Obviously the chops to build a great car. The tough part is manufacturing, lowering cost and bring it to market. Best of luck to Lucid in making that happen.
@joebob Saudi Arabia invested over a billion in Lucid. BTW they also own most pet food, frozen pizza and makeup companies and bottled water companies in the USA.
First be able to mass-produce Batteries, second produce cars on a scale, third come to market, and show how good you are. Then we can have an opinion. I just see great specs like always.
I hope Lucid gets going again after the pandemic (unlikely I know), because it would be nice for Tesla to have a real competitor that's similar to them but have touched Motorsport, not just the old car manufacturers with batteries.
I hope so too, and I don't think it's unlikely! There's a good chance the pandemic will result in production getting pushed back once again and starting early 2021, but I have a suspicion it'll be worth the wait
We have been watching and waiting for this car to come out we would love one ourselves. We live in New Zealand and hope to see them coming in to our country as soon as they can send them. The Lucid is brilliant and beautiful.
kedean Duffus ...Lucid will probably be closer to $150,000 with options ...eventually investors. will want a return on investment...and then we will see an ipo...stay away as it’s all manipulated...
There are only two ICE cars on the market at or under $15K: the Mitsubishi Mirage (78 hp) and the Chevrolet Spark (98 hp) . You may have to wait a while.
@@blakespringpasturemortimer9168 : ford fiesta $14,260, Nissan Versa $14,730, Hyundi Accent $14,995. ======= Kia Rio $15,750 Toyota Yaris $15,650 more than a few cars in the price range. smart car is still being sold and the new smart electric is coming out.
@@kenjsr1 Tesla will likely do almost EXACTLY that by importing Chinese Built 20K Teslas..... or bringing them in as a kit, completing here, and calling it "Made in USA with Global Components"
@@GSP-76 what tesla costs 100 thousand none. This lucid air sir will be 100 thousand. Little different market. Room for both companies to flourish. The tesla roadster will be 200 thousand but 3 years away. More important projects for tesla moneg making wise
According to their CEO and CFO, Lucid Motors is in a financial sound position all the way up to the initial start of production of their Air, all they need is the pandemic to come down to get their car to market, I’m excited for them!
The Lucid Air is a beautiful car, so in 2020 it wins the beauty contest against the 8 year old Tesla. But I remember how impressed I was when it was introduced in 2012. One of my gripes against Tesla these days is that they've been relying on the same styling themes since then. In my opinion, the Model 3 and the Model X don't wear the design nearly as well as the Model S. It's time to update that aging design. And while they're at it, they really should do a major upgrade to the interiors - all of which look really cheap to my eyes.
@@askvic611 That doesn't count. I could have designed that with a straight edge, and if I had tried to pass that off as design in junior high, I'm sure I'd have gotten an F.
I love my 2020 Model X. I think the design is timeless. It’s very distinct and slick. When I see my wife drive it across the road, I’m always like nice car. I think people are just used to seeing car manufacturers change body style every couple of years to distinguish models and sell new cars. That is simply part of the legacy automakers’ trick. Tesla won’t change body style just to do it. They will do it for performance and aesthetics reasons. In terms of the interior, it could always look more expensive. I would like diamonds and platinum plastered all over mine. The white seat interior looks the most luxurious to me. I didn’t get it because of young seats. I don’t want to be cleaning seats every day.
This is the car for the buyer of a A8, Bmw 7, S class etc. It's competition will come from the future Jaguar XJ-E perhaps. The Tesla is nice and very capable but is hardly a luxury car. It is a very fast family vehicle. The Taycan is a very fast sports car. The Lucid is a very fast luxury sedan. They each have their market.
Brian Anthony why would you say the model x or s are not luxury cars, are you high? And the model 3 and y are high end mid luxury. Look at the features, performance what ever metric you want.
@@bdgrandin Go sit in a Mercedes S-Class then sit in a Tesla. I love Tesla's, but luxurious they are not. They don't even have ventilated or cooled seats, much less massaging or other features like heated/cooled cupholders, air freshener, and a HUD.
I wanted one of these from the beginning. However, the company has yet to tell me when I can expect to take delivery and how much I should plan on spending. It's hard to part with a substantial deposit when neither of these data points are provided...
