Faraday Future may be the latest automaker to hit the streets of Michigan.

The California-based, Chinese-backed electric vehicle start-up reportedly wants to take its autonomous car for a test drive in the Great Lakes State.

But it's not as easy as starting the engine and pressing "Go." Michigan requires all test vehicles to have a manufacturer license plate; companies must also show proof of no-fault insurance and pay a registration fee, according to The Detroit News. Faraday earlier this year contacted the Michigan Department of Transportation about obtaining the right materials, DOT Director Kirk Steudle told the newspaper.

The company has since applied for three manufacturer plates, though a spokesman would not confirm to the News whether they will be used for autonomous vehicles.

"The plates will be used to help test various FF-vehicle prototypes and features," the company said in a statement to the paper. "We cannot comment on the specifics of those tests at this time."

Faraday Future did not immediately respond to PCMag's request for comment.

Around the same time it began poking around the Michigan DOT, Faraday burst onto the scene with the FFZERO1—an electronic concept racecar that looks like the lovechild of a Corvette and the Batmobile (pictured).

A high-performance EV, the car could be fully autonomous, FF said at the time. It could, for instance, meet its driver at the track and "perhaps take a few perfect laps on its own to compare with, and improve upon, its driver's performance."

There is no word on when the FFZERO1 will hit the racecourse. In the meantime, Faraday has reportedly been running "mules"—pre-prototype test cars—for about a year in California, Michigan, and other undisclosed sites, the News said.

Faraday Future late last year settled on a location in North Las Vegas for a $1 billion investment in a new manufacturing site. The 3-million-square-foot, state-of-the-art, environmentally conscious facility will ultimately employ 4,500 people.