Recently, Faraday Future (FF), founded by Jia Yueting, announced that a special committee composed of the company's independent board of directors has completed an investigation into the previous inaccurate allegations of short selling of J Capital Research.
Earlier, U.S. short-selling agency J Capital Research released a report calling Faraday Future an "emerging electric car scam" that would never sell a car.
Subsequently, Faraday's independent directors special committee reviewed the group's business, and the investigation found that FF had previously announced that FF 91 had more than 14,000 orders, but only a few hundred vehicles had been paid, FF was accused of false propaganda, and netizens ridiculed Jia Yueting for being "cracked down" in the United States.
On February 9, the relevant person in charge of FF said in an interview with the media:
"The reservation form issued by the company includes two types of paid bookings and free bookings, of which the company collects more than 14,000 FF 91 bookings, which has the information of all booking users, and this part is free booking data; and the company's public announcement of the global 300 invitation system limited edition FF 91, this part is a paid booking form."
It should be noted that this statement of the person in charge is tantamount to "self-exposure": FF 91 only has 300 appointments to really pay the deposit!
Unlike cheaper electronic products such as mobile phones, it is rare to book a vehicle without paying a penny, which is rare in the new car companies, and even Tesla needs to pay a minimum deposit of 1,000 yuan.
Of course, the person in charge also said that "at present, after investigation by a special committee of independent directors, it is believed that the 14,000 bookings previously announced by the company may be misleading, but it is not false information." ”
However, for this self-justification, many netizens do not buy it, and according to FF's plan, the first model will be officially delivered off the production line in July this year, when it is a mule or a horse to see the real chapter.