Corporate pilot here. Absolutely the most difficult part of this was getting him to the airplane. After he’s onboard, easy peasy japanesey.

The Japanese judicial system is so tilted (99% conviction rates) that it’s hard to see how he’d get a fair trial, especially since the evidence points toward a contrived set of charges drummed up by MITI to protect Nissan from falling into French government control. This was a set-up, pure and simple.

My goodness, can’t FF just stop this whole ridiculous charade and save a little face? If they’re still serious, that’s fine. Let them take a year off to regroup and make plans that can actually succeed and have another go at it. The longer they keep this up, the more costly it will all become.

Indeed. Not to mention, if they did need more capacity down the line (lol) it would make more sense to expand the Nevada facility, where taxes are lower and there is tons of room in every direction to build. Laughable.

That’s not what customers care about. They only want to know if it has 4G.

I would like to preorder this vehicle from you. Here’s my $100k; I’m sure you’re completely trustworthy.

Yep all those invisible cars

Working in OEM factories my whole life, it sounds like this:

In ideal world we don’t need unions to prevent abuse because abuse should not be happening to begin with. But I am pretty certain world is not ideal.

I should file a complaint against my wife when she hands me a mop to clean the kitchen. We don’t own a turkey baster so she is not even providing me with adequate tools to get the job done.

“the company’s 1400 employees”

I had no idea that John Madden was their backer:

This just in:

We’re going to make just the best cars. You know it, I know, everyone knows it. People are saying things, I hear them. They are saying were so big league now. We’re doing this big league. It’s just fantastic. Trust me!

This is pretty much exactly what I’m expecting, Faraday develops all the tech, goes bankrupt, LeEco gets it all for pennies on the dollar for a huge manufacturing head start.

There are teenagers who have built electric cars in a garage, with little more than a few thousand dollar budget.
How did FF burn through Billions of dollars and only have a few incomplete concepts to show for it?

I would expect FF to lie, cheat, and steal to keep confidence up so the money doesn’t run dry. Business 101, yes, but maybe they slept through Business Ethics.

Don’t worry, right before they file Chapter 7, they’ll put every asset on a freighter to China to the LeEco factory. Jia will be on the back of the boat waving and yelling, “SO LONG, AMERICAN SUCKERS! BWAHAHAHAHA!”