Lucid Gravity SUV replace due Nov. 15 at Air lineup launch

Lucid on Thursday confirmed that it plans to point out its extra inexpensive Air Pure and Air Touring fashions with a digital occasion on November 15 and a corresponding dwell reveal on the model’s retailer in Beverly Hills, California. Additionally at this occasion it can current an replace on the Undertaking Gravity SUV that is constructed on the identical suite of efficiency-focused know-how that underpins the Air lineup.

Lucid will present its tri-motor, top-performance Air Sapphire, alongside the Pure and Touring variations. With the Grand Touring and Touring Efficiency fashions additionally on show, will probably be the primary time the complete lineup has been proven in public, the corporate says.

Whereas the $108,900 Touring model might be the closest match versus the present Tesla Mannequin S, the bottom Lucid Air Pure begins at $88,900, together with a $1,500 vacation spot charge. As such, the Pure undercuts the Tesla Mannequin S by greater than $17,000. 

Whereas present Grand Touring variations of the Lucid Air include a 112-kwh battery pack, permitting as much as 516 miles, the Pure and Air Touring have a smaller 88-kwh pack. They’ll return a 406-mile projected (however not but finalized) EPA vary, when outfitted with 19-inch wheels, Lucid says. That’s one mile higher than Tesla earns with the Mannequin S, on roughly a tenth much less vitality.

The Pure, supplied initially in dual-motor kind however with a single-motor rear-wheel-drive model on the best way, can also be the primary Air mannequin distinguished by a strong aluminum roof, as a substitute of the glass cover roof constructed into Dream Version and Grand Touring fashions. The strong roof is coming to mid-range Touring variations later, nevertheless it’s the one manner the Pure will likely be constructed.