Lucid Motors
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Lucid Motors gets funding to build its Air. Faraday Future releases details on the future product it plans to build for China. Tesla has updated its Navigate on Autopilot system to be a little more autonomous. And we look at why the federal tax credit may need limits. All this and more on Green Car Reports. An update to Tesla's Navigate on Autopilot system will allow the cars to follow a route on the highway without driver intervention, even when it requires changing lanes. Lucid Motors announced that a $1 billion investment from the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund is complete, funding...
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Lucid Motors gets real as Saudi funding comes throughThe Lucid Air could soon make it to production, and shape up to be the closest rival to the Tesla Model S.
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Volkswagen electrics, Musk sued, BMW i3 range increase, California incentives: The Week in Reverse
Which electric car will get access to a fast charger network much like Teslas? What was the result of the SEC's investigation into Tesla chief Elon Musk? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending Sept. 28, 2018. Friday, Volkswagen...
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Saudi investment fund reportedly wants stake in Lucid Motors
The Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund may be planning to buy a stake in potential Tesla rival Lucid Motors, according to a Reuters report. Tesla CEO Elon Musk suggested last week that he had held talks with the same Saudi investment fund. The report says that the fund has drawn up a term sheet to...
Eric C. Evarts -
Odds for auto startups are incredibly high; can Tesla beat them?
Much of the energy and growth in the U.S. economy comes not from large corporations but from small startup companies, as economic data shows. By now, the model of a young, energetic entrepreneur with a bright idea who turns it into a world-changing business is well established. Think Facebook or...
John Voelcker -
Lucid looking for savior, perhaps, after Ford declines to buy company
The image of the electric car as the future of passenger vehicles has led to a wealth of start-up companies hoping to cash in on the newest type of automotive propulsion. Starting a company—an automobile company at that—is not an easy task, however. Now Lucid Motors (nee Atieva) may be...
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It’s a cool spring morning in Menlo Park, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley. In a two-story concrete-and-glass building on Constitution Avenue, just down the block from Facebook’s vast fortress, a group of automotive engineers and designers is working to create the next-generation luxury high-performance all-electric sedan. A Tesla Model S version 2.0, if you will. DON'T MISS: Have Tesla Model S, Model X electric-car sales plateaued? (Update) But although there’s a Model S v1.0 parked in an engineering workspace on the first floor of the building, this...
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Luxury electric Lucid Air sedan hits 217 mph in stability test
Only a handful of people have ridden in one outside the company, but development of the Lucid Air luxury electric sedan seems to be proceeding apace. The company said yesterday at the New York auto show that a development prototype had reached an electronically limited top speed of 350 km/h (217...
John Voelcker -
What Tesla hath wrought: bumper crop of luxury electric cars
It may have taken some time, but the auto industry is now reacting to Tesla in full force. More than four years after the first Tesla Model S was delivered, we are on the verge of a bumper crop of luxury electric cars. A mix of established automakers and startups looking to emulate Tesla's success...
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Lucid Air priced slightly below Tesla Model S at $60,000
The Lucid Air electric car will be available in a base model with less power and a lower range than the high-end model unveiled last year, but at a much lower price. A Lucid Motors press release confirmed the Air base model will start at $52,500, after the $7,500 federal tax credit for electric...
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Lucid Air luxury electric car: Bloomberg gets brief ride
When it comes to luxury electric-car startups, hype is the name of the game. Lucid Motors unveiled its Air luxury sedan in December, promising a range of up to 400 miles, power of 1,000 horsepower, and cutting-edge technology. But very few people outside the company have gotten more than a glimpse...
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Lucid Air electric car video shows luxury sedan on the road
Lucid Motors, the California automotive startup formerly known as Atieva, unveiled its Air electric car in December 2016. But so far, the car hasn't been seen on public roads. Lucid has now rectified that by releasing a video that shows its luxury sedan driving around the San Francisco Bay Area...
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Lucid Motors' electric luxury sedan is called the Air.
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Lucid electric 'executive sedan': 100-kwh battery, 1,000-hp motor
The base version of Lucid Motors' electric car will have 1,000 hp and a 100-kWh battery pack.
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Lucid (nee Atieva) to build luxury electric cars in Arizona factory
Lucid Motors will build its electric-car factory in Arizona.
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Atieva now Lucid Motors; plans 300-mile, 900-hp electric car
Atieva is now Lucid Motors.
Stephen Edelstein
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