The Lucid name has been around for quite a few years - the number "four" roughly comes to mind - and, unlike that of other EV startups that sprung up around the same time, it refuses to go away. I swear, not throwing a "like a cockroach" in there was very tough, but I'm glad I pulled it off.
Jokes aside, it's actually nice to see the company still running around, especially when you suddenly flick the lights on in the kitchen (I'll stop). Let's face it: given a choice to save only one, who would you have picked between Lucid and Faraday Future? Based strictly on the products they put forward, the choice was simple: one was among the most beautiful sedans ever designed, the other couldn't make up its mind whether it was a crossover or something new entirely.
There's still a long way to go for Lucid and its first intended model, the Air, and a lot of things can yet go wrong. However, just from what we can count in this very short clip, the company has put together at least 17 more vehicles than the defunct Faraday, and it has gone past the plain and simple prototype testing phase and into the one Elon Musk famously skipped altogether for the Tesla Model 3: beta.
That means the people who live in the right place are likely to have their eyes graced by one or more of these things in the coming days, en-route to a planned commercial release later this year. Assuming, of course, that everything goes to plan during this stage.
As much as we like the car's looks, it's the specs sheet that has us worried. No, it's not that it's underpowered and can't go a block without having to recharge - quite the contrary. It almost sounds too good to be true. With 1,000 hp of electric power available and a maximum range of at least 400 miles (640 km), the Lucid Air would instantly become the EV of choice. And while the price is steep, it doesn't involve any body parts. It should be over $100,000, but then again you would expect it to be given it theoretically outperforms any other similar vehicle out there in any conceivable way.
Let's just hope it all goes to plan and they start to multiply like cockroaches, so we'll begin to see this very sexy-looking electric sedan on the roads as quickly and as often as possible. 1,000 hp and 400 miles of range or not.
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