Faraday Future, a California-based company that is working on a smart car project for the last few years, has announced that the company will be using the NVIDIA Drive Orin platform for its flagship FF 91 luxury electric vehicle.
With the selection of Drive Orin SoC, the carmaker is hoping to leverage the continuous improvements and performance leaps across generations of the NVIDIA DRIVE platform. The upcoming FF 91 plans to achieve advanced highway autonomous driving capabilities and advanced parking and summon features when it goes on sale in 2022.
NVIDIA DRIVE Orin contains 21 billion transistors and integrates the NVIDIA Ampere GPU architecture, 12 Cortex-A78 ARM 64CPUs, along with deep learning and computer vision accelerators. It is claimed to deliver 254 trillion operations per second of performance.
Faraday Future is targeting more advanced autonomous driving and parking features on its future FF 81 and FF 71 vehicles, which are expected to be available in 2023 and 2024, respectively. They will also be powered by NVIDIA DRIVE Orin as the company is looking to offer high-performance and energy-efficient compute capability.
Coming to the FF 91, it will come with an industry-leading 1,050 horsepower, the largest battery pack of 130 kWh equipped with submerged liquid battery cooling technology. It can go from 0 to 60 in less than 2.4 seconds and will have a unique rear compartment intelligent internet system.
Faraday Future is currently preparing to merge with Property Solutions Acquisition Corp., which is expected to happen in the second quarter of 2021. The FF 91 is planned to be launched within 12 months of the closing of the merger.
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