5. Jia Yueting made new progress in his carmaking business.
On March 20th, Jia Yueting invested in an electric vehicle startup Faraday Future. He responded to the Xinhua News that the company’s factory in Hanford, California, officially started construction recently. Photographs disclosed There are already some workers and machinery equipment appearing in the factory.
In the future, Faraday has stated that it is advancing the production of the first production model FF91. At the supplier conference in February of this year, FF's main investor, founder Jia Yueting announced that FF received US$1.5 billion in financing to meet the pre-IPO requirements. Funding requirements, FF91 will also be delivered before the end of 2018. Earlier media reports said that FF 91's battery capacity is 130kwh, battery life is expected to reach 700km, 100km speedup is only 2.39 seconds, and the price may exceed 2 million yuan RMB.
Faraday was originally planning to build its own plant in Nevada. However, due to funding problems, it instead rented an existing factory in Hanford, California to speed up the mass production process. However, in December 2017, a news reporter from the city went to Faraday. In future visits to the Hanford factory in the United States, the factory was still in vacant condition, and it finally released a signal to start construction.
In addition to the start of the Hanford plant, Faraday's future affiliate Ruichi Smart Cars (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd. is also suspected of participating in an open tender for a land parcel in Nansha, Guangzhou. The announcement of the transfer issued by Guangzhou Nansha Land Resources and Planning Bureau official website shows The plot (number: 2018NGY-2) covers an area of 400,980 square meters, and has an auction starting price of 364.1 million yuan. In the buyer’s request, it is clearly stated that the “race winner” must introduce an international company within one month of the winning bid. First-class pure electric vehicle R & D and manufacturing level of pure electric vehicle assembly project'.
It is worth mentioning that since the end of last year, LeTV China announced that it would become Faraday's future China. After FF implemented the Sino-American dual home strategy, Faraday opened a recruitment plan in China in the future. Its WeChat public account has continuously launched five recruitment notices. The main locations of work are in Beijing and Shanghai, where the original LeTV Automotive Office sat on the ground. The positions involved in the chassis, electronics, interior and exterior trim, vehicle control, vehicle integration, electric drive and charging, battery system, trial production and other related professional Engineers also include manpower, finance, government affairs, law, administration, etc.