...my Tesla Model 3 Performance is the best car I’ve ever owned...it’s unbelievably fast not that I race it , but it will blow the doors off any muscle car that you can hear from a mile away...the styling , imo, is great...and am very happy with fit and finish...I had a minor problem, and a service technician came to my home and fixed it...no more need for ‘stealerships’...I charge it about once or twice a week, and it’s range is absolutely fine with my needs...this need for a 400 mile range is something that is over hyped, as no one would ever run their distance down close to zero...the country wide Tesla charging network allows me even to consider a long trip...and it was affordable for my budget...with that said Lucid on paper can be a great car company...but how long will you start hearing instead of 2 years behind schedule, they will be 5 years delayed?...but they are no less than a decade behind Tesla in establishing a viable company that has the technology, the network, the factories, the scale, the international reach, the selection of vehicles extra businesses ( power wall, battery storage ) , and importantly the cache that Tesla already has developed...and while everyone is waiting for Lucid to start, Tesla will continue to improve in every fashion...so at the very best, imo, Lucid will be like a Lamborghini in a world of C8 Corvettes...a Company that caters to a very small demographic...while Tesla, VW (Audi), Volvo will produce the bulk of the world’s electric cars...on another note, you can bet there will be a stock play on this Company in the near future with profits generated every time there is a new management team put in place...I think that you just can’t compare a Model S engineer to a Visionary...
If you're asking about autonomous driving software, Lucid is using Mobileye's system, which runs parallel analysis with one set of inputs exclusively from a camera array and another set of inputs from radar and lidar sensors.
And what price? Compared to Tesla models, do I pay $5000 less, look cool and be cool about no supercharging network? Or pay more without handy supercharging? Being a better car than Tesla may not be enough to survive.
In late 2018 Lucid announced that it had reached agreement with Electrify America to use its charging network. What is not yet disclosed is whether Lucid is going to underwrite the cost in any way of using the EA network, which is usually pricier than Telsla's While Tesla still has more charging stations in the U.S. than Electrify America, EA is catching up quickly . . . and currently has 350 kW chargers at many stations.
@@blakespringpasturemortimer9168 that's maybe not good news. Electrify America is the result of the settlement against VW for their massive environmental fraud in the deiselgate scandal. As such it is compulsory, and we can expect VW to find ways to dirupt it's own efforts with regard to this network, much like GM's EV1. Whenever possible, actors that don't like the transition to electric will undermine their own apparent efforts in that direction, especially when these efforts are compulsory. For example, if VW finds a way to greatly increase charging cost at EA stations, this would go a long way toward supporting the narrative that EVs are uneconomical. EA has a certain degree of corporate autonomy, but there is no getting around the fact that they are a VW subsidiary. Yes, I know, VW is developing their own line of EV "Tesla killers", but they are far from enthusiastic. At best they will try to sell enough for ZEV credits. At some point as the market transition gains momentum, VW will have to actually compete for market share. But in the mean time, the last thing VW want is to accelerate the transition to EVs.
It's >900 volts. < means ”less than”. One way to remember which is which is that the symbol is widest at the bigger number: 11, two is greater than one
For a startup, quality of the lower quantity is most important, and learning all the lessons that will be applied to the larger volume models to follow. You need to establish, and that is done well through two channels... LUXURY LIMITED MARKET and COMMERCIAL FLEET SALES
no matter if it is lower, tesla still has nothing to worry, nobody can compete, big car companies will have to fuse with battery, software, hardware, and lots of more other to make a competitive car. With the Cybertruck out and the Roadster 2nd gen, they will be more far away
@@daniel1RM, the initial Air uses two 600 hp motors and will be followed by a 1800 hp three motor version so it will undermine the Roadster too. There is also a $65,000 600 hp version in the works too to undercut the bottom of the Model S line. But this will be more targeted at the Mercedes S Class, the Germans are the ones that should be afraid.
I’ve heard talk about how this car has greater range than a Tesla, but haven’t heard how big the battery is. Easy to get this kind of range if you make the battery pack bigger, so I’m wondering if that’s what Lucid is doing.
You can pre-order one now. Refundable $1000 down payment. It was already supposed to be revealed at the NY Auto show but because of Covid that got cancelled. It's going to be officially revealed on September 3rd I believe. Customer orders begin shipping early 2021. They already have a huge factory in Arizona. This will be the first real Tesla competition in the U.S.
I hope you’re choosing your electric car not thinking you’re saving the planet. An electric car is 60% efficient from battery to wheels while a gasoline car is only 20% efficient from tank to wheels. However, because the electric generation process is roughly 1/3 efficient (3 units of fuel to produce 1 unit of electricity), 1/3 of 60% = 20%. Its a wash if your fuel source is carbon based e.g. gas, coal, oil, which is still 80% of electric generation base fuel in the USA. Places where that % is lower have significant amounts of nuclear power, something the same people who hate carbon emissions have been afraid of for decades. So, don’t buy one because you think it will hold down the sea level - it won’t.
