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Posted on 01/05/2016 6:58:21 AM PST by ctdonath2
Faraday Future - the California-based electric car company that's been operating in stealth mode for the past year and a half - made its first big splash on the eve of CES this week with the unveiling of the FFZERO1, a high-performance concept car. The sinewy machine looks more appropriate for a race track than a city street thanks to a claimed 1,000 horsepower, a 0-60 time under three seconds, and a top speed over 200 miles per hour. Of course, those are all purely theoretical numbers since this is just a concept, though the company teases that it could see "limited production." ...
Realistically, the FFZERO1 is not going to be Faraday Future's first production car - instead, they're using it to show off the potential that Faraday sees in its upcoming billion-dollar Nevada factory. The concept's underlying platform, which it calls the Variable Platform Architecture, is touted as being highly customizable.
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The biggest failing of the presentation IMHO is a complete lack of core specifications: cost, range, and charge time.
Yeah but can I drive 1200 mi/day without a recharge?
1,000 HP, 0-60 under 3 seconds, over 200 mph.
Battery life 49 seconds?
Yep. Can I drive it 350 miles between recharges, regardless of weather? Can I recharge it in less than 10 minutes?
Doubtful, but you aren’t the target audience either. You also can’t haul a ton of gravel in a Corvette, but people still buy them
Chinese.
What 1,000 horsepower combustion engine car has a 1,200 mile range?
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“What 1,000 horsepower combustion engine car has a 1,200 mile range?”
This is what an average combustion engine car can drive in a day with a couple of 10 minute stops to refuel. No battery powered electric motor vehicle can drive 1,200 miles in a day since recharge of batteries will take several hours.
You could build a diesel that would do that but you don’t need to as there are plenty of fuel stops to fill your tank.
You consider a 1,000 Hp sports car “average”?
Gassing up takes a piddling amount of time.
Recharging has a finite minimum time without overheating and melting things.
A battery car is a battery car and is only as good as the battery
An electric dragster is not that far out of the concept I mean it only has to go a quarter mile
Swap-able batteries would help solve the recharge speed problem but the battery packs would have to be interchangeable between different makes and models. And heavy machinery would be needed to do the swap since the batteries will weigh hundreds of pounds.
Well, look on the bright side.
You won't have to use the brakes much. Just as you get to speed, you run out of power.
Of course it will be a good thing that you won't need to use the brakes...you won't have any power to use them anyway.
No,
But I do consider the ability to drive a vehicle 1200 miles in a single day average. The best all electric vehicle can do is 250 miles in a day. That is during the day, no lights, no air conditioner or heater at speed of 30mph. Change any of these variables and the top range is 100 miles.
Can you drive 24 hours a day at 50 MPH, or even 16 hours at 75?
I think not. Even if you can, why would you?
The “real point” of showing off the design of a car that doesn’t exist is to divert attention from the fact that their chief battery designer just quit. Keep in mind that this is a Chinese company that has, thus far, produced nothing but press releases.
1,000 HP, 0-60 under 3 seconds, over 200 mph.
Battery life 49 seconds?..............
You just get up to 60 and coast anywhere around town no need to put you foot to the metal for more than 3 sec at a time. ;)
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