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Faraday Future Unveils Batmobile-Like EV Concept Car

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Watch out, Tesla: Faraday Future wowed CES audiences this week with its electric concept racecar.

CES 2016 Bug ArtWhat looks like the lovechild of a Corvette and the Batmobile, the FFZERO1 concept is a high-performance electric vehicle, which FF says is built on a "modular engineering system" it will use for all its vehicles going forward.

Dubbed the "Car of Concepts," FF said its vehicle includes "adaptive personalization, seamless transfer of custom vehicle configurations, access to live images and real time data visualization." The smartphone is part of the driving experience, integrated into the steering column, letting it "serve as the interface between the vehicle and the driver in – and outside – of the car."

The vehicle could be fully autonomous, FF said, "meeting its driver at the track and perhaps taking a few perfect laps on its own to compare with, and improve upon, its driver's performance."

The concept car's interior features a single seat, which holds the driver at a 45-degree angle to promote circulation. There is also integrated head and neck support, as well as oxygen and water supply fed through a helmet.

Faraday Future Interior

An aerodynamic exterior matches the clean aesthetic inside: FF's "UFO line" runs around the center of the vehicle, intended to give the sense that it is "not completely of this world." With four motors (one at each wheel), 1,000 horsepower, zero-to-60 acceleration in under three seconds, and a top speed above 200 mph, the FFZERO1 may as well be an unidentified flying object on the racetrack.

"The FFZERO1 Concept is an amplified version of the design and engineering philosophies informing FF's forthcoming production vehicles," Richard Kim, Futur Faraday's head of design, said in a statement. "This project liberated our designers and inspired new approaches for vehicle forms, proportions and packaging that we can apply to our upcoming production models."

Once thought to be a front for Apple's automotive project, the California-based, Chinese-backed Faraday Future last month 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 manufacturing facility will ultimately employ 4,500 people.

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