Faraday Futures: Startup Promises Long-Range Electric Car In 2017 - Green Car Reports
DON'T MISS: Two Tesla Execs Leave Before 2012 Model S Launch (Jan 2012). The company--which suggests you call it FF for short--says it will launch its battery-electric vehicle sometime during 2017. The company's vice president of product research... he's one of the Group Lotus alumni, having spent 10 years there ending in 2005. He also worked at Tesla as director of vehicle and chassis engineering from January 2010 to January 2012, departing a few months before production of the Model S began. Faraday says it is targeting the highest energy density and specific vehicle energy on the market with its battery pack. That would likely take the total energy capacity over 100 kilowatt-hours, given Tesla's Friday announcement of a 90-kWh pack option for its Model S sedan. FF plans to use a single pack design, smaller than current large packs to provide greater crumple zones, but will offer different pack capacities inside this single form factor. Other specifics--cells grouped into modules, replaceable cells or modules, safety measures to prevent any short in a faulty cell from propagating to adjacent cells--have been seen before in various other makers' pack designs. Source: www.greencarreports.com
