CES 2016: new electric car company Faraday Future has entered the automotive industry with a high-tech supercar, which runs on a modular battery that can be easily resized for its upcoming vehicle designs (+ movie).
Faraday Future, which was set up eight months ago, revealed a prototype of the battery-powered FFZero1 at the CES technology show in Las Vegas this week.

The company said its debut model incorporates enough technology for the vehicle to develop a "sixth sense for its driver's intentions and needs".

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The FFZero1 concept features a new kind of battery structure, comprising cells that are arranged into what the company calls "strings". Adding or removing these strings changes battery capacity and creates new wheelbases ? the distance between the front and rear axles of a vehicle. This modular system allows the car maker to use the same structure for all its vehicles, altering it depending on the size and power specifications of any given design quickly and cheaply.

"With Variable Platform Architecture we can add or subtract strings of batteries," said research chief Nick Sampson ? a former engineer at Elon Musk's electric car company Tesla. "Based on those power cells we can create different models and have a different desired range without having to redesign the entire structure."
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