Take a deep dive behind the scenes of the Lucid Air electric sedan and the Silicon Valley startup that makes it.
, but how it achieves them is even more so.
Small yes, but also very well financed. When you take a look at the componentry created in-house for the Lucid Air, compare it to that of rival EVs, and hear chief engineer Erik Bach describe it all, you don’t have to be an accountant to work out that corners weren’t cut for the sake of budget. The best example of this is Lucid’s motor unit , which produces a whopping 670 horsepower and weighs 163 pounds.
There are 22 of those packs in the Lucid Air Grand Touring and Grand Touring Performance, resulting in a bladder-busting range of 516 miles in the GT with 19-inch wheels, 469 in a GT with 21’s, and 446 for the Performance. The Air Pure and Touring trims have 18 packs, and, indeed, the Air was originally only intended to have 18. You see, those four extra packs in the GT models fit exactly within a gap in the overall battery array that was left to allow for the back seat footwell.
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