@@kanedafx1 That's also a very interesting question that can also fool people. As an exception to my statements above, one could suggest, as I assume you are doing, that if someone had solar panels on their home where they charge their car, then their house and transporation would be fully green. Right? Not really and I'll tell you why if you care to read it through. First, you charge your car usually at night when the "sun don't shine" as they say. But even if you had a very good set of panels (which I am very much in favor of by the way as I see solar panels as all gravy), such that they could produce more than enough to power your home during the day that they could also charge batteries in your home with the overage that could handle your electric needs overnight, then you could charge your car's battery overnight from them, right? Yes, but you would still have no net carbon reduction effect at all (which is what we're supposed to be achieving, right?). The reason is that any excess electricity your solar panels produce, either directly or from your home storage batteries, is sold back to the utility that you're hooked up to by law and they have to buy that power back from you. The utility then uses the power you sold it to sell to someone else who does not have solar panels. GREAT! That means the utility can then throttle down its carbon fuel burning power plants in proportion to the amount of extra power your solar panels produce which reduces the amount of carbon emissions. That sounds great until you realize that if you now add electric car charging to the consumption of the solar energy your solar panels produce, then you now have that much LESS solar generated electricity to sell to the utility as your reserve will be reduced by the electric car power use. Thus, everythng else being equal, when what you sell the utility now is reduced because of your new electric car, then the utility has that much less to sell to third parties, meaning it now has to THROTTLE BACK UP its fossil burning power plant to meet the needs of those non solar customers. Therefore, the net effect of you buying and charging an electric car at home by your home solar panels is to cause your utility to burn more fossil fuel in its power plants to replace the extra electricity you would have provided but have now chosen to use yourself for your electric car. While your new electric car would now limit your DIRECT carbon emissions, it will at the same time have increased the INDIRECT solar emissions for the planet by causing someone else's footprint to go up by a like amount. Once again, its a wash. This misleading scenario presents itself again when utilities, wanting to win public approval by bragging how much green power they are producing, announce that they are adding 2,000 megawatts of wind power to their system. GREAT again and everyone loves them for it, only to find out that they didn't actually build or install any new wind power, but went out and bought wind power from an existing wind farm in Oklahoma or Kansas somewhere and added it to their network to reduce the percentage of their fossil burning power plants. What they actually did was outbid other utilities for the power already coming from that existing wind farm so that they can now claim how much of their system is not fossil and make their customers think they can use virtually unlimited amounts of electricity, including adding electric cars, and won't be raising the sea levels. EXCEPT, that the other utilities who had previously purchased that same fixed amount of wind power now have to crank up their coal, lignite or gas power plants to replace that electricity production they were selling when they bought that same wind power. Do you now see that, unless they build new green sources of power generation, they are just like a dog chasing their tail, but which looks to the public like they're really going somewhere. The oil companies, electric utilities, auto makers all are on board with perpetuating this fiction for public relations purposes and also they are willing to sell whatever the public demands, no matter how illogical it is. Oh, by the way, the same oil companies that won't be selling you that one unit of gasoline because you bought an electric car will be now be selling the three additional units of fossil fuels to your local utility to generate the electrictiy to charge your car's battery. They get paid either way. So, they're not about to correct anyone's misunderstandiing of what I'm talking about. In short, unless and until the country has about 70% of its electricity generated by non fossil fuel sources, any added electric using devices, including automobiles, are necessarily using the 30% plus that's still fossil off the top. Last I looked, only about 20% of our electricity is generated from green sources. Only 1/2 of one percent (0.5%) of electricity is generated from solar power plants (not panels on buildings) and the estimates are that with the current aggressive rate of building new solar power plants of solar farms, that percentage will only be up to 11% by the year 2050. That's a whole extra generation of power plants that need to be built to carry us over to 2050 and we'll only be at 11% by then! Wind farms also have a limited amount of increase for the forseeable future as there are simply a limited number of practical places in the country for large scale wind energy production. In short, in the decades ahead while we move for green energy, we'll continue to need a large amount of fossil fuel burning power plants, and until we get to that 70% or higher level, electric cars will mostly be a wash. But they'll make a lot of money for Tesla and others electric car makers and make a lot of people think they are saving polar bears by driving them when they're not. To all my friends anxious to buy electric cars, remember whart Mark Twain said: "It's not what you don't know that scares me, it's what you think you know that just ain't so."
You're ignoring current and future renewable energy storage (Megapack) which completely undermines your argument which is wrong anyway, even if your premise was valid.
Everything sounds great ; the car looks good I will have to see the finish product. I hope the car is not too far out of my price range with that said, I am really looking forward in testing this car and to the first person in my neighborhood to have one.
I for one am excited to hear about Lucid and their new entry into the EV marketplace. I really like the design and the interior of the Air as well. Tesla really needs some competition which will help lead the way to replace current gas guzzlers polluting our air. But like Musk says actually manufacturing an auto is so much more difficult than designing one. I really hope they make it. It is much more exciting than all the established ICE manufacturers.
