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Lucid Air

Lucid Motors, which seeks to set new standards for sustainable transportation with its advanced luxury EVs, unveiled production details for the highly anticipated Lucid Air in a global web broadcast from its Silicon Valley headquarters. Having already set new industry benchmarks in the EV and luxury segments in key areas related to performance, efficiency, and design, deliveries of this new pure-electric luxury sedan will start in spring of 2021.

"Lucid Motors is driven to make the electric car better, and by doing so, help move the entire industry forward towards accelerated adoption of sustainable mobility. The goal of this relentless approach to developing the world's most advanced electric vehicle is to benefit all mankind with sustainable, zero emission transportation, and to also attract new customers to the world of EVs," said Peter Rawlinson, CEO and CTO, Lucid Motors. "With the Lucid Air, we have created a halo car for the entire industry, one which shows the advancements that are possible by pushing the boundaries of EV technology and performance to new levels."

Using Space to Create the Air

The Lucid Air is the result of a revolutionary approach to automotive packaging called the Lucid Space Concept, which capitalizes upon the miniaturization of Lucid's in-house developed EV drivetrain to optimize interior cabin space. The concept is central to the architecture of the Lucid Electric Advanced Platform (LEAP) upon which the Lucid Air, and forthcoming Lucid vehicles, will be built. It's a holistic, clean-sheet approach to advanced EV construction, without using existing "off the shelf" solutions so often seen in EVs from legacy automakers.

Lucid Air (2021)

With up to 1,080 horsepower available in a dual-motor, all-wheel-drive architecture, the Lucid Air is able to achieve quarter-mile times as quick as 9.9 s...

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Lucid Air: 1065bhp EV officially unveiled with 517-mile (827km) range

UK-bound Tesla Model S rival, priced from around £40,000, is the fastest-charging electric car on sale

California-based EV start-up Lucid has revealed the production version of its Air saloon, an electric performance saloon with up to 1065bhp and a claimed maximum range of 517 miles.

The marque’s debut model is claimed to be “the most aerodynamic luxury car in the world”, with a drag co-efficient of just 0.21 - 0.01 less than the new Mercedes-Benz S-Class, for reference. With an (unrestricted) top speed of 235mph, it will be the fastest electric production car on sale.

Lucid said the Air can cover a quarter-mile sprint in as little as 9.9sec, making it the first electric saloon to break the 10-second barrier, and adds that it can achieve this feat on a “consistent, repeatable basis”.

The Air will be available in four trim levels to start with. The standard car, available from $52,100 (£40,040) including the US’s EV tax credit, uses a single electric motor to send 395bhp to the rear wheels and is capable of a claimed 240-mile range from a 75kWh battery pack supplied by Samsung.

The Touring model bumps power up to 612bhp, range to 406 miles and the list price to $87,500 (£67,250), while the Grand Touring packs 789bhp, costs $131,500 (£101,060) and is capable of the maximum claimed range figure.

Lucid Air: 1065bhp EV saloon enters production in Arizona | Autocar

UK-bound Tesla Model S rival, priced from around £40,000, has a range of more than 500 miles

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Tesla's biggest threat has arrived

Tesla dominates the luxury electric vehicle space, but whereas the US-based firm's still ahead of German premium brands in terms of technology and packaging, it might now have a very credible rival from much closer to home. With a clean design and massive power, the Lucid Air is a possible Tesla-killer.

Lucid is similar to Tesla in many ways: it is based in California and has no internal combustion automotive design legacy. That allows the firm to apply blue-sky thinking to solving the problem of a luxury electric vehicle. And, after years of prototypes and teasing, Lucid has now finally revealed its Air luxury sedan, which has a deeply impressive specification.

Powering the Air is a 113-kWh battery pack, which has a larger capacity than Tesla’s most potent energy systems. In terms of range, Lucid is making very bold claims for its Air. On a mixed driving cycle, they estimate it will do 832km before requiring a recharge, besting all battery-powered rivals and embarrassing most petrol-powered limousines.

An interesting aspect of the Air is its 924-volt electrical architecture, which allows for enormous energy transfer; it should be possible to replenish 480 km's worth of driving range in only 20 minutes.

Tesla's biggest threat has arrived

Tesla dominates the luxury electric vehicle space, but whereas the US-based firm's still ahead of German premium brands in terms of technology and packaging, it might now have a very credible rival from much closer to home. With a clean design and massive power, the Lucid Air is a possible...

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The 2021 Lucid Air Challenges Tesla's Price Cuts With $69,900 Starting Price After Incentives

The price of the Tesla Model S electric sedan may have just taken a pretty healthy price cut earlier this week, but it isn’t enough to beat the new competition. The Lucid Air electric sedan will go on sale for $77,400, or $69,900 after factoring in U.S. tax credits.

