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Benedict Hartman, a former BMW executive, and Bob Kruse, a former Karma and chief technology officer of Qoros Motor, will join Faraday Future, according to an announcement on the website of Faraday Future (FF).

According to the official website announcement, Bob Kruse will join FF this month as vice president of product execution (engineering and manufacturing). According to reports, before joining FF, Bob had more than 30 years of professional experience in General Motors and start-ups, and served as the chief technology officer of Karma and Qoros. After entering FF, Bob will be responsible for leading the entire product development, engineering and manufacturing team of FF.

Benedict Hartman will become senior vice president of FF Global supply chain Organization in January 2020. Benedict Hartman has more than 30 years of working experience at BMW, has led a number of procurement and supplier programs, and successfully launched BMW 5-Series, X3, 3-Series and X2 models.

According to the company's latest plan, delivery of FF 91 will begin about 9 months after the successful completion of equity financing, and preparations for the development of newly announced FF 81 electric vehicles and future models, as well as the next generation of core technologies, will be completed as soon as possible.

In addition, Faraday Future announced on its official WeChat account that FF 91 will open its doors to the public for the first time from November 20 to 21 at its headquarters in Los Angeles. This is the first public display of the interior of a production car since the establishment of FF in 2014 and the launch of FF91 in 2017.

Faraday future global CEO Bifukang has said that the price of the FF91 will be more than $200000, and shipments of FF91 models will be manufactured from the Hanford plant and delivered here, which are expected to be delivered by September next year, but the volume will not be too large.

Jia Yueting also posted a video about the major development of the new car online.

Although Jia Yueting is no longer the CEO of FF, Jia Yueting still does not forget to promote the relevant progress of FF. After all, he founded the company himself.

It is understood that there will be a big auto show in Los Angeles in the last week of November. FF did not elaborate on whether FF will participate in the auto show.

Faraday Future, founded in 2013, is an American start-up focused on electric car production, according to the data. Faraday will launch its first all-new model, the FF91, in 2017, but it has not yet been mass-produced.

It is worth noting that just in the year when FF launched its first model, Jia Yueting, one of the founders of FF, was caught in a storm of public opinion because of Letv's funds. Letv's share price plummeted a year later, and senior executives left one after another. Later, Jia Yueting flew to the United States, and the court listed Jia Yueting as an executor of bad faith. Jia Yueting instantly changed from a billionaire entrepreneur to a debt-evading villain.

In September, Jia Yueting said on his Weibo that "give up everything, just to make FF, pay off the remaining guaranteed debt as soon as possible, and realize the dream of changing the auto industry."

Jia Yueting filed for personal bankruptcy reorganization in the United States in October. Under the bankruptcy plan, creditors are required to vote on whether to agree to the bankruptcy plan on November 8, 2019, and if 90% of creditors agree, the bankruptcy restructuring will be carried out in accordance with the current plan.

Jia Yueting debt handling team and FF officials have not released the relevant voting data, but there are media reports that only 23% of creditors agree with Jia Yueting's bankruptcy restructuring plan.

Recently, Jia Yueting also issued an open letter to creditors, in which Jia Yueting apologized to creditors and invited all creditors to attend FF's Los Angeles headquarters and creditors' meeting on Nov. 25, US time, in order to persuade creditors to agree to bankruptcy reorganization.

Faraday's future public display of FF91 interior Jia Yueting creditors' meeting is very close, and it is not clear whether Jia Yueting wants to show creditors the FF91, a high-end electric car developed by FF.

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