To me, one of the biggest things that Tesla has going for it that not even loose it has is the network they established not only for charging but the drive-by-wire type system that will someday hopefully enable car-to-car communication to better prevent accidents, etc... its the mesh network and tesla charging network backbone. ...maybe also why they went with lower voltage. Tesla are also by far THE SAFEST vehicles on the road so how will these guys stack up to that? .. im interested in finding out
Proud owner of an AWD Model 3. Tesla all the way. Already so far ahead of the game. Amazing vehicle. Driving has never been such an awesome experience.
Great video. But I have to laugh when you refer to the company that’s about to produce the Cyber Truck as conservative and playing it safe. The company that stripped the interior to just an iPad on the dash dispensing with everything else as conservative and playing it safe. Not an accurate assessment of Tesla. That said, I’d love for a good and proper competitor to Tesla. We the consumer win! As much as I want to buy a Tesla, there are things I don’t like about their cars that a competitor might offer or might force Tesla to rethink. As to which I’d buy, the Lucid looks better inside and out. But their software and charging network would have to be on par with Tesla for me to seriously consider them.
They have a car. A production car was shown to reservation holders in February at an event in Fremont, CA, where it was photographed by Car & Driver. The same car was to be premiered at the New York Auto Show in April, which was canceled due to Covid-19. The car will now be previewed on September 9 online. The new factory in Casa Grande, AZ is built and is already being outfitted with paint and assembly equipment. A warehouse is filling up with components from suppliers. 80 beta tests cars are on the roads for final hardware calibrations and software revisions.
After nearly 5 years with my Tesla S85d I have to dispute the “mistakes (plural)” reference. I would like A pillars just a bit slimmer but that is about all. Tesla has raised the bar and there is such a thing as brand loyalty. Without Tesla there would be nothing for the wannabes to jump on. I value the Tesla grit and determination when it was really tough going and rely on their R&D philosophy to keep progressing. Track record is totally brave and I value that highly. Past business performance gives me confidence and is a major factor when I am considering latest design capabilities. Past, present and future intentions are all important.
Maintenance is also an issue. While Tesla had and still has it´s ups and downs they are building a quite good reputation and already has the infrastructure to attend to it´s costumers. That said, if I were a millionaire I would definitely buy the Lucid Air, but it´s seems more likely I´ll be getting an used VW ID-3 in ten years....
I looked at the big Tesla and the interior was terrible, no room (I'm 6'5" and 270), so I went to my local Mercedes dealer sat in the S Class and fell in love to the point that we special ordered the vehicle and then flew to Germany for the "European Delivery" program, probably one of Mercedes best kept secrets. Just today (09/03/2020) is the first time I heard of the Lucid Air. Perhaps they will get a production car to market, but if this takes a while I'll be headed back to Germany to pickup another S Class.
I'm a hard core motorhead and like my muscle cars. So looks are very important to me and I gotta say that Lucid Air has it all over Tesla. Will they continue to keep the stylish looks on the cheaper models, I hope so. That to me is one of the drawbacks, some people don't mind what the car looks like it's just to get them around. I have a problem with that driving around in a geek car just don't cut it and this is the first electric car I have to say is spot on as far as looks. Will it hold up for some trouble free years? The charging thing is the other question in my mind, what good are all these electric cars with no charging stations. And the other question in my mind is when you are charging up on the side of the road or where ever seems to me your car is very vulnerable to people screwing with your charging cable or purposely shorting it out after all when charging who wants to baby-sit their car. Still very apprehensive about all electric cars with all the bugs that has to be overcome. But this Lucid is one sharp looking car that's for sure.
Finally something interesting in the EV market. My Leaf with it's 150HP engine, is already more than enough. There should be a legal limit on HP and speed, because it is not very green to have that.
The biggest hurdle for EV vehicles is the infrastructure needed to recharge or switch out batteries. Once this starts happening nationwide this will put EV's as the king over internal combustion.
Lucid Air has received an official EPA range rating which will be announced August 11. A teaser video Lucid posted yesterday suggests the range is at least 442 miles. People will be quick to compare this to the Tesla Model S rating of 402 miles. Remember, however, that the 402 miles is for the "Long Range" Model S. The "Performance" Model S still has an EPA range of 348 miles . . . and the Lucid Air has the performance specs of the Performance Model S, not the Long Range Model S. Lucid attained its range with a 110-kWh battery pack, while Tesla still uses a 100-kWh pack. So the relevant comparison is not the actual range, but the efficiency metric of miles/kWh. The Lucid Air comes in at 4.0 miles/kWh. The Performance Model S comes in at 3.48. Thus the Lucid Air's drivetrain is about 15% more efficient than the equivalent Tesla's drivetrain.
4-1/2 yrs. Tesla shareholder and wishing LUCID best of luck. It's a fine car all the way around. High end though. Casa Grande not far from here. It will be a while before Lucid get rockin the factory there.
