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Faraday Future Founder and Co-CEO YT Jia Shares Weekly Investor Update: Reaffirms FF’s Commitment to Both the New Robotics Business and Existing Vehicle Business, Which Achieved a Milestone Relating to the FX Super One to be Announced Next Tuesday

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Faraday Future Founder and Co-CEO YT Jia Shares Weekly Investor Update: Reaffirms FF’s Commitment to Both the New Robotics Business and Existing Vehicle Business, Which Achieved a Milestone Relating to the FX Super One to be Announced Next Tuesday
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Faraday Future Founder and Co-CEO YT Jia Shares Weekly Investor Update: Reaffirms FF’s Commitment to Both the New Robotics Business and Existing Vehicle Business, Which Achieved a Milestone Relating to the FX Super One to be Announced Next Tuesday

2026-02-09 09:23 Last Updated At:13:07

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 8, 2026--

Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. (NASDAQ: FFAI) (“Faraday Future”, “FF” or the “Company”), a California-based global shared intelligent electric mobility ecosystem company, today shared a weekly business update from YT Jia, Founder and Global Co-CEO of FF.

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“This week, the launch of FF’s EAI Robotics products generated stronger-than-expected engagement. We trended at the top of major platforms across multiple channels. Thank you, sincerely, for following our progress and for your support of FF and me. I believe FF’s operating fundamentals are improving.

That said, in the capital markets, recent broad volatility has driven short-term sentiment swings. FFAI experienced a substantial increase in trading volume and short selling, and our share price experienced abnormal volatility and closed below $1.00 the last two trading days.

Our EAI Robotics strategy has been very well received in the private markets, with overall recognition meaningfully stronger than what we saw in the public market this week. In other words, the feedback from the private market and the public market was completely opposite. I want to reflect on this: we did not communicate and explain the strategy clearly enough to the public, and that information gap led to deeper concerns and even misunderstandings. I’ve seen comments such as: “Are you getting distracted again?” “Is FF no longer focused on vehicles?” or “Is something wrong with the vehicle business?”

The answer to each question is “no.” Our robotics business is an upgrade to our overall EAI strategy and our bridge strategy. It does not distract us from our vehicle business. Rather, we believe it can empower the vehicle business across multiple dimensions, including business execution, capital strategy, financial structure, product, and technology, among others.

Here comes a big teaser, on the same day of the robotics event, we achieved a milestone relating to the Super One. We will announce the full details after market close next Tuesday. Stay tuned.

We firmly believe that with the build-out of our Dual-Bridge, Dual-Flywheel, Dual-Public-Company ecosystem, and with EAI EV and EAI Robotics now both activated, FFAI has undergone a fundamental and systemic upgrade. We are highly confident that this year will be FF’s momentum-building year, and we are going all-in to position FF to take off next year. We firmly oppose any stock split and will be prudent with our equity issuances. We remain committed to putting stockholders first and will do everything we can to safeguard stockholder interests.

We believe that as our business executes, delivers, and makes tangible progress, the strategy will become clearer—and many investors will return to support us. We will do everything we can to create greater value for stockholders.

We will take four major initiatives to protect our stockholders:

1. I affirm once again: FF firmly opposes any reverse stock split, unless required to comply with Nasdaq’s continued listing standards. We remain fully committed to maintaining or timely regaining listing compliance as a public company and delivering value to stockholders, continuing to strengthen our response in the battle against malicious short selling, accelerating FF’s value return, and narrowing the gap between capital market valuation and intrinsic business value—while striving to create even greater breakthroughs. Under Nasdaq regulations, if the closing share price remains below $1 for more than 30 consecutive trading days, a deficiency notice is automatically triggered, and the Company is granted no less than 180 days to regain listing compliance. We firmly believe that our four key initiatives will enable the Company to continuously strengthen its operating fundamentals while maintaining more effective and transparent communication with our stockholders and retail investors, thereby ensuring that reducing the likelihood that the Company does not trigger any Nasdaq compliance issues.

