Faraday Future's prototype? Screenshot via Twitter We may be a step closer to seeing what the first production car from Faraday Future looks like.

A photo posted to Twitter on Monday, taken in Los Angeles, features what appears to be a midsize crossover SUV. And according to a report from Electrek, the vehicle is one of Faraday Future's.

The vehicle is a test car, decked out in the black and white camouflage that carmakers use to make it hard to see the shape of a new model clearly.

Of course, we can't say for sure that this car is Faraday Future's first model.

As with any car that's under development, this one is almost indiscernible from the outside, but there are a few reasons this could be a sign that Faraday Future is further emerging from the shadows.

For starters, Faraday Future is based in the Los Angeles area, so it makes sense that the car would first appear there.

The company gave us a big hint four months ago with this teaser image:

A teaser image of what may be Faraday Future's forthcoming production vehicle. Faraday Future

In a conversation with Business Insider in April, Faraday Future's director of communications, Stacy Morris, said the teaser image "gives you a sense of the shape" of its forthcoming production car. "You can see what the proportions are," she said.

"Our first vehicle will be at the premium end of the segment. It will be an electric vehicle," Morris said.

The timing is right

Nick Sampson, Faraday Future's senior vice president of research, development, and engineering. REUTERS/Steve Marcus

"We're testing both mechanical and software systems," Nick Sampson, Faraday Future's senior vice president of research, development, and engineering, told Business Insider in April. "Before the end of this year, we'll have full prototypes that represent our production cars."

Testing driverless technology

The company has been operating test mules for some time now. Those mules — competitors' cars with Faraday Future's hardware and software beneath the sheet metal — have undergone testing throughout the country.

Faraday Future made news in Detroit in June when it was revealed that the company sought permission to test self-driving cars there.

It was approved to test driverless cars in California the same month.

Now this

Hiding in plain sight. Screenshot via Twitter

Faraday Future representatives declined to comment on this story.

A crossover SUV isn't exactly a unique design, so this may well be some other company testing a new model. But there's a reason Faraday Future is the name that sprang to mind for several people on social media.

The secretive electric-car company made its world debut in January at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and it's been running in high gear ever since.

The company broke ground on a 900-acre assembly plant in North Las Vegas in April; added top talent from Ferrari, Apple, and Tesla, among others; and launched plans for a second factory in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Up to this point, the only thing that was missing is Faraday Future's actual cars. The only publicly known vehicle from the company is its FFZero-1 model — a "car of concepts," as the company put it — but it was not something intended for the road.

If this latest image is any indication, it would appear that Faraday Future is getting ready to hit the road.