Lucid News
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Lucid has more than 30,000 reservations, and still plans to make 12,000 to 14,000 vehicles at its Arizona plant in 2022.
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Saudi Arabia agrees to buy up to 100,000 Lucid EVsThe deal includes an initial commitment of 50,000 vehicles, with an option to purchase 50,000 more, including the Lucid Air and "other future models."
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1,050-hp, 446-mile Lucid Air Grand Touring Performance keeps the Dream (Edition) aliveA tri-motor version of the Lucid Air isn't here yet, and the Dream Edition Performance is sold out. So a new Grand Touring Performance takes the top spot.
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Lucid confirms Nvidia architecture for its DreamDrive Pro driver-assistance systemDreamDrive Pro has been billed as an answer to Tesla's Autopilot, and Lucid has hinted that it might eventually exceed the capabilities of that and other systems.
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Energy, power, cells, modules, cooling: Watch Lucid's CEO give the best EV battery primer yetLucid's CEO and CTO Peter Rawlinson teaches the basics on EV batteries while showing off some of the brand's tech.
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Lucid Air: Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2022The Lucid Air gives Tesla some healthy competition, with technology that could bring about extensive change.
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The Lucid Air topped 300 kw and came close, in a real-world test, to delivering Lucid's claimed rate of up to 20 miles of range per minute.
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Lucid plans first deliveries of Air Dream Edition on Saturday, some in 520-mile formLucid says that it will deliver an undisclosed number of Air Dream Edition electric sedans as part of a rally in California with company executives.
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Top versions of Lucid Air will be first in US with lidar, company claimsLucid is betting on lidar as part of a full suite of sensors to be used by its top DreamDrive Pro hardware set for assisted-driving features.
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Lucid Air electric car: 520-mile EPA range rating ousts Tesla from top spotLucid's 520-mile range rating—from a 113-kwh battery pack—will likely make it the longest-range EV on the market and one of the most efficient.
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Lucid Air: EV-focused Pirelli tires help enable range, performance, refinementPirelli has revealed more about special performance tires co-developed with Lucid for the Air electric luxury sedan.
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Tesla Autopilot updates, Lucid gets clearer, Faraday's Future: Today's Car NewsLucid 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...
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The 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 ReverseWhich 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 MotorsThe 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...
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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...
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Lucid looking for savior, perhaps, after Ford declines to buy companyThe 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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Lucid Air electric luxury sedan: a Tesla Model S owner's takeIt’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...
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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 mph) in testing last month. Lucid Motors, formerly known as Atieva, conducted the test on the high-speed banked oval track at Ohio’s Transportation Research Center. DON'T MISS: Lucid Air luxury electric car: Bloomberg gets brief ride Speeds over 200 mph are customarily reached only by supercars...
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What Tesla hath wrought: bumper crop of luxury electric carsIt 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 $60,000The 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 rideWhen 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 roadLucid 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 reveals design for its luxury Air sedan, a Tesla competitorLucid Motors' electric luxury sedan is called the Air.
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