Faraday Future, a California-based global shared intelligent electric mobility ecosystem company, has established Future AIHER, its new subsidiary specializing in AI hybrid extended-range electric powertrains. The new company was revealed at Faraday Future’s Open AI event, which hosted presentations and panel discussions on AI, future technologies, and industry challenges related to autonomous driving.
Future AIHER will focus its work on the development of two key products: the super AI hybrid extended-range system (abbreviated to AIHER) and a super AI extended-range system. To support these technologies, AIHER will further develop a range of dedicated powertrain solutions. Detailing the AIHER system, Faraday Future highlighted that it would comprise a fusion of hybrids and range extenders, with range-extended playing the ‘key’ role in the system, and the hybrid drive a secondary role. It further underlined the goal of its new subsidiary: to commercialize and develop AI-driven range extender systems for Extended Range Electric Vehicles (EREVs).
The company’s AI strategy is focused on full-vehicle AI integration, to which end Faraday Future is building an end-to-end AI product ecosystem driven by in-house R&D and open integration, user-specific customization, enhanced performance, open-source co-creation, and open-platform collaboration. Here, it is aiming to develop a new AI agent with intelligence near-equal to that of a human as it works towards its goal of elevating the relationship between humans and vehicles and driving the next evolution of the AI EV industry.
Faraday Future’s AI strategy is more broadly aiming to open new revenue streams, such as in-car subscriptions and AI-driven value-added services, that could also enhance user loyalty and recognition. Through this strategy, the OEM envisions its FX and FX vehicles as ‘intelligent partners’ that deploy product design focused on natural interaction methods, including voice and gesture controls. These features would, altogether, deliver intuitive, seamless interactions that can continuously improve through learning and offer personalized AI-driven experiences.
The automaker’s AI product development plan consists of four phases: AI foundation – Integrating large AI models and basic voice assistant features; Advanced multimodal AI – Enhancing human-vehicle interaction and deepening integration into driving; AIOS Platform & API – Building AI automotive operating system (AIOS) and opening APIs to encourage co-creation; and Continuous Upgrades – Improving FF’s models and expanding commercial applications across industries. Faraday Future, at the same time, plans to accelerate the launch of three core AI-powered products and deploy them in potential future FX mass-production models: 1. Designing and developing a Super AIHER system; 2. AI Cabin Agent; and 3. End-to-end open-source large model AI driving.
Future AIHER is ultimately positioning itself to lead commercialization and innovation through a two-phase strategic plan. In the short term, it will focus on integrating existing third-party range extender technology into the Faraday X (FX) concept vehicles, which Faraday Future says could enable a faster market entry. In the longer term, Future AIHER aims to design and develop its own AI-driven range extender solutions, leveraging advanced technology to enhance efficiency and potentially expand commercialization opportunities to other mobility OEMs, including those in the electric vertical takeoff and landing (EVTOL) industry.
