I'm beginning to believe that this enterprise is mostly focused on China. Some of the goofiness on the race car are things that nobody ever asked for, like oxygen and water, but might make sense in China to somebody.
Heck, water has been plumbed into helmets along with air filters for motorcycle racing, baja, desert etc. for years. Like their chassis, there is absolutely nothing that is unique, or hasn't been done elsewhere.
They showed a mock up at a major event (not even a running prototype) from a new company that is touted as being super duper fast, but it could have been done by any high school science fair project team.
As to all the missing pieces of infrastructure, plus any actual real cars, I predict it will take them very very long time to do anything concrete. With a guy as focused, driven and talented as Elon Musk at the helm of Tesla, it took them a long time to get many things mostly right! But, having nobody and hoping for the best is not even realistic. Again, it speaks of high school science fair planning, with the school teacher watching from a distance.
Let's face it, if they can't show us anything unique at a place where having something unique means something, like CES in Las Vegas, then it's very unlikely that have anything truly unique.
I'm truly amazed that they were able to attract talent from places like Apple, Google and Tesla... they must be very embarrassed right now. I guess as long as the money keeps rolling in, most of them will keep showing up for work until poached to the next company.
It's great that these companies use Tesla as the landmark, but it might be beneficial to actually look beyond Tesla at what's next.