Faraday Future has experienced its fair share of
struggles in the past year, but the company has completed the first
body-in-white for the FF 91 ahead of schedule. Built at the company’s new
production facility in California, the body-in-white is an important
accomplishment for the beleaguered automaker.
The FF 91 go into production later this year. Furthermore, if everything goes
according to plan, the first deliveries will begin in December. Getting back to the
body-in-white, Faraday Future says “several cutting-edge manufacturing
technologies” have been used for its construction. It has more than 1,500 self-piercing
rivets and utilizes “Flowform screw technology allowing an innovative
uni-directional joining process not possible with conventional sheetmetal
joining methods.”
Faraday Future hasn’t released details
specifications about the FF 91, but Bozi Tatarevic recently uncovered a VIN
decoder document that the company submitted to the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration. As Jalopnik noted, the document suggests there will be
five versions of FF 91 including a base model with two electric motors
producing a combined output of 716 hp. At the other end of
the spectrum, there will be a range-topping variant with three electric motors
and a combined output of 1074 hp.
While the model will only be offered with two
different outputs, it appears there will be three different battery packs. The
716 hp version of the crossover will be offered with all
three batteries, while the high-performance model will only be offered with the
largest two. Tatarevic estimates they will have a capacity of approximately
86.7 kWh, 108.3 kWh and 130 kWh.