From everything we’ve managed to get our hands on so far at Lucid’s California research and development office, the new Air EV seems like it could be a legitimate competitor in the luxury EV sedan space against the likes of Tesla and the upcoming EV sedans from BMW, Mercedes, Jaguar and others.

But now with specific pricing, Lucid can clearly demonstrate the value of what it’s offering against Tesla and the entirety of the established U.S. luxury vehicle market. The entry-level Air trim comes with 480 horsepower from a single-motor drivetrain capable of driving 406 miles on a charge of the vehicle’s battery pack, according to Lucid. That base model starts at $77,400 before incentives. (All range figures cited in this post are Lucid projections.)

The dual-motor, all-wheel-drive Air Touring trim starts at $95,000 before incentives, also targeting a 406-mile range but with a nice boost to 620 HP. You can reserve both trim levels now for a $300 deposit, with first deliveries of the Air planned for early next year.

The 2021 Lucid Air Challenges Tesla's Price Cuts With $69,900 Starting Price After Incentives - Jalopnik

The price of the Tesla Model S electric sedan may have just taken a pretty healthy price cut earlier this week, but it isn’t enough to beat the new competition. The Lucid Air electric sedan will go on sale for $77,400, or $69,900 after factoring in U.S. tax credits.

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Is this the greatest car configurator ever built?

The Lucid Air configurator was built by a Geordie gaming company

Remember the Lucid Air? It’s a difficult thing to forget, given that the top spec Dream Edition features a 1,080bhp dual-motor, all-wheel-drive electric drivetrain that’ll do 0-60mph in 2.5 seconds. Oh, and it has a 465-mile range and a 168mph top speed. Serious stats, those.

There’s something else mightily impressive about the California-based company too. This particular piece of innovation comes from much closer to home, though.

We’re talking about Lucid’s ridiculously cool cloud-based configurator that was designed and built by Geordie gaming company ZeroLight. Click these blue words to have a play.

Pretty stunning, isn’t it? Lucid claims that it’s the most realistic design configurator ever created. Customers can choose between different Californian backgrounds that feature moving waves and chirping birds, and the car itself is a ‘digital twin model’ that can be viewed from all angles.

Is this the greatest car configurator ever built?

The Lucid Air configurator was built by a Geordie gaming company

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Configurator

There were luxury cars, then EVs, and now there’s Lucid — the new generation of luxury electric.

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Lucid to follow 1065bhp Air with affordable mass-market EVs

CEO Peter Rawlinson plans for his company’s luxury saloon to pave the way for cheaper electric cars

American EV start-up Lucid Motors will turn its attention to developing affordable mainstream electric cars following the market launch of its flagship Air saloon.

Speaking at the SMMT Electrified conference, CEO Peter Rawlinson confirmed that the company will make cars “progressively more affordable in progressively increasing numbers” once production of the Air is under way in the second half of 2021.

Rawlinson, who served as chief engineer for the Tesla Model S, said: “Our factory in Arizona is capable of being expanded from its current guise of 34,000 units per annum. We’re taking this model: start with a high-end product and gradually make it more affordable.”

He believes the entry cost is the key driver for wider EV adoption: “I have a clarity of vision to get to the mythical $25,000 [£18,200] electric car. And it’s going to take one thing to drive it: technology.”

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CEO Peter Rawlinson plans for his company’s luxury saloon to pave the way for cheaper electric cars

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I Went For A Ride In A Lucid Air And I'm Still Thinking About It

Those who have ridden in especially powerful electric vehicles often compare their acceleration to that of a spaceship. And while that’s perhaps as overused and unrelatable as a metaphor could be (if you have traveled in a spaceship, I’d like to hear your thoughts), it does convey an otherworldly notion of speed.

Last weekend at the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance in Florida, the folks at Lucid were kind enough to take me for a spin in a pre-production prototype of its Air Grand Touring sedan. Since that ride I’ve been trying to come up with a more evocative description of the feeling of accelerating in that car, and I’m at a loss. It’s a weightless, yet planted sensation. It’s almost silent. It felt less like the car was propelling itself faster and faster, and more like it was tethered to an invisible slingshot that seemed to never stop pulling forward. Yeah, it pretty much felt like what I’d imagine it feels like to be a passenger in a spaceship.

Four years ago, before Lucid had even finalized the Air’s interior, my colleague Raph went for a ride in an engineering prototype. And although Lucid is in a far healthier position as a company today, with deliveries planned for the second half of this year, one thing that hasn’t changed in that span of time is the speed.

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Those who have ridden in especially powerful electric vehicles often compare their acceleration to that of a spaceship. And while that’s perhaps as overused and unrelatable as a metaphor could be (if you have traveled in a spaceship, I’d like to hear your thoughts), it does convey an...