Like you said, they're too late !! Few experts in the EV industry said, that the gap between Tesla and everyone else is growing even bigger and faster. One of the reasons would be that not only Elon Musk is a very intelligent man, but most importantly he out work everyone else by working 80-100 hours a week, and I'm pretty sure he is very productive man.
I would have one of each, if I could afford it. But, as they are both out of my reach, I’ve decided to stick with my Leaf and still go electric. I wish both Tesla and Lucid the very best for the future.
The biggest problems with all EVs for millions of people is the price. It is not much use having a car full of tech with a thousand-mile range if you can't afford one 😞 I shall be sticking to my trusty 22-year-old Merc for a while yet 😁
And their building their factory and cars right down the road from me, here in Arizona. I think the Air is a stunning car and will appeal to the rich and super rich and hope Lucid goes straight to a small hatchback, after the Air, to fill that niche. I'm sure Lucid will be very successful and will help put Chrysler, and a few other old car mfc's, out of business.
@@MrArtist7777 All they've said publicly is that the SUV will be the next vehicle they build. They had planned to release early details about it around the middle of this year, but with the Covid-19 delays that backed up the Air program, I doubt if we'll hear any more until after the Air launches and they see how sales go.
Cool car and even better looking than a Model S through my eyes but obviously too expensive to be relevant to most people including me. The big question is whether they have enough funding to be able to catch up with Tesla at this point in time because that is going to be expensive. Tesla has a strong lead in many areas but I don't believe they are immune to competition. Personally I'm already considering soon to be launched competitor models like Volvo XC40 Recharge and Opel Mokka-e as cheaper alternatives to a Model Y for example.
Lucid has the funding ($1.3B from the Saudi public investment fund) to bring the Air to market with cutting-edge technology. However, bringing out products beyond that and to keep the technology moving forward will be more dependent on revenues generated from the sale of the Air.
This seems a very commonly held opinion, and understandably so. To truly compete with Tesla, their rivals are gonna have to match their charging network (and make a really cool car of course!)
I love the Lucid interior. It looks luxurious. There’s a lot of unanswered questions, but I think competition is a great thing for all parties involved. Make EV SEXY! No more ugly Nissan Leafs!
I'm a big Tesla fanboy, no doubt, but it would be nice if Lucid could produce a legit competitor (unlike Nikola seems to be). Seems like they're on their way! Good luck! All in on EV!
80 beta test cars are on the road being tested around the country. Production machinery is already being installed in the new Casa Grande, AZ factory. Components from suppliers are already being stockpiled in a warehouse outside of Casa Grande. A full-on production car has already been built and was previewed to reservation holders in February. It was to be premiered to the wider public at the April New York Auto Show before Covid-19 caused that to be canceled. It will now be premiered in an online event on September 9. What exactly is your definition of "no where near reality"?
I wouldn't buy a Model S or the Lucid when it arrives. Both too big. However, I still need 400 miles range and my budget is more Renault Zoe than Model 3 (even).
The Lucid Air is 195.4" so it's not a small car. To get that kind of range you'll need about 70 kWh and an super high efficiency of 6 mile/kWh (which though possible might take a quite a while to reach market.) However, that's still not going to be cheaper than a Model 3.
I'll believe it when I see them produced in quantity because that car at $100K will result in massive losses. Just look at the Porsche Taycan, from an established & very experienced car company & it has to sell for $200K to be viable.
OK, but concentrate of their miniaturization effort. Their powertrain motor included is 65kg. They don't need the high powered cooling system a Tesla uses to struggle to keep their batteries cool enough to function when used aggressively. That has got to save them big bucks from the start.
.y solar energy instructor had an EV that he claimed, hot 300 miles to a charge. He said it had military surplus batteries, that were the equivalent to rechargeable alkaline batteries. This was in 1977. The guy is still alive, but being quiet, after all the death threats.
If Lucid would simultaneously work on a fix for a gaping market need..... an all-electric refit of the Mercedes Sprinters 2007-2020... 1. Take out the V6 engine-drivetrain-axles... and all the horoible sensors that crap out, the emissions system, all the running gear 2. Replace with a kitted up system..... and over following years, design a complete high-roof service van, or work with or without a partnership with Mercedes Idea is sort of a pass-through system like Quiggly does for 4WD systems. UPDATE TO MY COMMENT.... Mercedes is floating the concept van "ESprinter".... but the current design range is marginally usable at "UP TO" 150 Miles.... I will put that at 90 miles when considering use of Heat/AC, ancillary 115V power on service calls... 1800lbs of equipment and inventory.... 350 lbs of shelving and up-fitting in the back.
I do wonder how long motoring will be available to the masses. Stricter emissions rules are ending city cars and other new cars becoming more expensive and complex through infotainment systems and electrification. Where will the sub-£5k used car market be in 10 years time? As for Lucid, Porsche, Audi et al, really expensive electric cars are great but affordable they are not. 400 mile range is just silly. I'd love to know who is doing London to Edinburgh non stop.