2. From a mid to long-term perspective, the robotics business could serve as a new source of cash inflow and a new growth curve, enabling FFAI stockholders to capture long-term value from the next significant market opportunity, while also potentially providing greater financial flexibility and strategic support for the vehicle business.

3. At the business level, we are accelerating the mutual empowerment between our vehicle and robotics businesses under a “dual-engine EAI framework”. From our perspective, vehicles and robots have evolved into fundamentally similar products—both are EAI terminals. As a result, there’s significant overlap across R&D, sales, and service, allowing the two businesses to generate strong synergies.

The significant progress we have made at the NADA Show has further reinforced our confidence that this is a mutual empowerment rather than one business coming at the expense of the other. On February 5, we successfully hosted a dealer summit for FX Super One and FF EAI robotics. Dozens of automotive dealers from across the United States attended the event and expressed interest in FF’s proprietary FF Par sales model. Multiple dealers have already clearly expressed their intent to enter into comprehensive “robot & vehicle +” cooperation agreements. Notably, many U.S dealers, driven by strong interest in robotics collaboration, have further deepened their engagement with our vehicle business. This is a clear demonstration of how the robotics business can in turn empower the vehicle business, and we believe it serves as one of the strongest validations of our innovative model and differentiated products.

4. We will continue to enhance transparent communication with our stockholders and retail investors, helping the market better understand the unique advantages and intrinsic value of our strategy and business model. At the same time, if you become aware of any potentially illegal short-selling activity, we encourage you to reach out to us immediately.

FX Super One will roll out SOD Phase 1 in Q2. At the same time, our robotics business is set to start deliveries by the end of February, initially targeting high-frequency scenarios with the greatest potential for scale and market impact—such as dealership and showroom reception, as well as home security. The goal is to go deep, make it comprehensive, and establish benchmark use cases.

This year, we will remain fully committed to executing relentlessly on the homologation, initial production, and delivery of FX Super One, as well as sales and deliveries of our robotics products. We will remain focused on strengthening both our operating and capital fundamentals, while going all out to maximize value for our stockholders.”

ABOUT FARADAY FUTURE

Faraday Future is a California-based global intelligent Company founded in 2014 and is dedicated to reshaping the future of mobility through vehicle electrification, intelligent technologies, and AI innovation. Its flagship vehicle, the FF 91, began deliveries in 2023 and reflects the brand’s pursuit of ultra-luxury, cutting-edge technology, and high performance. FF’s second brand, FX, targets the high-volume mainstream vehicle market. Its first model, Super One, is positioned as a first-class EAI-MPV, with deliveries planned to begin in 2026. FF recently announced its entry into the Embodied AI Robotics business with sales beginning this year, connecting its future strategy of bringing a new era of EAI vehicles and EAI robotics. For more information, please visit https://www.ff.com/

FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS

This press release includes “forward looking statements” within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. When used in this press release, the words “plan to,” “can,” “will,” “should,” “future,” “potential,” and variations of these words or similar expressions (or the negative versions of such words or expressions) are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements, which include statements regarding; FX Super One production and delivery, entry into the embodied AI robotics market, and continued Nasdaq compliance, involve a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other important factors, many of which are outside the Company’s control, which could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements.

