Faraday Future Continues to Improve Manufacturing Efficiency by Insourcing its FF 91 2.0 EV Seats
December 11 2024 - 2:13AM
Business Wire
- The Company will start manufacturing the FF 91 2.0’s seats
in-house at its Hanford, CA factory immediately, reducing costs for
its flagship luxury EV.
- In-house manufacturing of seats and interiors are the
foundation for personalization and customization in the Ultimate AI
TechLuxury FF 91 2.0.
Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIE)
(“Faraday Future”, “FF” or “Company”), a California-based global
shared intelligent electric mobility ecosystem company, today
announced that it is insourcing the manufacturing of its FF 91 2.0
vehicle seats. This is one example of how the Company looks at
every part of its operations to find efficiencies within the
organization. It also continues to work to optimize its global
supplier network and set up a supplier base for the Faraday X
brand.
The FF 91 2.0 has some of the most advanced and comfortable rear
seats in its class. Every seat is a great seat in the FF 91 2.0.
Two “Zero Gravity” seats in the rear row of the vehicle cradle you,
perfectly support you, and smoothly ease you into sleeping or
immerse you into a position where you can enjoy the entertainment
suite that the FF 91 2.0 provides rear seat passengers.
“FF will keep working to optimize operations and improve
efficiency, like this prime example of insourcing our FF 91 2.0
seats, to support sustainability,” said Matthias Aydt, Global CEO
of FF. “This includes ongoing evaluations of our current cost
reduction efforts and spending efficiency, including daily
operations and FF 91 2.0 materials costs.”
ABOUT FARADAY FUTURE
Faraday Future is the pioneer of the Ultimate AI TechLuxury
ultra spire market in the intelligent EV era, and the disruptor of
the traditional ultra-luxury car civilization epitomized by Ferrari
and Maybach. FF is not just an EV Company, but also a
software-driven intelligent internet Company. Ultimately FF aims to
become a User Company by offering a shared intelligent mobility
ecosystem. FF remains dedicated to advancing electric vehicle
technology to meet the evolving needs and preferences of users
worldwide, driven by a pursuit of intelligent and AI-driven
mobility.
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
This release includes “forward looking statements” within the
meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the United States Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. When used in this release
the words “potential,” “aims,” and variations of these words or
similar expressions (or the negative versions of such words or
expressions) are intended to identify forward-looking statements.
These forward-looking statements, including insourcing the
manufacturing of seats for the FF 91 2.0, optimizing the Company’s
global supplier network, and setting up a supplier base for the
Faraday X brand, involve a number of known and unknown risks,
uncertainties, assumptions and other important factors, many of
which are outside the Company’s control, which could cause actual
results or outcomes to differ materially from those discussed in
the forward-looking statements. Important factors, among others,
that may affect actual results or outcomes include: insourcing the
manufacturing of the FF 91 2.0 seats may not result in cost savings
and could be more expensive than outsourcing; the Company may be
unable to effectively optimize its supplier network or secure the
necessary suppliers to for the Faraday X brand at costs acceptable
to the Company or at all; the Company’s ability to secure the
necessary funding to execute on its the Faraday X and UAE
strategies, which will be substantial; the Company’s ability to
continue as a going concern and improve its liquidity and financial
position; the Company’s ability to pay its outstanding obligations;
the Company's ability to remediate its material weaknesses in
internal control over financial reporting and the risks related to
the restatement of previously issued consolidated financial
statements; the Company’s limited operating history and the
significant barriers to growth it faces; the Company’s history of
losses and expectation of continued losses; the success of the
Company’s payroll expense reduction plan; the Company’s ability to
execute on its plans to develop and market its vehicles and the
timing of these development programs; the Company’s estimates of
the size of the markets for its vehicles and cost to bring those
vehicles to market; the rate and degree of market acceptance of the
Company’s vehicles; the Company’s ability to cover future warranty
claims; the success of other competing manufacturers; the
performance and security of the Company’s vehicles; current and
potential litigation involving the Company; the Company’s ability
to receive funds from, satisfy the conditions precedent of and
close on the various financings described elsewhere by the Company;
the result of future financing efforts, the failure of any of which
could result in the Company seeking protection under the Bankruptcy
Code; the Company’s indebtedness; the Company’s ability to cover
future warranty claims; the Company’s ability to use its
“at-the-market” program; insurance coverage; general economic and
market conditions impacting demand for the Company’s products;
potential negative impacts of a reverse stock split; potential
cost, headcount and salary reduction actions may not be sufficient
or may not achieve their expected results; circumstances outside of
the Company's control, such as natural disasters, climate change,
health epidemics and pandemics, terrorist attacks, and civil
unrest; risks related to the Company's operations in China; the
success of the Company's remedial measures taken in response to the
Special Committee findings; the Company’s dependence on its
suppliers and contract manufacturer; the Company's ability to
develop and protect its technologies; the Company's ability to
protect against cybersecurity risks; and the ability of the Company
to attract and retain employees, any adverse developments in
existing legal proceedings or the initiation of new legal
proceedings, and volatility of the Company’s stock price. The
foregoing list of factors is not exhaustive. You should carefully
consider the foregoing factors and the other risks and
uncertainties described in the “Risk Factors” section of the
Company’s Form 10-K filed with the SEC on May 28, 2024, as amended
on May 30, 2024, and June 24, 2024, as updated by the “Risk
Factors” section of the Company’s first quarter 2024 Form 10-Q
filed with the SEC on July 30, 2024, and other documents filed by
the Company from time to time with the SEC. These filings identify
and address other important risks and uncertainties that could
cause actual events and results to differ materially from those
contained in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking
statements speak only as of the date they are made. Readers are
cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements,
and the Company does not undertake any obligation to update or
revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise, except as required by
law.
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