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Faraday Future is a new car company, a company that wants to sell electric cars. Chinese backed and based in the US. I found out about them when a news report mentioned that the company is putting up a bond to insure that Nevada doesn't lose money if the company goes belly up. (It should be lost on no one that their headquarters are in California but the factory is being built in Nevada.)
Go to their web site and play the video: Faraday Future
The video brought me up short. There isn't anything about the car they want to make or what its specific advantages would be. It's all about their own virtue signaling. It's about vague social and community goals. There isn't even a picture of car they would make. They are selling a car to remake society, it seems. These people, I'm thinking, don't have their eye on the ball. No way would I invest in them unless they got their act together.
Or maybe they are trying to tap into the sort of buyer who wants to signal virtue by owning an e-car? The type of buyer who needs to feel good about himself even while he rapes the environment by driving a car?
A picture of a concept car they have built. It looks completely impractical, but I get that this is a proof of concept sort of experiment of theirs, but, again, what's going through their heads? Plus, trying to sell an e-car with gasoline looking to go south of $1.40 a gallon?
Battery + electric motor + platform. It seems to me that it could be done very cheaply. But not if they build them like that concept car.
In other news: The SAT testing agency has come out with a new version of their test with new and improved Social Justice[SUP]TM[/SUP]. I kid you not. Social Justice is like Religion used to be. They pour it over everything, like ketchup.
Go to their web site and play the video: Faraday Future
The video brought me up short. There isn't anything about the car they want to make or what its specific advantages would be. It's all about their own virtue signaling. It's about vague social and community goals. There isn't even a picture of car they would make. They are selling a car to remake society, it seems. These people, I'm thinking, don't have their eye on the ball. No way would I invest in them unless they got their act together.
Or maybe they are trying to tap into the sort of buyer who wants to signal virtue by owning an e-car? The type of buyer who needs to feel good about himself even while he rapes the environment by driving a car?
A picture of a concept car they have built. It looks completely impractical, but I get that this is a proof of concept sort of experiment of theirs, but, again, what's going through their heads? Plus, trying to sell an e-car with gasoline looking to go south of $1.40 a gallon?
Battery + electric motor + platform. It seems to me that it could be done very cheaply. But not if they build them like that concept car.
In other news: The SAT testing agency has come out with a new version of their test with new and improved Social Justice[SUP]TM[/SUP]. I kid you not. Social Justice is like Religion used to be. They pour it over everything, like ketchup.
