Faraday Future is one of a number of Chinese-backed carmakers hoping to challenge Tesla.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nFaraday Future was founded by Chinese businessman Jia Yueting in April 2014 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Its factory, dubbed the FF ieFactory California, is reportedly building the car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m excited to see the realization of our U.S-China dual-home market strategy take shape as we ship one of our latest vehicles to China for testing purposes,\u201d said Chen Xuefeng, Global CEO of Faraday Future. \u201cStay tuned as we prepare the Ultimate Intelligent TechLuxury FF 91 Futurist for the two largest global EV markets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But whether there are enough consumers to pay $180,000 on an unproven horse with shaky finances remains to be seen. With a growing number of conventional automakers with solid financial resources coming to market, Faraday\u2019s Future may be one of wishful thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Faraday Future announces it is testing the FF 91 Futurist, its first model in China. TheDetroitBureau.com takes a look at another American startup automaker with big dreams, and a huge MSRP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13752,"featured_media":220167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7,8,5,1608,2648,1347,9],"tags":[9759,8670,665,7110,9099],"make":[52],"post-state":[],"category_old":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13752"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238954"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238970,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238954\/revisions\/238970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238954"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=238954"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=238954"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=238954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}