Lucid

About Lucid

Lucid Motors, situated in Newark, California, may have just delivered its first vehicles in 2021, yet the company has been there since 2007.

When it originally started, Lucid—then known as Atieva—supplied electric car battery packs, controllers, and drivetrain parts. The business decided to create its vehicle in 2013 and appointed flamboyant engineer Peter Rawlinson as its chief technical officer.

Graduate of the Imperial College of London, Rawlinson first created vehicles and vehicle systems for Jaguar in the 1980s before moving on to Lotus. Before joining Tesla in 2010, he was a consultant for several other automotive projects. He was in charge of Tesla’s technical planning and Model S production. A vehicle that was feasible to live with in ways that electrics hadn’t been for a century and inherently appealing in terms of style, speed, and dynamics, the S proved to be a turning point in the history of EVs.

In 2013, Atieva got in touch with Rawlinson and persuaded him to join the business by promising to fulfill two demands: first, create a car that could compete with the most incredible luxury vehicles in the world, and second, alter the company’s name to something that didn’t seem like a yogurt brand. In 2016, the company changed its name to Lucid Motors and revealed the Lucid Air, a stunning lozenge-shaped prototype.

With almost 900 horsepower from its two motors and a zero-to-sixty duration of 2.74 seconds, Lucid’s first operating development vehicle—a minivan dubbed Edna and employing Atieva batteries—previewed the driving experience. A functional Air prototype broke the EV lap record in 2018 at the Laguna Seca racetrack in California, demonstrating the company’s commitment to high-speed travel.

In late 2019, the same year Rawlinson was appointed CEO, Lucid’s first manufacturing in Casa Grande, Arizona, was finished after many rounds of funding, including billions from Saudi Arabia’s Public funding Fund. In September of 2020, Lucid Air made its debut.

The Air, available in single and dual-motor configurations, has an enormously large interior capped by a glass roof, a soft but powerful form, and is intended to unseat the Tesla S at the top of the heap of EV luxury sedans. The early versions of the Air have more excellent range than any other electric vehicle, up to 520 miles, according to the EPA, making dual-motor models blindingly fast.

The business is developing a smaller sedan to compete with the Model 3 and a crossover SUV to take on the Tesla Model Y, which are still in development.

Customer deliveries for Lucid Air started the next month when production began in September 2021. Despite not having traditional dealerships, the corporation operated 22 Studio and Service Center sites as of February 2022, most of which were in California. For the Air, Lucid provides bumper-to-bumper and powertrain warranties of four years and 50,000 miles, respectively.