According to foreign media reports, sources and media reports confirm that two start-ups have made inroads into the EV industry, noting in particular that there are quite a number of Faraday's departing senior executives and former employees of the two newly formed companies.
The news came a month after the departure of executives, including Faraday's future chief financial officer Stefan Krause, who had left the company in October, Month Jalopnik first news of his resignation.
According to the sources, the start-up Indi EV was set up this fall with the support of Chinese entrepreneurs, and comments from LinkedIn show that there are many former Faraday left-ups in the company. Faraday's Future Predecessor Design Operations and Model Development Director Steve Osario is the chief operating officer of Indi EV and Steven Offutt, Faraday's future predecessor senior manager, is now head of manufacturing at Indi EV.
According to a paper presented to the State Secretary of California, the Indi EV was launched in August of this year and last week the company said in a brief paper that the company is primarily engaged in the design and manufacturing of electric vehicles. Its website lists some of the company's positions List, and portrayed the company as having considerable independence.
The company profile on its Web site states: Indi EV is a small team of automotive designers, engineers and manufacturers that we want to unite to get out of the grip of auto giants and OEMs. We are all together and focused on developing one New ways to get EVs to the side of everyday consumers, and we believe EVs will have more advanced manufacturing and ownership solutions in the future. The world will no longer rely on several automaker giants. Instead, it will Turn to independent brands that adapt quickly to new technologies and keep moving forward.
But Indi EV did not respond to emails from Jalopnik, a car media company.
In addition, according to Electrek, Klaus apparently has already started a new venture with the founding of EVELOZCITY, a start-up.
Sources said he had been able to use his own foundations to raise funds for the future of Faraday, but his disagreement with Jia Yunting led to the failure of fundraising.
It is reported that, due to the financial role of Klaus Jupiter than the higher the leadership position now, sources claim that Faraday executives and several former executives and executives are following Klaus to join EVELOZCITY, And said there are more people to join in.
EVELOZCITY's website is really small, with a single worklist and a 'vision' that aims to 'design, develop and deliver the most competitive, capable and connected clean transportation equipment for the next generation'.
It sounds a lot like the company that Faraday spun off in the future, and the e-mail the media sent to EVELOZCITY did not get a response.
Electrek reports that Faraday's future chief designer, Richard Kim, is joining the startup.
The WHOIS search shows that the startup's website was created in recent weeks and records filed with the Delaware corporate division show the company was established on November 7, about three weeks after Klaus left Faraday's future.