It does not seem to be better at Faraday Future. Last week, we reported from the problems with the start-up, which wanted to act as Tesla competitor,. Now the situation is pointing. Nick Sampson, one of the three co-founders of Faraday Future, has resigned and dissociates itself from the company. His resignation is just one day after Peter Savagian, a longtime GM manager and Senior Vice President for technology and product development at Faraday Future, has also left the company.
But not enough, after redundancies and salary cuts past week, management has decided to continue the company at the company’s headquarters in Val Gardena, California, and in his factory in Hanford, California,. According to an e-mail from CEO Jia Yueting, the workers are set in unpaid holidays or “holidays” until a new funding is secured.
All employees who after the 1. May this year have started to take on vacation. Full-time employees who before the 1. May be busy at Faraday Future, have the option of having a reduced salary of 50.000 US dollars per year aboard. Hours who have been in the company for more than six months may stay in the company for more than six months.
“The company is factually insolvent in relation to its financial and personnel assets, it will be at best on foreseeable time. I feel that my role in Faraday Future is not a long way I can go, so I will leave the company with immediate effect.”- Nick Sampson, co-founder of Faraday Future
Sampson closes but at least not to return to Faraday Future if the circumstances change significantly. CEO Jia Yueting shows itself, insofar as it is possible to express it, understanding for its employees and acknowledges that the current situation means emotional stress and financial burden on the private life of the employees.
The disagreement of Faraday Future with the Evergrand Group as the largest investor led – as mentioned above – last week to redundancies and wage cuts – by 20 percent – as well as payment defaults in a number of suppliers. The company had spent the first $ 800 million from Evergrande to July, and there was an advance on the remaining $ 1.2 billion after it had taken the case in front of an arbitration court in Hong Kong.
The referee allowed Faraday Future to look for up to $ 500 million in new investment funds, but it is governed by the approval of Evergrande. Truly a heavy blow, considering that the E-SUV FF91 should be delivered at the end of 2018.
Faraday Future signed a lease for the work in Hanford in August 2017 and promised the local government that it eventually around 1.300 jobs would create. The company spent most of the year 2018, the factory – which has been inactive since 2001, when it was used for the production of Pirelli tires, to renovate them for the production of the electrical luxury SUV of the company, the FF91 to prepare.
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