Faraday Future Hosts Virtual Global Supplier Summit

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05/18/2023 - 11:17 AM

Company recaps key highlights from recent milestones, sets tone for upcoming production and delivery plans.

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIE) ("Faraday Future", “FF” or "Company"), a California-based global shared intelligent electric mobility ecosystem company, held its virtual 2023 Global Supplier Summit on May 17^th for its global supply chain network of key suppliers and strategic partners. FF’s suppliers provide a vast array of materials, parts, and services for the company’s first luxury electric vehicle offering, the FF 91. Over 200 suppliers signed up to listen in to the FF leadership team give a comprehensive overview of FF’s global strategy, vision, business plan and project updates.

Strengthening FF’s Supply Chain Relationship

FF’s supplier network has helped the Company reach a pinnacle in its history as it has made considerable progress and accomplished numerous key operational and strategic objectives in recent months. On April 14, 2023, the Company’s first production FF 91 rolled off the line at its FF ieFactory California and homologation for the FF 91 is progressing as planned as most of the FMVSS tests have been successfully completed. The Company has performed the highest severity crash tests and has passed all of these tests successfully, including front, side and rear crash. The Company is grateful to FF’s global suppliers for helping FF get to this historical point in the company’s history.

“Our goal was for suppliers to learn more background on our product and technology, manufacturing status, sales and delivery plans and our recent funding commitments,” said Mathias Hofmann, Senior Vice President of Supply Chain at FF. “The FF 91 is a revolutionary and technology-packed vehicle, with thousands of parts and assemblies, so our relationship with our supplier partners is critical to achieving our goal of successfully delivering FF 91 to our users this year.”

FF’s executive speakers gave a snapshot of FF’s business environment and included FF’s Global CEO, Xuefeng Chen (XF), Phil Bethell (Vice President of Vehicle Line Engineering), Nicolas Bel (Senior Manager, Powertrain), Joaquin Azcona (Senior Plant Director, Manufacturing Operations), Yun Han, (Interim CFO), Jose Guerrero (Senior Director, Sales), and finally Rich Schmidt, FF’s new Vice President of Manufacturing.

Users can preorder an FF 91 vehicle via the FF Intelligent App or through our website (English): https://www.ff.com/us/preorder/
or (Chinese): https://www.ff.com/cn/preorder/

Download the new FF Intelligent App (English): https://www.ff.com/us/mobile-app/
(Chinese): http://appdownload.ff.com

ABOUT FARADAY FUTURE

Faraday Future (FF) is the pioneer of the Ultimate TechLuxury ultra spire market in the intelligent EV era, and the disruptor of the traditional ultra-luxury car civilization. FF is not just an EV company, but also a software-driven intelligent internet company. Ultimately FF aims to become a User Company by offering a shared intelligent mobility ecosystem.

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