Faraday's future came with new financing rumors.
According to a report by a U.S. business insider, according to sources close to the FF business deal, FF has finalized a new injection of $ 1.5 billion in capital. The source did not reveal the identity of the investor but said This is an entity in Hong Kong.
According to the report, FF has received 550 million U.S. dollars from the newly finalized capital injection of 1.5 billion U.S. dollars. According to sources mentioned above, about 300 million U.S. dollars have already arrived at the beginning of December 2017 and were received earlier this month 250 million US dollars.The remaining 950 million US dollars depends on FF has not yet announced the project process.
In response, the surging news correspondent asked FF, but at the end of 2017, FF successfully raised funds, but many companies involved in the rumor publicly denied that the outside world has not been clear Whether FF has received new financing from outside, and who provided funding.
However, the surging news reporter learned from FF that Beijing will hold its first global supplier summit at the R & D headquarters of Gardena, California, on the morning of February 14 in Beijing.
The press release provided by FF states that nearly 200 participants from more than 100 supplier partners around the world participated in the event to promote the successful delivery of the FF91 FF FF1 production vehicle by the end of 2018.
According to the press release, the summit was attended by two suppliers, including Bosch, LG Chem, Fuji Industrial Technology Co., Ltd., Velodyne, supplier of laser radar, Ricardo of British automotive engineering company and Fanuc, one of the world's largest industrial robot manufacturers .
FF founder is also the founder of Music as Jia Yueting attended the supplier summit, and said FF91 is not just an electric car, it is a new species, but also a third Internet space.
PabloUcar, Vice President, FF Supply Chain, said: "The goal of this event was to get suppliers reshaped their confidence in our production plans and funding, and we've achieved that goal with the enthusiastic feedback we received. '
According to the press release, FF plans to deliver the first batch of FF91 at the Hanford plant in California, and plant-related developments will be unveiled at the end of the quarter.
DagReckhorn, FF senior vice president for global manufacturing, said the Hanford plant project is now on schedule and has now entered the design and licensing phase and is already in full preparation for the hiring process. As of February 1, the original tenant Has all been moved out and FF will finish construction and equipment related work by the end of the quarter and is working hard to deliver FF91 at the end of the year as originally planned.
FF quoted industry insiders as saying that the construction of the supplier system is a guarantee of the successful delivery of FF91 by the end of 2018. FF91 is benchmarking Bentley and Rolls-Royce for product performance, and FF said that it fully opened up during the summit R & D center, and arranged a number of business units and suppliers face-to-face seminars.
According to the U.S. commercial insider website, sources familiar with the FF product schedule said that FF even plans to launch the second model, FF81, for the Chinese market. Sources describe the FF81 as a smaller version of the FF91, which is expected to cost six Bit figures.It is unclear what the FF81 price is, but is expected to be officially unveiled at the upcoming Beijing Auto Show.