NetEase has an exclusive screenshot of FF's internal letter showing that Faraday Future (FF) recently filed an arbitration petition and federal court litigation against former CFO Stefan Krause and former CTO Ulrich Kranz and their founding EVELOZCITY, respectively , Accusing him of illegally stealing a large number of Faraday Future's core business and technology secrets.
According to foreign media reports, the case attracted great attention because of FF and the currently controversial founder Jia Yunting, whose claims amount to billions of U.S. dollars.
This internal NetEase exclusive letter was revealed to have been indicted by the Western District Court for the District Court for the Central District of California (docket no. 2: 18-cv-00737); it was alleged that the key commercial secrets and core technologies that were stolen by FF Confidential involved in the hardware, hardware and software fields such as batteries, motors, electric control, VPA variable electric drive chassis architecture, artificial intelligence and car networking (IAI); FF insiders said to NetEase science and technology that these are all FF technology accumulated over the past 4 years The essence.
In addition, FF insiders said the former executives StefanKrause and UlrichKranz and founded EVELOZCITY company also allegedly hired FF, including senior management personnel, technical staff, including a number of staff, according to the complaint said that some of them were leaving FF had premeditated the illegal acquisition of FF core technology secrets for EVELOZCITY before; in addition, the company plans to develop a very similar model to the next mid-size car currently planned by FF, unfair competition with FF.
Insiders from FF said that Stefan Krause and Ulrich Kranz had always wanted to crowd out the founder of the company, Jia Yueting, during the FF's tenure, to spread the remarks that if Ji Yunting was unable to obtain financing at the company, he found that the plan could not succeed, Contact with investors to obtain investment in the establishment of a new company way and FF unfair competition.
Former CFO accused of stealing FF secret
Since 2017, FF has hired Stefan Krause, CFO of the former BMW Group and Deutsche Bank, as its corporate CFO and Ulrich Kranz, former head of i-series BMW Group, as its CTO. According to a FF insider, Stefan and Ulrich joined FF in just a few months Dismissed, with little or no contribution, did not have any substantial contribution or impact on the company's products and research and development.
FF has publicly released a statement in early November 2017, Stefan Krause and UlrichKranz were dismissed by FF, there is dereliction of duty, dereliction of duty or even suspected of illegal acts, the company is taking legal action.According to the reporter, it was precisely because Stefan Krause Inaction on financing has almost led FF to the verge of bankruptcy.
The lawsuit alleges that EVELOZCITY, founded by Stefan Krauze and Ulrich Kranz, constantly messed up FF employees and allegedly instructed several of them to illegally use the new company for stolen commercial secrets and key technical secrets from FF before leaving FF.
According to the person Netease technology, Stefan proposed to fight for CEO position, 'Lao Jia declined, Lao Jia looking for the CEO must be a product or technical experts and have the ideal of change.' The insiders said Stefan Attempts to control the company cost-effectively with individual investors failed when companies were in short supply. "When he discovered that FF and Lao Jia were so tough and his conspiracy was not successful, he actually set up another new company during FF's tenure, And suspected of stealing FF core technology.
The FF Insiders said the market needs healthy competition, but not necessarily the lack of professional ethics under the leadership of the company's existence, but also hope that FF's experience can also be a good wake-up to other start-ups, and jointly safeguard a good market surroundings.
FF was founded in 2014 and official news from FF shows that it has set up an R & D team of nearly 1,000 people and introduced the first FF 91. In 2009, Jade Pavilion delivered a high profile FF91 with a highlight of peak value Power 783kW (1050 hp), 0-96km / h acceleration time of 2.39s, compared with Tesla Model P100D 2.4s 0.01s faster.
However, a year later, FF91 did not mass production.
However, at 2018 CES, FF organized the Chinese media on the road test ride.