California drivers will soon have to share the roads with self-driving electric vehicles from Faraday Future.

Citing an unnamed industry source, Reuters on Tuesday reported that the California-based, Chinese-backed start-up recently got the okay to begin testing its prototype vehicles on public roads in the state. Faraday has reportedly been testing its prototype vehicles at private facilities for the past year, but now it's ready to hit the open road.

The company is aiming to start building and selling EVs in the US next year; fully autonomous models could come later, according to Reuters.

Faraday is now one of 14 companies approved to test autonomous vehicles on public roads in California, including the Silicon Valley start-ups Zoox and Drive.ai, Reuters notes. Other approved testers include GM's Cruise Automation, Google, Tesla, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, BMW, Honda, Ford, and auto suppliers Robert Bosch and Delphi Automotive.

Recent reports indicated that Faraday is looking to test drive its autonomous cars in Michigan. The company recently applied for manufacturer plates, which it'll need before it can test its vehicle prototypes on public roads in the Great Lakes State.

For the uninitiated, Faraday burst onto the scene in January 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, Faraday 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.