Faraday Future Record Breaking Pikes Peak Run – Video

While it is still unclear whether Faraday Future will be able to get its FF 91 electric car into production anytime soon, the company at least proved that the FF 91 is pretty fast. At the recent Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, Faraday Future’s creation set a record for production-based electric cars.

Staged on the Colorado mountain of the same name, the Pikes Peak Hill Climb features a 12.42-mile course with 156 turns that climbs 4,270 feet from the starting line to the finish line. The thin air at Pikes Peak’s high altitude gives electric cars an advantage since, like people, internal-combustion engines do not do very well when deprived of oxygen. Besides the FF 91, recent all-electric entries have included purpose-built race cars, a modified Acura NSX, and a Tesla Model S, among others.

Driven by Faraday engineer Robin Shute, the FF 91 ran in Pikes Peak’s Exhibition Class. It covered the course in 11:25.083, beating the previous record for a production-based electric car by more than 20 seconds, according to Faraday. “Production-based” is key here because the FF 91 isn’t actually on sale yet.