July 4, 2017, Jia Yueting Pavilion boarded the plane to the United States, said this is only a short-term business trip to return next week. Until the 2018 Spring Festival Eve, Jia Yueting Pavilion finally appeared, of course, still did not return.
FF held its first global supplier Summit at the Gardena Research and Development headquarters in California, USA, on February 14, 2018. FF founder Jia Yueting Pavilion made a keynote speech.
FF, nearly 200 participants from more than 100 global suppliers, including Bosch, LG Chemical, Fuji Industrial Technology Miyazu, lidar supplier Velodyne, British automotive engineering Machinery Company Ricardo, and one of the world's largest manufacturers of industrial robots FANUC and other suppliers to attend.
Jia Yueting said that in the past, FF has made some fatal mistakes, and now it is time to focus 100% on the daily operation of FF. The short-term goal of FF is to achieve the goal of successfully delivering FF 91 by the end of 2018, with a long-term goal of selling millions of volumes annually.
In addition, Jia Yueting Pavilion disclosed that FF has successfully completed the equity financing, basically meet the FF before the IPO all equity financing needs.
According to Business Insider, an unnamed Hong Kong patron has pledged to invest $1.5 billion, of which $550 million has been "deposited in the bank", an insider said. The source said about $300 million had arrived in early December 2017, with $250 million received earlier this month and the remaining $950 million depending on the FF project process.
At the same time, Pablo Ucar, vice president of supply chain at FF, said at the summit: "Our goal in hosting this event is to enable our suppliers to reinvent their confidence in our mass production programs and capital." From the feedback received, we have achieved this goal. ”
It also means that the buzz of FF, which started at the end of last year, is supposed to be fundamentally truthful about getting new financing.
According to the FF, FF plans to deliver the first FF 91 at the Hanford plant in California at the end of the quarter, and the plant's progress will be on the way.
Dag Reckhorn, senior vice president of global manufacturing at FF, said the Hanford Plant project was under schedule and was now in the design and licensing phase and was preparing for a full recruitment effort. As of February 1, the original tenants in the plant have all moved out and FF will complete construction and equipment work at the end of the quarter. The FF 91 is being delivered at the end of the year as planned.
Although the summit has temporarily pulled the FF back from the brink of death, the Jia Yueting Pavilion still seems to have not abandoned his "ecological anti".
In the speech, Jia Yueting said, "FF 91 is not just an electric car, it is a new species, but also a third internet living space." "And shout out" Let's break the boundaries of technology, let's push the car industry to change, let's make it impossible "slogan.
is still familiar with the Jia Yueting Pavilion, but this declaration is more like the memory of the unfinished dream.
Hope Jia Yueting Pavilion this time do not play smashed, this time no success, "next week" may be "the rest of your life".
▌ The following is the full speech of Jia Yueting Pavilion:
Welcome to Faraday Future.
Thank you for coming to the FF first global supplier Summit.
I am the Jia Yueting Pavilion.
I founded this company with a grand vision to protect the Earth's ecology, improve the living environment, and create a new future travel ecology. Unlike some EV startups who just want to be followers, FF is born to be a change, and FF is born to transform products and technologies and business models. In Faraday future, we define in the future, FF 91 is a new species, it is not just an electric car, it is the third internet living space, it is a car robot, even more than you know you.
This car will be the gateway to our mobile travel ecosystem, and we will continue to deliver high-value Internet and shared services to our users.
In the past, FF was one of the seven business I started, and I learned a lot from Leeco's experience. We have created the Internet ecosystem model and developed technological innovations that break the boundaries, which will become the core value of transforming the next generation of the automotive industry.
But I have also made some fatal mistakes, all of which will be a valuable asset to FF. Now I'm focusing 100% on the daily operations of FF. We will ensure that FF has achieved great success in both China and the United States with our dual home strategy and dual brand strategy.
2018 will be a wonderful year for Faraday, and our team is preparing for important milestones to drive our sales release of FF 91 to the road by the end of the year. This is only a short-term goal, and the long-term goal is to achieve millions of sales each year, which will be achieved through our "knock-off" models. However, without your support, we will not be able to successfully deliver the first new species. That's why we're so excited that you can come.
Our success is your success, and our harvest is your harvest.
I know what I said is not easy, some people will even say it is impossible, we must rush to finish the scheduled target on time. But we have to do it high-quality and build it with the highest standards of safety.
Not everyone believes that we can achieve this vision. If we want to create miracles, we need to be a little bit more crazy.
People will say we can't do this, but like our crazy people, we can make the impossible possible.
We will never say "no way" in FF, we will always find a solution.
At the same time, I am pleased to share with you that we have successfully completed our equity financing, which basically meets the full equity financing needs of our IPO.
The slogan of our company this year is fight to the first. We need your help to get our first FF 91 on the road. I also assure you that FF will give you great rewards that other companies cannot afford.
Let us break the boundaries of technology;
Let's drive the transformation of the automobile industry together;
Let us realize the impossibility together;
Thank you.
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