The 800bhp Air Grand Touring is the sweet spot, with an American EPA driving range guide of 517 miles per charge. That’s a lot of battery – what’s the driving range? So the Air is able to store as much 113kWh of juice onboard while offering loads of interior room and 739 litres of luggage capacity, split between a conventional boot and a 280-litre frunk ahead of the passenger cell. Lucid also claims the ‘race proven’ battery-pack technology is also far more compact than we’ve seen before. What does that mean? Much of it is related to the ‘Lucid Space Concept’, a ‘revolutionary approach to packaging’ that uses the ‘miniaturization’ of the drivetrain components within a skateboard-style chassis called the Lucid Electric Advanced Platform (yes, LEAP…) to maximise passenger and luggage space.Īll of the Lucid Air’s drivetrain components are developed in-house, which means the motors are smaller yet more powerful than those used by rivals. He speaks of the Air as being 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.’ The CEO and CTO of Lucid Motors is Peter Rawlinson, who was also the chief engineer for the Tesla Model S. The raw performance of the Lucid Air is really second fiddle to some of its other attributes, however. These models reckon 0-60mph in 3.2 and 3.0 seconds, and minimum top speed is 155mph the more powerful Grand Touring and Dream Edition peak at 168mph. In fact, Lucid hasn’t revealed the details of that basic Air variant, as that’s not planned for sale until 2022.īut as well as the 1,080bhp Air Dream Edition, which will only be available in limited numbers at a price of $169,000 (approximately £130,000), 2021 will also see the launch of 620bhp Air Touring and the 800bhp Air Grand Touring, priced $95,000 and $139,000, respectively (£73k and £107k at current exchange rates). You can probably also guess that the $80k version won’t have that much performance. That’s probably enough info to tell you Lucid Motors is an American firm – California-based, to be precise perhaps more useful to us is that it will do 0-60mph in 2.5 seconds.
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