I live in south Florida, and it's 389 miles from my house just to the border of Georgia (the neighboring state). I also live in a fairly rural area and have a 40-mile round trip to doctors, many restaurants, and most friends' houses. My 2015 Tesla Model S has 257 miles of putative range (meaning highway range is significantly less.) I can't even get to Miami and back without recharging. Most EV's, including Lucid, have or are planning shorter-range, cheaper versions of their cars for people who don't need the higher battery capacity. My brother has a Model 3 and lives in a condo in Atlanta. There are only two charging plugs for his large complex, and he cannot always find a free plug. So he needs as much range as possible just for daily local use due to not always being able to plug in when he arrives home. What you call "just silly" might seem so in your circumstances . . . but you're not everyone.
“Betrayed by his own son.” Nice nugget. For every Tesla, there are 100 Lucids. We forget: what makes the Tesla real is that you can actually go out there right. now and buy one. In fact get one that’s 15 years old and not only works but still looks cool: And can still update. It is a real car. You can’t kill what you can’t catch. Rowlinson is finding out he may have underrated Elon Musk as a factor in the Tesla success..
Call me when Lucid improves on Tesla’s 360 security cameras to alert and live stream to mobile devices when parked vehicles are being tampered with. I already prefer the look of Lucid.. but I’ll definitely be sold if that safety feature is incorporated!
Air is a great name for it. Lucid a tech sharing company. X pang is a tech sharing company. Tesla is a tech sharing company. The future is now "Electric" we cant compare any of these cars with ICE car of today. Driving any of them is better in every way. The big names of ICE age cars are shamed by these now available equivalent forms of transport. Cleaner, safer, faster, very low running, almost maintenance free, very long service life, Why would you buy anything else? The future is now.
Obviously the chops to build a great car. The tough part is manufacturing, lowering cost and bring it to market. Best of luck to Lucid in making that happen.
The only down side is Muslim Oil money owns it. Most of it anyway. It will be built south of Phoenix. Too bad it isn't locally owned.
@joebob Saudi Arabia invested over a billion in Lucid.
BTW they also own most pet food, frozen pizza and makeup companies and bottled water companies in the USA.
@joebob The same people trying to overthrow our government. I would prefer they didn't
@@guidedmeditation2396 take the tin foil hat off and get out if the basement...
@@GSP-76 What is it that you disagree with?
First be able to mass-produce Batteries, second produce cars on a scale, third come to market, and show how good you are. Then we can have an opinion. I just see great specs like always.
100% - just making a great concept car does not make u a success in the business world. I would say it's just 20% of what it takes to succeed
This was the cautiously optimistic attitude that was held to Tesla..... a lot of fans, but a lot of negative views of the firm as "viable"
fourth have a path to profitability
They'll all go bankrupt sooner or later
a step ahead of Nikola at least
I hope Lucid gets going again after the pandemic (unlikely I know), because it would be nice for Tesla to have a real competitor that's similar to them but have touched Motorsport, not just the old car manufacturers with batteries.
I hope so too, and I don't think it's unlikely! There's a good chance the pandemic will result in production getting pushed back once again and starting early 2021, but I have a suspicion it'll be worth the wait
We have been watching and waiting for this car to come out we would love one ourselves. We live in New Zealand and hope to see them coming in to our country as soon as they can send them. The Lucid is brilliant and beautiful.
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@@Electroheads Carbon police for emitting bs
@@citylockapolytechnikeyllcc7936 good one champ
@@Electroheads I am a gross emitter myself, daily!
I work with Lucid, and we are rolling out our Beta prototypes for testing all the while building our factory in Arizona. Watch the 9/9/2020 reveal!!
For 100,000 dollars most of us can’t afford it, so therefore the delays don’t bother me.... lol
Funny how everyone wants to save the world by going electric but making them so unaffordable to the average hoe, that they will never do it.
kedean Duffus ...Lucid will probably be closer to $150,000 with options ...eventually investors. will want a return on investment...and then we will see an ipo...stay away as it’s all manipulated...
Just wait, it will be followed by a one motor $65,000 version.
ACTUALLY $62,000
Starting price is $60k. A fully loaded one will be $105k.
when they make a 100 hp car for me to go 100 miles a day, and sell it for $15k, I'm IN !!!!
That's where even Tesla is missing the boat. Something like a retro, electrified VW beetle. I'd be onboard for that.
There are only two ICE cars on the market at or under $15K: the Mitsubishi Mirage (78 hp) and the Chevrolet Spark (98 hp) .
You may have to wait a while.
@@blakespringpasturemortimer9168 :
ford fiesta $14,260,
Nissan Versa $14,730,
Hyundi Accent $14,995.
