Faraday Future could be both a Tesla-killer and an Uber-killer

The latest video from Faraday Future, the secretive electric car company, has gone so far as to let slip a look at (what might be) a silhouette of one of its to-be-revealed vehicles. The clip is bouncy — but aside from showing millennials relaxing, checking out a movie and shopping in the rain, there wasn’t much for those watching to see what FF plans to put on the road. However, there is a question among the dialogue that asks “What if you didn’t so much own a car, as use one, whenever you need it.” That could be a reference to the promise of an autonomous vehicle. FF Senior Vice President and co-founder Nick Sampson has said the Faraday plan involves “a car that, perhaps, just turns up, as you need it…you can just call it up on your phone, or pre-book it, or it’ll just know that you need it because you’re scheduled to go somewhere,” during a November interview with The Verge. We do know they have a creative team of designers that have worked at well-known luxury car companies. And that Nevada representatives approved a $335 million incentive package to bring Faraday Future’s planned billion-dollar factory to Las Vegas. The company has made it clear it expects to have cars on the road in 2017. Back in July 2015, Motortrend wrote the FF battery will be a multi-cell solution like what fellow e-car company Tesla uses but offer 15 percent higher energy than what the Tesla Model S provides.