Faraday Future

Byton co-founder Carsten Breitfeld is currently CEO of rival EV startup Faraday Future.

EV startup Faraday Future is undergoing a restructure that has seen it name a new CEO and potentially formed new partnerships.

The soap opera that is Faraday Future's road to production took a new twist on Monday with the EV startup announcing a bridge loan that will keep funds flowing as the company attempts to raise capital to get the FF91 crossover into production and develop additional models. There's a potential $225...

Faraday Future plans to form a joint venture with Chinese video game company The9 to build hundreds of thousands of EVs in China.

Faraday Future, the California-based electric car startup, has been in limbo since the middle of last year due to financial woes, but the company has received a new lifeline. It comes from a rather unlikely place: a Chinese video game company. The startup announced it has signed a joint-venture...

Faraday Future only a few short years ago planned to spend $1 billion to build a sprawling high-tech facility north of Las Vegas to churn out its electric cars. However a cash crunch in late 2016 meant the Chinese-backed, Californian EV startup had to scale back its plans, including abandoning the...

China's Evergrande Group, a key investor in U.S.-based Faraday Future, announced Tuesday it has acquired a controlling stake in NEVS, the Chinese-backed, Swedish company born out of the ashes of Saab. In a statement, Evergrande said it acquired 51 percent of NEVS in a quest to diversify into the...

Faraday Future has managed to stave off what seemed like imminent death by ending a dispute with key investor Evergrande Health Industry Group, the same company Faraday Future accused last October of trying to gain its intellectual property. The two firms said Monday that they have agreed to...

Drama continues to unfold between electric car startup Faraday Future and its key investor, Chinese conglomerate Evergrande Health Industry Group Ltd. A Wednesday report from The Verge uncovered that Faraday Future employees have now sued the investor. Employees filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles...

Faraday Future has officially opened itself to "potential investors from around the world." The electric-car start-up said it has begun exploring strategic options, according to a Thursday Reuters report, and hopes to attract new investors. Options include debt and equity financing. This year has...

Faraday Future has once again shifted to a poorer outlook as the electric car startup prepares to lay off employees and cut employee salaries. The latest measures in frugality come as Faraday Future feuds with its main investor over new installments of funds. The Verge reported on the forthcoming...

Electric car startup Faraday Future is currently embroiled in a dispute with key investor Evergrande Health Industry Group, a subsidiary of property developer China Evergrande Group. Evergrande agreed in June to purchase a 45-percent stake in Faraday Future from a company by the name of Season...

Electric car startup Faraday Future appears to be back on track with development of its first model, the FF91, following a rough couple of years resulting from cash shortages and a senior executive exodus. The Chinese-backed, U.S-based company reached a major milestone Tuesday with the completion...

Electric car startup Faraday Future appears to be back on track with development of its first model, the FF91, following a rough couple of years resulting from cash shortages and a senior executive exodus. The company on Monday announced it has completed the first body-in-white for the FF91 at its...

Remember Faraday Future? The cash-strapped electric car startup hasn't been in the headlines of late but it isn't dead yet. In fact, the company may have been thrown a lifeline in the form of a stake sale to Hong Kong firm Evergrande Health Industry Group, a subsidiary of property developer China...

Faraday Future on Wednesday gave a preview of a model to follow the FF91, which the company remains hopeful of getting into production by the end of 2018. The preview came in the form of a design sketch shown briefly to attendees at a supplier meeting. The electric car startup held the meeting with...

Faraday Future's vision hasn't exactly panned out as once imagined, and serious financial problems have ensued. However, a Hong Kong-based entity has thrown the struggling electric-car maker a $1.5 billion lifeline to keep the lights on. Business Insider reported on Tuesday that the unnamed entity...

Despite being ordered to return to China by the country’s securities regulator, not to mention having his assets seized by the court system, embattled Chinese businessman Jia Yueting says he’s staying put in the United States in order to secure funding for electric car startup Faraday...

Faraday Future’s main backer, Jia Yueting, has been ordered to return to China to meet financial obligations promised to investors of his LeEco electronics and video streaming business. The order was issued on Monday by the China Securities Regulatory Commission which has been pushing for...

To say Faraday Future has been having a tough couple of months is probably the understatement of the year. The latest in a long list of setbacks is news that main backer Jia Yueting, the founder of Chinese tech giant LeEco, has been placed on an official list of debt defaulters in China after...