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Lucid Is Still Making Its Case

The EV startup wants you to give it a chance, and it probably deserves one.

If you talk to any automaker executive, they will, without any effort, tell you that the proposition they are offering is unique to the market, usually because it has some feature the competition lacks. Lucid is no different in this respect. I just fear that it might have a slightly harder argument to make.

This is not because I think the Lucid Air — deliveries planned to begin later this year — is a bad car. Quite the opposite. The Lucid Air, which I rode in Monday afternoon in a short ride around Manhattan, seems to be a good car. (It was also a good car when we rode in one all the way back in 2017.) Its acceleration, like many EVs, is violent and quick, to the point that any quicker would probably be uncomfortable.

Inside, there is a shocking amount of space, especially in the back seat, making me think it could be a good car for luxury taxi fleets, or a good car for markets in which rich people still don’t drive themselves. Also: The screens are admirably restrained. The infotainment is based on Android, which is the world’s most popular mobile OS, which makes me think that it’ll be both functional and good.

The range — not yet EPA-estimated, though Lucid says in similar tests it gets around 500 miles — is impressive, and is long enough that the Lucid Air would probably be just fine on a road trip with some planning. The car looks good. (It looked good in 2016, too, when we first saw this design.) The car has a big trunk and a big frunk, and it’s likely that for many thousands of miles the only thing you have to replace are the windshield wipers and wiper fluid. Depending on how you drive, the regenerative braking system could render the traditional braking system redundant.

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If you talk to any automaker executive, they will, without any effort, tell you that the proposition they are offering is unique to the market, usually because it has some feature the competition lacks. Lucid is no different in this respect. I just fear that it might have a slightly harder...

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The Lucid Air Dream Edition Is Two Cars​

But the slower Air Dream Edition Range still has 933 horsepower, so don't worry.​

The major bullet points surrounding the range-topping version of the Lucid Air, the Dream Edition, have been making the rounds for a while now: 1,080horsepower, more than 500 miles of range on a single charge and 0-60 MPH in two-and-a-half seconds. But the sedan’s been delayed a few times, and deliveries have shifted to the end of this year. In the meantime, Lucid’s had to tweak those estimates a bit, though the changes are so minimal that I don’t think anyone’s going to care much.

It turns out that Lucid can’t quite guarantee that power and range in the same vehicle, so it’s going to offer Air Dream Edition reservation holders a choice. The Air Dream Edition P, for Performance, will churn 1,111 horsepower at a penalty to efficiency, though Lucid isn’t saying how steep that penalty will be yet. The Air Dream Edition R, for Range, will top out at 933 HP and the company expects it to make good on that 500-mile target, and then some.

It’s a distinction I’m not entirely sure Lucid needs to make for its customers, but it’s gone ahead and made it anyway because numbers are everything in the EV arms race. The P and R models cost the same, at a “fully equipped price of $169.000.” Lucid says it will reach out to prospective customers about their preference shortly.


Now, anytime a manufacturer adjusts numbers like these right before it releases a vehicle, there’s bound to be some skepticism. But either way, it doesn’t sound like a major loss. I mean, the Range one still has almost 1,000 horsepower. For reference, the Tesla Model S Plaid has 1,020 HP and can go 396 miles on a charge. On the flip side, either Air Dream Edition costs $40,000 more than the Plaid does.

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The major bullet points surrounding the range-topping version of the Lucid Air, the Dream Edition, have been making the rounds for a while now: 1,080 horsepower, more than 500 miles of range on a single charge and 0-60 MPH in two-and-a-half seconds. But the sedan’s been delayed a few times, and...

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The All-Electric Lucid Air Just Received A Staggering EPA Range Rating Of 520 Miles​

That is over 100 miles farther than the range-iest Tesla.​

The Lucid Air Dream Edition, which is planning to begin deliveries later this year, gets 520 miles of EPA-estimated range, Lucid announced Thursday. The figure, already on the EPA’s Fueleconomy.gov website, is 115 miles higher than that of the longest-range Tesla, which is the benchmark in the industry.

This is something of a feather in the cap of Lucid, which has been making its case in recent months in the run up to the Air’s release. Lucid’s case is all about interior room (there is a shocking amount of it) and also range, with the company spiking the football a bit Thursday with its announcement:

The results are in, and Lucid Air Dream Edition R has exceeded expectations. With 520 miles on a single charge, it’s achieved a record-breaking official EPA range rating, making it the first electric car ever to breach 500 miles.* That bests the closest competitors by over 100 miles, and means you could go from Los Angeles to San Francisco without stopping.
“I’m delighted that our Lucid Air Dream Edition Range has been officially accredited with a range of 520 miles by the EPA, a number I believe to be a new record for any EV. Crucially, this landmark has been achieved by Lucid’s world-leading, in-house EV technology, not by simply installing an oversize battery pack,” said Peter Rawlinson, CEO and CTO, Lucid Group. “Our race-proven 900V battery and BMS technology, our miniaturized drive units, coupled with our Wunderbox technology endow Lucid Air with ultra-high efficiency, enabling it to travel more miles from less battery energy. The next generation EV has truly arrived!”