Important factors, among others, that may affect actual results or outcomes include: demand for our robotics products; competition in the robotics industry, which includes companies with far superior experience, funding and name recognition; our reliance on a single OEM for robotics products; our ability to get the planned robotics products to comply with all applicable U.S. rules and regulations; the ability of the robotics OEM to timely supply robotics to the Company; tariff uncertainty for imported products, particularly from China; demand from automobile dealers for robotics products; the Company’s ability to maintain its listing on Nasdaq; the availability of sufficient share capital to execute on its strategy, which the Company currently lacks; the agreement of stockholders to substantially increase the Company’s share capital, which could result in substantial additional dilution; the Company's ability to homologate FX vehicles for sale; the Company’s ability to secure the necessary funding to execute on the FX strategy, which will be substantial; the Company’s ability to secure an occupancy certificate for its Hanford facility; the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern and improve its liquidity and financial position; the Company’s ability to pay its outstanding obligations; the Company's ability to remediate its material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting and the risks related to the restatement of previously issued consolidated financial statements; the Company’s limited operating history and the significant barriers to growth it faces; the Company’s history of losses and expectation of continued losses; the success of the Company’s payroll expense reduction plan; the Company’s ability to execute on its plans to develop and market its vehicles and the timing of these development programs; the Company’s estimates of the size of the markets for its vehicles and cost to bring those vehicles to market; the rate and degree of market acceptance of the Company’s vehicles; the Company’s ability to cover future warranty claims; the success of other competing manufacturers; the performance and security of the Company’s vehicles; current and potential litigation involving the Company; the Company’s ability to receive funds from, satisfy the conditions precedent of and close on the various financings described elsewhere by the Company; the result of future financing efforts, the failure of any of which could result in the Company seeking protection under the Bankruptcy Code; the Company’s indebtedness; the Company’s ability to cover future warranty claims; the Company’s ability to use its “at-the-market” program; insurance coverage; general economic and market conditions impacting demand for the Company’s products; potential negative impacts of a reverse stock split; potential cost, headcount and salary reduction actions may not be sufficient or may not achieve their expected results; circumstances outside of the Company's control, such as natural disasters, climate change, health epidemics and pandemics, terrorist attacks, and civil unrest; risks related to the Company's operations in China; the success of the Company's remedial measures taken in response to the Special Committee findings; the Company’s dependence on its suppliers and contract manufacturer; the Company's ability to develop and protect its technologies; the Company's ability to protect against cybersecurity risks; and the ability of the Company to attract and retain employees, any adverse developments in existing legal proceedings or the initiation of new legal proceedings, and volatility of the Company’s stock price. You should carefully consider the foregoing factors and the other risks and uncertainties described in the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 31, 2025, and Form 10-Qs for the quarters ended June 30, 2025 and September 30, 2025 filed with the SEC on May 9, 2025, August 19, 2025 and November 21, 2025, respectively, and other documents filed by the Company from time to time with the SEC.

Faraday Future Founder and Co-CEO YT Jia Shares Weekly Investor Update: Reaffirms FF’s Commitment to Both the Newly Introduced Robotics Business and Existing Vehicle Business, Which Achieved a Milestone Relating to the FX Super One to be Announced Next Tuesday

Faraday Future Founder and Co-CEO YT Jia Shares Weekly Investor Update: Reaffirms FF’s Commitment to Both the Newly Introduced Robotics Business and Existing Vehicle Business, Which Achieved a Milestone Relating to the FX Super One to be Announced Next Tuesday

NEW YORK (AP) — Jack Hughes held the ball in his hands, occasionally tossing his latest souvenir in the air.

Hughes had done “Saturday Night Live” and cherished the chance to chat with Lorne Michaels, then appeared on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” as part of the victory lap for the U.S. Olympic gold medal-winning men’s and women’s hockey teams. It only got better Friday when Hughes and women's goaltender Aerin Frankel threw out ceremonial first pitches at Yankee Stadium before the New York Yankees' home opener against the Miami Marlins.

“I knew a lot of things were coming, but this was the one thing I was always like wishing-slash-hoping for,” Hughes said. "Just so much fun. For both of us, it’s unreal."

Hughes scored in overtime in the men's final at the Milan Cortina Games, a few days after Frankel backstopped the women's team to also beating Canada for gold. It's the first time the U.S. has won double gold in the sport at the Olympics, and the sled hockey team made it a clean sweep at the Paralympics.

Frankel said her life hasn't changed much since other than seeing the impact the physical gold medal has on people who had never seen one.

“It’s cool to see how special that is for them,” said Frankel, who plays for the PHWL's Boston Fleet. “We’ve been super busy jumping back into pro seasons and stuff and making time for really cool opportunities like this.”

