Faraday Future

The Pikes Peak International Hillclimb is a rare opportunity to compare a range of electric and internal combustion racers on the same course. Although battery-powered entrants have impressed in recent years, they were few and far between this time round, making 2017 a win for old-school technology.

Fledgling electric vehicle maker Faraday Future will be running a Beta development FF 91 ("nine one") in the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb as the first in a series of public tests designed to help bring the production version of its all-electric SUV to market in 2018.

Dubuc Motors might not be taking on the mass market, but you can add it to the list of electric upstarts. Based in Quebec, Dubuc has worked to create a modern sports car with a smart powertrain and eye-catching body. New Atlas spoke with Mario Dubuc and Mike Kakogiannakis about their project.

After a torturous 90-minute CES launch, we now have details on Faraday Future's first production car, the FF91. Zero to 60 in 2.39 seconds, 1050 hp, more torque than a Mack truck, 130 kilowatt-hours of battery, 500 mile per hour charging and a driverless valet mode make this the new EV king.

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.

2016 was a big year for the electric vehicle. It saw the much-anticipated Tesla everyman EV, production car-previewing EV concepts from major manufacturers, increased driving ranges, new lightning-quick electric supercars, and a few EV world records.

If the recent pace of development at Faraday Future is anything to go by, the electric car startup will fare well when it competes in the Formula E championship for the first time next season. Faraday is to become the core technical partner and title sponsor of existing Formula E team Dragon Racing.

A few weeks ago, startup carmaker Faraday Future broke ground on a US$1 billion manufacturing facility in the US city of North Las Vegas, Nevada. The plant will be the company's first and will be used to build its planned line of connected electric vehicles (EVs).

Faraday Future has unveiled its single-seater FFZERO1 Concept vehicle. Billed as a test-bed for the company's future range of electric vehicles, the track car incorporates a new chassis design and claims to have a "sixth sense" that adapts to the driver's intentions and needs.​

Beyond having four wheels, Faraday Future's first vehicle may have very little in common with the average automobile on the streets today. At least that's what the California-based tech startup is promising as it drums up interest for an electric car it intends to launch in 2017.