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The Lucid Air Dream Edition, which is planning to begin deliveries later this year, gets 520 miles of EPA-estimated range, Lucid announced Thursday. The figure, already on the EPA’s Fueleconomy.gov website, is 115 miles higher than that of the longest-range Tesla, which is the benchmark in the...

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Lucid Air: 1065bhp EV saloon enters production in Arizona

UK-bound Tesla Model S rival, priced from around £40,000, has a range of more than 500 miles

California-based EV start-up Lucid has begun production of its Air saloon, an electric performance saloon with up to 1065bhp and a claimed maximum range of more than 500 miles.

The first cars off the line are the top-spec, limited-run Dream Edition models, which will be with their customers at the end of October. Grand Touring, Touring, and Air Pure variants will follow, with Lucid claiming to have taken 13,000 reservations already.

The marque’s debut model is claimed to be “the most aerodynamic luxury car in the world”, with a drag co-efficient of just 0.21 - 0.01 less than the new Mercedes-Benz S-Class, for reference. With an (unrestricted) top speed of 235mph, it will be the fastest electric production car on sale.

Lucid said the Air can cover a quarter-mile sprint in as little as 9.9sec, making it the first electric saloon to break the 10-second barrier, and adds that it can achieve this feat on a “consistent, repeatable basis”.

The Air will be available in four trim levels to start with. The standard car, available from $52,100 (£40,040) including the US’s EV tax credit, uses a single electric motor to send 395bhp to the rear wheels and is capable of a claimed 240-mile range from a 75kWh battery pack supplied by Samsung.

Lucid Air: 1065bhp EV saloon enters production in Arizona | Autocar

UK-bound Tesla Model S rival, priced from around £40,000, has a range of more than 500 miles

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Lucid Motors Is Delivering Cars to Customers Now

Now the challenge is going to be how they can scale up production

Over the weekend, Lucid Motors tweeted a photo of what appears to be several production versions of its all-electric Air sedan on a truck, ready for transport. We’ve reached out to Lucid to confirm this is the case, and we’ll update this article if we hear back.

But it makes sense that cars would begin to find their way into customers’ hands since, as we previously reported, production of the Air officially began at the end of September. The timing is also right in line with the earlier announcement that deliveries would begin in late October.

(Update: Lucid confirmed these are indeed customer cars and says more information on production numbers will be announced later this week.)

If you’re not already familiar with Lucid Motors, it’s an electric startup that we first heard about back in 2016. Lucid’s first concept was called the Air, an electric sedan that the company claimed would make 1,000 hp and have 400 miles of range. It’s been a while since the initial 2016 reveal, and the initial 2018 production date has long since passed, but considering how many EV startups have failed to even get to production in the first place, this is a seriously impressive milestone for the company.

That said, in the years since Lucid’s original announcement, the Air’s production specs have changed a bit. The most efficient version has an EPA estimated range of 520 miles, with that range dropping to a still-impressive 451 miles if you pick the Air Dream Edition Performance.

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Lucid Is Trying To Be The Normal EV Company

In a new interview, Lucid's CEO sounds very well-adjusted.

Peter Rawlinson is the CEO of Lucid, and a former engineer at Tesla, who is said to be obsessed with beating his former boss Elon Musk in the EV game. The jury is still out on that, but, if a new interview is anything to go by, Rawlinson is already winning when it comes to who you might want to root for.

And who you would rather have as a boss. Rawlinson spoke with The New York Times, and described his management style like this:

Mr. Rawlinson, who comes across as good humored but intense and detail oriented, is self-effacing in a way that Mr. Musk is not. He says, for example, that he wants to hire people who are smarter than he is.
“If I’ve done my job right, I’ll be the dumbest guy left in the room and I can walk out and throw away the key and leave them to it,” Mr. Rawlinson said with a laugh.

Elon sees his job, meanwhile, as the exact opposite of that, which is probably why Tesla tends to churn through employees, and also why Rawlinson himself left.

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Peter Rawlinson is the CEO of Lucid, and a former engineer at Tesla, who is said to be obsessed with beating his former boss Elon Musk in the EV game. The jury is still out on that, but, if a new interview is anything to go by, Rawlinson is already winning when it comes to who you might want to...

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