Frankel is from Westchester County and grew up in a family of Yankees fans. Hughes has become one over the seven years he has been in the area as the face of the franchise for the NHL’s New Jersey Devils.

Hughes played some baseball growing up, but needed to get his right throwing arm warmed up.

“We played in Dallas last week and my trainer ‘Frosty’ (Chris Scoppetto) brought gloves and I threw like 50 pitches right before morning skate,” Hughes said. “My shoulder was so sore, so I was like, ‘We’ve got to cool it.'”

Hughes' shoulder was fine. He scored twice that night against the Stars and had a five-point game Thursday night on the eve of his big baseball day.

Less than 24 hours after making 22 saves in a 3-0 shutout win over Winnipeg and U.S. Olympic starter Connor Hellebuyck, Oettinger threw a strike on his pitch from the top of the mound before the Texas Rangers' home opener. He got a loud ovation, with chants of “U-S-A!” when he was introduced.

That came after the national anthem, during which Rangers fans, like those at Stars games, yelled “Stars!” at both times that phrase came up in the song.

Oettinger wore his U.S. jersey and gold medal that everybody wants to see. Like Frankel, he said the coolest part to him is letting “other people wear it or take pictures with it and how excited they get. ... It just shows you how big the Olympics are. I think when you’re over there playing in it, you don’t really realize the magnitude, and then you get back and see how much it means to everyone is the best part.”

Oettinger, who played baseball until he was about 12, said he threw some Thursday with his younger brother, Thomas, who soon will turn 12. His brother was with him on the field and when they met former president George W. Bush, the former Rangers owner who was also at the game

“Brought my little brother and I got to take him through the clubhouse, and just a first-class organization,” Oettinger said. “Got to meet President Bush, so it has been a great day.”

A little over six weeks since scoring the tying goal late in the gold-medal game on a deflection of captain Hilary Knight's shot, Cleveland Heights' Laila Edwards got a rousing ovation for her first pitch from the mound over the plate before the Guardians' home opener.

“It’s so exciting, especially growing up and being a fan of Cleveland baseball,” Edwards said. “I played baseball in the backyard with my brother. He’s jealous, but I have to make him proud.”

Edwards, who's 22 and considered Knight's successor as the face of women's hockey in the U.S., has done a lot of winning so far this year. She helped Wisconsin to the second of back-to-back national titles, an experience she called surreal.

“I’m having so much fun and being grateful,” Edwards said. “We got back from the Olympics and three days later we were starting NCAA playoffs, so there was no rest there. That’s what we signed up for. And then to be able to win and meant everything."

AP Baseball Writer Stephen Hawkins in Arlington, Texas, and AP Sports Writer Joe Reedy in Cleveland contributed to this report.

AP NHL: https://apnews.com/hub/NHL

Olympic gold medal hockey player Laila Edwards throws out a ceremonial first pitch before an opening day baseball game between the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Guardians in Cleveland, Friday, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Olympic gold medal hockey player Laila Edwards throws out a ceremonial first pitch before an opening day baseball game between the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Guardians in Cleveland, Friday, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Dallas Stars goaltender Jake Oettinger throws a ceremonial first pitch prior to the Texas Rangers' home-opener baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds, Friday, April 3, 2026, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Dallas Stars goaltender Jake Oettinger throws a ceremonial first pitch prior to the Texas Rangers' home-opener baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds, Friday, April 3, 2026, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

New Jersey Devils' Jack Hughes looks on during batting practice before his ceremonial first pitch for the home-opener baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Miami Marlins, Friday, April 3, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

New Jersey Devils' Jack Hughes looks on during batting practice before his ceremonial first pitch for the home-opener baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Miami Marlins, Friday, April 3, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

New Jersey Devils' Jack Hughes practices ahead of his first pitch before a home-opener baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Miami Marlins, Friday, April 3, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

New Jersey Devils' Jack Hughes practices ahead of his first pitch before a home-opener baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Miami Marlins, Friday, April 3, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

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