Recently, with Evergrande Faraday's future smart car group unveiled, Evergrande announced that Faraday's first model, FF91, will be mass-produced in the first quarter of 2019. The first batch production of FF91 also caused market discussion and speculation. In this regard, Faraday's future aspects of Sina Finance said that because of the company's business planning, it is not convenient to disclose. Other industry insiders believe that FF91 should not be overpriced.
Faraday will not be able to disclose the quantity of mass production in the future.
For the specific quantity of FF91 first batch production in the first quarter of next year, Faraday and Evergrande Group did not give Sina Finance a clear answer. Faraday’s future aspect to Sina Finance said, 'At present, the company is in a tight and orderly manner for the amount of vehicles according to the scheduled plan. Production and development work. Due to the core issues related to the company's business strategy planning, it is not convenient to disclose it at present.
In January 2017, Faraday announced that the first batch of the model was limited to 300 units on the release of FF91. The number of reservations on the official website exceeded 64,000. However, the number of reservations for the 64,000 included an 'ordinary appointment' that does not require a deposit. And the 'priority appointment' that requires a $5,000 deposit, Faraday has not announced the exact number of these two types of appointments, so it is unclear how many appointments can be converted into actual orders.
A new energy auto industry insider told Sina Finance that there must be two conditions for the product to truly achieve the SOP (Start of Production) status. First, the first is that the product's performance indicators meet the design requirements. It is the most basic. The second is that various production conditions have been confirmed to meet the mass production, including the relevant parts suppliers.
In the rim, the number of productions is usually 50 or more, which is called 'production,' but the new energy vehicle field does not seem to be particular: In May this year, after the first production car ES8 went offline five months later, it was made in China. Electric car Weilai Automobile delivered 10 vehicles to the first batch of users; in July 2017, Tesla released the first Volkswagen Model 3, the first batch of 30 vehicles.
Independent car consultant Zhang Xiang pointed out to Sina Finance that the industry generally believes that cars from the official production line can be called mass production vehicles. The domestic production of electric vehicles has Weilai, Xiaopeng, Yundu, and so on; A car that is laid off from a temporary assembly line or hand-built cannot be called a production car.
In mid-July this year, Faraday announced that its Hanford plant in central California had obtained an official temporary entry permit. At the end of July, the first FF 91 body-in-white arrived at the Hanford factory, and FF announced the start of the vehicle assembly, and said all The technology will be completed at the Hanford plant by December of this year.
In the report of the end of July this year, the US car review blog Jalopnik pointed out that there is news that Faraday has submitted a vehicle identification code file to the US National Highway High Speed Traffic Safety Department, which means that Faraday will be in the next 60 days. Will produce at least one whole vehicle.
Pricing rumors of 'Tesla killer'
The FF 91's nickname is 'Tesla Killer', and is titled 'the world's most advanced electric car', positioning the high-end. The outside is considered to be the model of the Tesla car model Model S P100D:
According to public information, the FF 91 uses a VPA variable electric drive chassis with a maximum power of 783 kW (kWh); an acceleration of 2.39 seconds per 100 km and a horsepower of 1,050 horsepower; a 130 kWh super-capacity battery with a cruising range of over 700 km, most of which is data Both surpassed the Tesla Model S P100D. In the 2017 top race Pikes Peak Rally, the FF91 broke the global pure electric vehicle record with a score of more than 20 seconds beyond the Tesla ModelS.
Wellrek, a well-known American automotive professional media, once pointed out that despite the benchmark Model S, the size of the FF91 is closer to Tesla's SUV model X. According to its body length and width (5250/2283/1598mm), it can be Think of it as a crossover or SUV.
In terms of pricing, the market generally predicts that the FF 91 will sell for between $100,000 and $300,000, which exceeds the current price of the Model S P100D in the US market of $113,500, and the price of the Tesla Model X 90 D is $81,400. .
For the market value of FF91, Zhang Xiang said that FF91 has appeared at the CES show in the United States three times, but because of the funding problem has not been energy production, as time goes by, the value of FF91 brand is declining. At the same time, he believes that if FF91 is in China The price is about 2 million yuan, the price is too high. He cited the K50 of the domestic electric sports car that was listed recently. The car is priced at 680,000 but the market is currently bleak.
Foreign media has similar concerns. Previously, the market price of FF91 with a price range of 100,000-300,000 US dollars, Electrek editor Fred Lambert has analyzed that if the model is priced in the low range of the above range, it is expected to get good Market feedback ('find a decent market in the low tens of thousands of units'), but if the pricing is in the high price range, the outlook is ambiguous.