Competition is a good thing, and Tesla has
some major competition with the Faraday FF 91.
This is an all electric SUV competing with
the Model X.
We took the Model X on a road trip from Salt
Lake down here to CES.
And now I'm going to take the Faraday FF 91
out for a spin.
[Intro]
I think it's super interesting that Tesla's
named after an inventor that lived, you know,
a hundred and fifty years ago who worked on
the alternating current that we see in the
power lines.
And Faraday was yet another scientist who
lived about 150-200 years ago and was one
of the pioneers in electromagnetic induction.
So we have two famous scientist whose names
are now being used in competing electric car
companies – pretty awesome.
So one of the extremely unique features of
the Faraday future are these dual antennas
on the back – these little shark looking
fin things, which actually give it a really
strong internet connection with 350 megabits
down.
Which is faster than most broadband connections
in the United States.
You can live stream from it, you can download
videos from it.
And a lot of that data connection will be
used for the self driving section, you know,
giving updates on the road, other cars around
you, things like that.
The logo right here, when looked at sideways,
it's actually an FF for Faraday Future.
So you've seen the Model X and the Falcon
wing doors.
The doors on the Faraday Future are a little
bit different.
There's a button right here, and a button
right here.
And both of them are automatic and they open
in opposite directions.
Huge thanks to Faraday for sponsoring this
video and giving me a chance to take their
car out for a spin.
Remember this is a pre-production model, so
we're checking out the exterior and the performance
of the car, and not so much the interior.
That will come later when the car is actually
released.
So now we're inside the Faraday, the FF91.
This is kind of the pre-produciton model.
It's mostly just to show off the performance,
you know, it's not built for comfort.
We're in these bucket seats with harnesses.
It's definitely not going to be what the finished
car is going to look like inside.
But I can already feel the power from the
two motors....Oh man!!... from the two motors
in the back and the one motor in the front.
We can see out the front windshield right
here, and then over here on the side for the
rear view mirrors, they're just like this
little stick with a camera in it.
So it's going to be interesting with the final
version where they're going to put that.
Right now it's up here for like the rear view
mirror.
You can see each of these sides right here
and over here, and then the rear here is the
back camera.
What happens when you honk the horn?
[Honk, honk] Nice!
One of the coolest things about this car is
that, you know, you've seen the Tesla battery
pack.
There's been Tesla's dismantle and you can
see like the huge rectangular battery packs.
What Faraday's been using, though, is like
these little modules that connect like little
Legos all underneath the car.
So if something goes wrong with the battery
pack, they can just pop one out and replace
it.
And they're not limited to one solid battery
pack, you know, they can increase the capacity
and decrease the capacity whenever they want
to.
With these modules, I imagine, you know, if
you damage some of the modules, you can pop
out the little Lego components and replace
the modules that are damages into the whole
battery pack itself, which I think is pretty
awesome.
So the zero to sixty of this thing is 2.39
seconds.
We have reached a stop sign and we are going
to floor this thing and see how fast we can
really go.
[Music playing]
Oh man!!
No way dude!
You can hear the tires squeal on that!
Oh!!
That was legit!
So I'm holding the camera with my hand and
the G's from that just like bent the legs
of my tripod backwards towards me.
That was sweet.
That was so sweet!
[Driver] Not everything's on the table right
here, boys.
[Zack] No way?
[Driver] It's not 100%.
[Music playing]
One of the coolest things about electric cars
for me, and the reason that I think they're
the future, is because their electric motors
don't need like a transmission to shift.
You know I just bought my Toyota Tacoma, and
for me to get from zero to sixty I have to
shift the gear shifter 5 times.
You know, let off the gas, shift the gear,
let off the gas, shift the gear.
But with these electric cars, they are instantly
zero
to sixty just straight up – no shifting
at all required.
And that's why they are so fast.
2.39 seconds is ridiculous.
2.5 seconds is ridiculous.
My Toyota Tacoma can reach zero to sixty in
7.7 seconds.
That's still pretty good.
Some of the safety features going on inside
of the Faraday are that thing this is going
to pop off with lidar, and then we have some
radar up top which is pretty similar to what
we saw inside of the Model X.
There's also some of these same proximity
sensors and stuff, so we'll have some cameras
right here on the side.
As well as this is the rear camera that we
saw earlier that was showing up in the display
off the dashboard.
So as the Faraday is driving, the tires move
a little bit as it turns.
I think it has a turn of like 3 degrees or
something like that, and that helps give a
tighter turn radius than you would normally
see in like a Tesla Model X.
So because this car's named after Faraday,
one of the scientists from the past, I think
it would be cool to toss a wireless charger
on the bottom of this thing so you can just
roll into your garage and start charging.
I think that would be a pretty sweet thumbs
up to Faraday and his work with the electromagnet
induction and that wireless charging stuff.
Electric cars are the future.
Gas powered cars are going the way of the
dinosaur.
Let me know what you think of this car.
Would you ever buy an electric car?
And what do you think of the Faraday FF91?
I'm super stoked.
I love the competition that's happening right
now.
Thanks a ton for watching, and I'll see you
guys around.
