There's fast, and there's electric fast. Faraday Future is teasing its upcoming streetcar with a video showing a disguised prototype easily walking away from a Bentley, a Ferrari and even a Tesla P100D in Ludicrous mode on the drag strip.
The "if Apple made a Batmobile" FFZERO1 might be one wild looking electric supercar concept, but the platform it's built on might be the most outrageous part about it. A 1,000-horsepower lithium-electric powertrain capable of mind-bending acceleration that's planned as the base for the entire Faraday Future range.
As we move towards the reveal of Faraday Future's first real-world consumer model in about a month's time at CES, the company is stirring the pot to drum up some anticipation.
A new video just released shows a heavily disguised FF streetcar demolishing a bunch of very fast cars in acceleration testing. Beating a Bentley Bentayaga and Ferrari 488 GTB should be no sweat for a quick electric, but the Tesla Model X P100D, another all-electric beast, makes for some pretty hefty competition in the acceleration stakes with its ability to sprint from 0-60 mph (96.5 km/h) in 2.9 seconds. The Faraday beats it cleanly.
That kind of acceleration is a vulgar and unnecessary display of power that forces strange sounds out of passengers and serves very little practical purpose. Excellent. And the team believes the powertrain's got more in it yet, so they're working to make it even faster.
We look forward to seeing the production car in January.
Source: Faraday Future
The FF01 at CES 2016 was just a concept car but they are supposed to unveil their production design at CES 2017 scheduled for Jan 5-8. I'm not really digging the design of the test mule either but a lot of companies do a bunch of stuff to obfuscate the vehicle design under the mule and it could just be because of that.
The X accelerates absurdly fast for an SUV. 4 cylinder SUV's are in the ballpark of 9 or 10 second 0-60 times. My 4runner is 270 HP and has a 7.7 0-60 and the P100D X is 2.8 seconds.
It's shocking what it takes to shave almost 5 seconds off the 0-60 time of a nearly 300 HP vehicle. If FF is beating that time with what appears to be an even larger vehicle the costs of the vehicle would almost have to be into the stratosphere.
It should be super useful when you want to take for family of 8 out for a day of drag racing super sport motorcycles and hypercars. I can't wait to see a youtube video of one of these beasts towing a Mustang GT or something over the 1/4 mile faster than one can finish under its own power.