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January 25, 2021 02:54 PM

Faraday Future moves forward with EV project, will enlist Geely's help, report says

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    A Faraday Future FF 91 electric car arrives on stage for an exhibition of speed during an unveiling event at CES in Las Vegas on Jan. 3, 2017.

    SHANGHAI -- Embattled startup Faraday Future will push ahead with plans to produce electric vehicles in China by opening a plant in the country and enlisting Geely to provide contract manufacturing services, sources said.

    The Los Angeles startup intends to set up a new base in China as part of those plans, the three sources familiar with the matter said, declining to be named as Faraday Future's plans have not been made public.

    The company told prospective investors this month it plans to locate the plant in a "tier one Chinese city" and envisions that it will have the capacity to make over 100,000 vehicles a year in its initial phase, one of the sources said, adding Faraday Future may add a research center in the same city.

    Zhejiang Geely Holding Group is in talks to provide contract manufacturing services to Faraday Future in China for its mass-market model, two of the sources said. Geely will also provide engineering and smart car technologies including autonomous driving functions, they said.

    The sources cautioned Faraday Future's plan was not fully finalized and is subject to change. Geely and Faraday Future declined to comment.

    Faraday Future has had a whirlwind journey since it was founded in 2014 by Chinese businessman Jia Yueting, once touted by Chinese media as China's answer to Tesla Inc.'s Elon Musk for his ambitions in the auto industry.

    The company first announced in 2017 that it would build the FF 91, a fully electric vehicle, with the intention to launch it in 2019. However, it has delayed production plans multiple times due to a series of financing issues.

    Jia, who also founded entertainment company Leshi Internet, stepped down as CEO of Faraday Future in 2019 and finalized a personal bankruptcy filing in June.

    The company already has a plant in Hanford, Calif. In 2019, it said it wanted to raise $850 million to launch the FF 91, down from an original estimate of $2 billion.

    Earlier this month, Faraday Future said it was still raising money and would start making FF 91 vehicles in about a year, or once it had reached a funding target.

    A Faraday Future spokesman reaffirmed the fund raising and manufacturing plan the company announced this month in a statement to Reuters on Monday.

    Geely, which owns Volvo Cars and a 9.7 percent stake in Daimler AG , said this month that it would let China's search engine giant Baidu Inc. develop cars on its EV-focused platform.

    It also signed an agreement with Foxconn to provide contract manufacturing and technology consultancy services to other automakers.

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