In early December, Faraday will be located at the factory in Hanford, California.
Just as the probe wanted to walk into the factory where it wasn’t visible, a crow flew out of the abandoned factory and flew out.
A full load of freight trains whistled, but it went in another direction at the railroad junction and weeds on the way to the factory.
A yellow-haired kitten, seeing someone coming over, dreaded into the doorway of a factory building.
The gate to the old factory has erected a symbol of the future of Faraday.
This is the “FF 91 High-end Factory†of Faraday Future (FF), which Jia Yueting invested in Hanford, California.
Faraday has just abandoned the plan to build a factory in North Las Vegas in the United States and unveiled this leased old factory in August this year. This is Faraday's only future plan is also the first factory, located in the empty suburb between Los Angeles and Silicon Valley, more than 300 km away from the future headquarters of Faraday Los Angeles.
Weeds next to railroad tracks connecting factory
Door lock rust stains
At the beginning of December, when a news reporter came to this factory that had been abandoned for 16 years, he discovered that although there was a new sign for Faraday's future at the entrance of the factory, only one person in the nearly 900,000 square feet plant is currently in charge.
"They didn't do anything. There was no equipment to build a car. There was nothing. Only a safety engineer went to work every day at 9:00 am, but he was not here all day." A local learned about the progress of Faraday's factory construction. Franklin (a pseudonym) revealed to the news.
One afternoon in early December, when the reporter waited until the engineer drove into the factory, in the face of inquiries about the progress of the factory construction, the engineer did not want to say more. "It's just starting now," he said. He stayed in the factory for less than three minutes. He dropped one thing in his office.
Jia Yueting repeatedly said that Faraday plans to deliver the first mass production car by the end of 2018.
But where will this production vehicle go offline? It is still not clear.
There are still "nail households" in the old tenant.
At the factory building, three or four Spaniards who could not speak English were working. After some difficult communication, they learned that they were unlawfully pulling in the employees of the future, but were tenants who had not yet moved out.
Tenants who have not relocated
This is already early December. According to Faraday's plan to be released in August, in the coming months, the FF 91 high-end factory will carry out various preparatory work before it goes into production: including planning, renovation and permit applications. After the existing tenants moved out in late November, the company expects to start large-scale machine relocation in early 2018.
The security guard managing the old factory told the Xinhua News Agency that the real estate developers informed all the tenants on August 22th that they had asked to move within 30 days. A rented 15,000-square-foot tenant had just moved away in November, but there was the last A tenant is reluctant to withdraw, and currently lawyers have stepped in. "You know, once you get a lawsuit, things will not be going so fast. This is exactly what they meant. You can delay the time. They already owe $10,000 in rent," said the security guard.
Factory area view
The factory, which has a history of 55 years, was once a Pirelli tire manufacturing plant and was abandoned in 2001.
According to a press release, the factory is the property of the large US real estate developer, Industrial Realty Group (IRG). Its official website shows that this factory is for sale rather than lease, covering an area of ​​about 900,000 square feet (about 275,000 square meters). However, in recent years, real estate developers have signed monthly agreements with some temporary tenants to divide the factory into small spaces to lease out.
"Faraday's future people have been asking me when they are moving. But I have no answer," said the security guard. Security guards are employed by IRG.
"10-year lease signed at the beginning of the year"
Faraday won the entire plant in the future, but it also rented it instead of buying it from the real estate developer.
Franklin’s correspondent told reporters that as early as two years ago, Faraday’s future people had visited this factory, but afterwards they chose a three-fold large-scale self-built factory in Nevada. “They fought for it from the local government. A lot of tax benefits."
According to reports, on December 10, 2015, Faraday announced that it will build a manufacturing facility in North Las Vegas, Nevada, with a total investment of US$1 billion and an area of ​​3 million square feet. The Nevada state government approved a $ 335 million incentive package for Faraday's future, including $ 215 million in tax credits and deductions, and $ 120 million in public spending to improve the infrastructure of an upcoming industrial zone.
Faraday later exposed the problem of funds, the plant construction stagnated. The local media quoted information from Kings County, California, saying that in 2017, Faraday returned to California in the future and rented this former tire factory.
Faraday’s promise to the local government in the future was to hire nearly 1300 three-shift employees at the California plant and achieve zero-emissions production to help California achieve the goal of adding 1.5 million zero-emission vehicles by 2025.
Franklin said that compared to the $1 billion self-built investment, Faraday will now only need to spend $30 million on refurbishment and refurbishment of leased buildings. He also revealed that Faraday will be preparing to rent here for 10 years, but he did not inform the rent.
A staff member of the real estate developer IRG confirmed to the Xinhua News that the industrial land in California had been "all leased out" and no longer sold.
Window sill, door handle, all wrapped in spider web
"In addition to cleaning, painting, nothing happened."
In August of this year, Faraday’s press release issued in the future stated that on the day of the opening of the new factory, nearly 400 FF employees and supporters drove to the new factory building 300 kilometers away to celebrate the opening of the company’s new factory. The government officials of the California State Government, Hanford City Government and the King County where the factory is located also welcomed Faraday’s future presence.
"More than 350 designer engineers cleaned it out that day. They did it all eight hours a day. But one day, Saturday, then they left." Franklin said: "After there, 89 people came The paint was refurbished. Then there was a frequency of once a week, until one day they did not come back. In addition to this, they did nothing."
In November, a safety engineer was assigned to work at Faraday's factory in the future, but there was still no sign of starting a factory plan. He arrives at the factory around 9:00 am on each working day. He enters the same door every time, but he is not here all day. He may negotiate with the government, the designer, the police, and attend some meetings.
The only employee in the factory enters the door with the FF logo on every day
The local government is also paying close attention to the progress of Faraday's future plant construction.
According to local media The Sentinel reported on November 16, as of now, the urban construction department stated that they have not received any plans.
According to the report of The Business Journal on November 13, King County noticed that Faraday recently fired chief financial and technology executives, but "some officials are not worried that this may reduce the plan to build a car factory in Hanford."
FF factory planning aerial view
"They are start-up companies that need to raise large sums of money," said Craig Pederson, the King County administrator.
In September 2017, FF Global Production's Vice President Dag Reckhorn visited the region and pointed out that the company needed to obtain some licenses before it was put into production, and these were promoting in the cities. According to the data, Reckhorn is the head of strategy and implementation of the high-end factory of FF 91.
Jia Yueting's group photo of FF USA team released on Weibo
The scene of the reporter shooting at the same angle
In addition, Reckhorn also said that FF needs to confirm the funds before it goes into production. He knows that the media has reported the problems of the company's funds, but he said that they have learnt from their mistakes and are studying these issues.
"They said that they will produce at the end of 2018. I don't think it's possible." Franklin judged. "But now nothing is there. We must first refurbish it. We must arrange the power supply, the electrical equipment, and we must move into the equipment. It will take at least a year to start." Recruitment before it starts production."
"The matter must be completed as quickly as possible," Franklin said.
The biggest variable is still the funding side.
Jia Yueting is seeking new financing for Faraday's future. On December 13, The Verge reported that former employees revealed that unless new financing is introduced, the remaining funds of Faraday will only be enough for the company to support until the end of this year. In order to keep the company, Jia Yueting is still seeing potential investors, and may determine a new round of financing.
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