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Kia Rio $15,750
Toyota Yaris $15,650
more than a few cars in the price range.
smart car is still being sold and the new smart electric is coming out.
Check out the FUV archimoto and the Solo car! I bought stock of each!
@@kenjsr1 Tesla will likely do almost EXACTLY that by importing Chinese Built 20K Teslas..... or bringing them in as a kit, completing here, and calling it "Made in USA with Global Components"
I can’t afford either one so what’s the point in answering.
Fully agree with Jon ...we are tired of all these electric cars that are out of reach of 99.9999 % of people. .
There are some new small cars that are cheap and not bad
Look for the two seat cars and the Quadricycle cars
But definitely not a 400 miles range car
@@00301200 there is almost 15 million millionaires in USA
@People Hater you are not yet...
If prices were the same I would take the Lucid Air! The space inside looks so comfortable.
I like it alot it will cost more then a tesla I think top model will be 100 thousand dollars
Laying back like that in a fast moving vehicle is not the most comfortable thing.
@@allensaunders449 Tesla top models cost $100k too. Lucid Air will start at $60k
@@joscaca it will be in a car with a air suspension.
@@GSP-76 what tesla costs 100 thousand none. This lucid air sir will be 100 thousand. Little different market. Room for both companies to flourish. The tesla roadster will be 200 thousand but 3 years away. More important projects for tesla moneg making wise
Yes I would get this in a heartbeat
According to their CEO and CFO, Lucid Motors is in a financial sound position all the way up to the initial start of production of their Air, all they need is the pandemic to come down to get their car to market, I’m excited for them!
Dude I died laughing when you mentioned the toaster and the flame thrower!😂 Great video man
The Lucid Air is a beautiful car, so in 2020 it wins the beauty contest against the 8 year old Tesla. But I remember how impressed I was when it was introduced in 2012. One of my gripes against Tesla these days is that they've been relying on the same styling themes since then. In my opinion, the Model 3 and the Model X don't wear the design nearly as well as the Model S. It's time to update that aging design. And while they're at it, they really should do a major upgrade to the interiors - all of which look really cheap to my eyes.
What are you talking about, they changed their design-language already with the Cybertruck 😋
@@askvic611 That doesn't count. I could have designed that with a straight edge, and if I had tried to pass that off as design in junior high, I'm sure I'd have gotten an F.
I love my 2020 Model X. I think the design is timeless. It’s very distinct and slick. When I see my wife drive it across the road, I’m always like nice car.
I think people are just used to seeing car manufacturers change body style every couple of years to distinguish models and sell new cars. That is simply part of the legacy automakers’ trick.
Tesla won’t change body style just to do it. They will do it for performance and aesthetics reasons.
In terms of the interior, it could always look more expensive. I would like diamonds and platinum plastered all over mine.
The white seat interior looks the most luxurious to me. I didn’t get it because of young seats. I don’t want to be cleaning seats every day.
This is the car for the buyer of a A8, Bmw 7, S class etc. It's competition will come from the future Jaguar XJ-E perhaps. The Tesla is nice and very capable but is hardly a luxury car. It is a very fast family vehicle. The Taycan is a very fast sports car. The Lucid is a very fast luxury sedan. They each have their market.
Brian Anthony why would you say the model x or s are not luxury cars, are you high? And the model 3 and y are high end mid luxury. Look at the features, performance what ever metric you want.
market for Lucid? Taycan maybe...how many Taycans have Porsche sold? Lucid? Rivian? Nikola?
@@bdgrandin Go sit in a Mercedes S-Class then sit in a Tesla. I love Tesla's, but luxurious they are not. They don't even have ventilated or cooled seats, much less massaging or other features like heated/cooled cupholders, air freshener, and a HUD.
@@yootoober2009
Close to zero lol
Did you drive any of those cars ?
Is nearly 5 our 6 years now since I hear about this company as being Tesla killer but no car on the roads yet
It's 2017. Same year as fake Tesla's Roadster.
Got a model s and love it but really liking the design of the lucid
I am happy to see more and more EVs!
I wanted one of these from the beginning. However, the company has yet to tell me when I can expect to take delivery and how much I should plan on spending. It's hard to part with a substantial deposit when neither of these data points are provided...
