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Ex-Faraday Future Employees Will Keep The Dream Alive At New Electric Car Startups
Ex-Faraday Future Employees Will Keep The Dream Alive At New Electric Car Startups-February 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:10:38

Two new startups are joining the electric car world—and both include executives and employees who recently departed Faraday Future, according to a new report and a source who spoke to Jalopnik.

The news comes just a month after a round of top executives departed the company, including former chief financial officer, Stefan Krause. Krause left the company in October, but news of his departure wasn’t learned until Jalopnik .

One startup, Indi EV, launched this fall and is being backed by Chinese entrepreneurs, according to a source who spoke to Jalopnik. A review of listings on LinkedIn shows the company is stacked with former Faraday employees. Steve Osario, Faraday’s former head of design operations and advanced model development, is Indi EV’s chief operating officer and Steven Offutt, a former senior manager at FF, is now working as Indi EV’s manufacturing leader.

Documents filed with the California Secretary of State show Indi EV was incorporated in August. Just last week, in a brief filing, the company said it’s in the business of electric vehicle design and manufacturing. lays out a number of job listings and portrays the company as fiercely independent.

Indi EV is a small group of automotive designers, engineers and manufacturers who have decided to break away from the stagnate world of automotive mega corps and OEMS. Our team has come together to focus their talents on developing a new method that will put electric vehicles within reach of everyday consumers. We believe that in the future, electric vehicles will pave way to more advanced manufacturing and ownership solutions. The world will no longer depend on a few giant auto manufacturers. Instead, it will turn to independent brands who can adapt quickly and stay in stride with new tech

A message to Indi EV’s boilerplate email address was not immediately returned.

Separately, Krause has apparently started a new venture with a funky name, .

Sources say that he was able to raise funds using the groundwork that he had done on the previous deals that he tried to close for FF, but that ended up failing due to disagreements with YT.

With a reportedly significant financial backing and preferring Krause’s leadership over YT’s, sources say that several high-profile Faraday Future executives and employees are following Krause to EVELOZCITY and that more could come.

is indeed sparse, and includes job listings and a “vision” that says it aims to: “Design, develop and deliver the most competitive, capable, connected and clean mobility device for the next generation.”

Sounds very much like a Faraday spin-off. A request for comment sent to EVELOZCITY was not immediately returned.

Electrek reported that Richard Kim, , is joining the new startup.

A WHOIS search shows the startup’s website was created in recent weeks and records filed with the Delaware Division of Corporations show the company was incorporated on November 7, about three weeks after Krause left the company.

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