And anybody who can see that if we took everything
00:50 to the extreme and produced
00:52 the most incredible electric vehicle,
00:55 it would be better than most gasoline-high-performance cars.
00:58 It would be more exciting, more exhilarating.
01:00 The power delivery of four electric motors
01:02 would be incredible, much better than you'd get
01:03 from any V8 or V12 engine.
01:06 A seamless, constant acceleration,
01:08 high-performance, 200 miles an hour plus,
01:11 naught to 16, two to three seconds,
01:14 given by the lightweight structure
01:16 and the fantastic power of the batteries
01:19 and the four motors.
01:21 - This project went super fast.
01:23 Everything we're doing is really fast
01:25 because of our state-of-the-art,
01:29 progressive, all-digital design process.
01:32 This is nights and weekends.
01:34 We had our, let's say, our day job,
01:36 which is our first production car,
01:39 and this became the little side project.
01:42 We're very proud of these two aero tunnels.
01:44 If you look directly through the front or rear of the car,
01:48 and of course, provide cooling for the battery,
01:52 reduce drag, and we think it's a really cool design feature.
01:56 - One of the things with this vehicle
01:58 that we set out to do was on the engineering side,
02:00 we were able to capitalize on the four-motor layout
02:04 and the electric drive system and the electronic controls.
02:07 We can get dynamics of this vehicle
02:09 that are achievable in nothing else in any other way.
02:12 We can provide torque, positively and negatively,
02:15 exactly the right amount at each wheel.
02:17 We can make this car so controllable
02:19 that it can be faster, quicker, and more efficient
02:21 than anything that's out there today.
02:23 - We wanted to create something that, of course,
02:26 was user-friendly, easy to operate,
02:31 has automated and autonomous features,
02:35 but at first glance, we wanted to make sure
02:38 that this car still had the irrational desire to have it.
02:42 It should be beautiful and it should be sexy.
02:46 - We could make a car that can do short duration,
02:49 fast runs, the equivalent of a drag race
02:51 or a high-speed test.
02:54 We could put a long-range battery in it
02:55 to do endurance-type racing.
02:57 We can do a number of different things
02:58 because of the modular architecture of our platform,
03:01 which has given us great opportunities,
03:03 not just for this car, but for our production cars
03:05 moving into the future.
03:06 (upbeat music)
03:09 (upbeat music)