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CES 2017: Faraday Future Unveils Super Fast Quick Electric Car
Start-up Faraday Future has unveiled a self-driving electric car that it says can accelerate from zero to 60mph (97km/h) in 2.39 seconds.
Faraday says the FF91 accelerates faster than Tesla's Model S or any other electric car in production.
It was shown off at the CES tech show in Las Vegas.
But Faraday Future has faced financial difficulties and one analyst said it had to challenge "scepticism" following last year's CES presentation.
The FF91 was introduced via a live demo, in which it drove itself around a car park and backed into an empty space.
Faraday Future's demo glitch
The car looked good, except for one minor (major?) hang-up.
At one point, Nick Sampson, the company's senior vice president of research and development and engineering, was onstage with Faraday Future's main investor, LeEco chairman Jia Yueting. Sampson asked Jia to press a button on the car to prompt the "auto valet park" feature.
Nothing happened.
"OK, it seems like it's a little bit lazy tonight," Sampson said of the car before inviting Jia to give some remarks about the company.
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(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday January 06 2017, @01:14AM
Of course, to know what actually gets to the wheels, there are losses, and gearing was already factored in what I mentioned - that reduces the BHP because of mechanical losses (which turn into hot air) which are increased at higher gears.
Some of the limitations are limitations to the engine's horse power, simply an inability to drive the required inputs into the combustion chamber, ignite them, and get them back out again will limit the HP. So gizmos and mods can increase the HP. In the old days in Europe at least, motorbike HP limitation was done not electronically, but mechanically, at the exhaust. I still think it's fair to say that the limit to the top speed was the power, rather than the exhaust flow, because changing the exhaust flow changes the HP. (Modern cars are limited in the ECUs, I'm led to believe, but I have no hands-on experience of them, so can't be sure.)
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