...my Tesla Model 3 Performance is the best car I’ve ever owned...it’s unbelievably fast not that I race it , but it will blow the doors off any muscle car that you can hear from a mile away...the styling , imo, is great...and am very happy with fit and finish...I had a minor problem, and a service technician came to my home and fixed it...no more need for ‘stealerships’...I charge it about once or twice a week, and it’s range is absolutely fine with my needs...this need for a 400 mile range is something that is over hyped, as no one would ever run their distance down close to zero...the country wide Tesla charging network allows me even to consider a long trip...and it was affordable for my budget...with that said Lucid on paper can be a great car company...but how long will you start hearing instead of 2 years behind schedule, they will be 5 years delayed?...but they are no less than a decade behind Tesla in establishing a viable company that has the technology, the network, the factories, the scale, the international reach, the selection of vehicles extra businesses ( power wall, battery storage ) , and importantly the cache that Tesla already has developed...and while everyone is waiting for Lucid to start, Tesla will continue to improve in every fashion...so at the very best, imo, Lucid will be like a Lamborghini in a world of C8 Corvettes...a Company that caters to a very small demographic...while Tesla, VW (Audi), Volvo will produce the bulk of the world’s electric cars...on another note, you can bet there will be a stock play on this Company in the near future with profits generated every time there is a new management team put in place...I think that you just can’t compare a Model S engineer to a Visionary...
Fantastic content. Lucid Air will be the trademark for modern luxury.
Thats all fine but im interested in software side of a car. Where they stand at it?
Good point Goran. One cryptic reference to lidar (which is not encouraging). Other than that, crickets.
If you're asking about autonomous driving software, Lucid is using Mobileye's system, which runs parallel analysis with one set of inputs exclusively from a camera array and another set of inputs from radar and lidar sensors.
It has AM and FM radio.
Maybe a great car, but the next question is what is their plan for a charging infrastructure?
And what price? Compared to Tesla models, do I pay $5000 less, look cool and be cool about no supercharging network? Or pay more without handy supercharging? Being a better car than Tesla may not be enough to survive.
Probably just use any of the dozen or so current and upcoming charging systems, including Tesla's.
In late 2018 Lucid announced that it had reached agreement with Electrify America to use its charging network. What is not yet disclosed is whether Lucid is going to underwrite the cost in any way of using the EA network, which is usually pricier than Telsla's
While Tesla still has more charging stations in the U.S. than Electrify America, EA is catching up quickly . . . and currently has 350 kW chargers at many stations.
@@blakespringpasturemortimer9168 that's maybe not good news. Electrify America is the result of the settlement against VW for their massive environmental fraud in the deiselgate scandal. As such it is compulsory, and we can expect VW to find ways to dirupt it's own efforts with regard to this network, much like GM's EV1. Whenever possible, actors that don't like the transition to electric will undermine their own apparent efforts in that direction, especially when these efforts are compulsory.
For example, if VW finds a way to greatly increase charging cost at EA stations, this would go a long way toward supporting the narrative that EVs are uneconomical.
EA has a certain degree of corporate autonomy, but there is no getting around the fact that they are a VW subsidiary.
Yes, I know, VW is developing their own line of EV "Tesla killers", but they are far from enthusiastic. At best they will try to sell enough for ZEV credits. At some point as the market transition gains momentum, VW will have to actually compete for market share. But in the mean time, the last thing VW want is to accelerate the transition to EVs.
@@Seehart They are not there and the few chargers which are are screwing the customers at 3X what Tesla charges its customers.
It's >900 volts. < means ”less than”. One way to remember which is which is that the symbol is widest at the bigger number:
11, two is greater than one
At a hundred thousand per copy, sales will be slow, so Tesla has nothing to be concerned about.
For a startup, quality of the lower quantity is most important, and learning all the lessons that will be applied to the larger volume models to follow. You need to establish, and that is done well through two channels... LUXURY LIMITED MARKET and COMMERCIAL FLEET SALES
no matter if it is lower, tesla still has nothing to worry, nobody can compete, big car companies will have to fuse with battery, software, hardware, and lots of more other to make a competitive car. With the Cybertruck out and the Roadster 2nd gen, they will be more far away
@@daniel1RM, the initial Air uses two 600 hp motors and will be followed by a 1800 hp three motor version so it will undermine the Roadster too. There is also a $65,000 600 hp version in the works too to undercut the bottom of the Model S line. But this will be more targeted at the Mercedes S Class, the Germans are the ones that should be afraid.
I’ve heard talk about how this car has greater range than a Tesla, but haven’t heard how big the battery is. Easy to get this kind of range if you make the battery pack bigger, so I’m wondering if that’s what Lucid is doing.
Their website says it will be "revealed" (released? available to buy?) on 9/9/2020, just a few weeks.
You can pre-order one now. Refundable $1000 down payment. It was already supposed to be revealed at the NY Auto show but because of Covid that got cancelled. It's going to be officially revealed on September 3rd I believe. Customer orders begin shipping early 2021. They already have a huge factory in Arizona. This will be the first real Tesla competition in the U.S.
I have a models S raven 2019. And it’s amazing.. I’ll be glad to try a lucid
I hope you’re choosing your electric car not thinking you’re saving the planet. An electric car is 60% efficient from battery to wheels while a gasoline car is only 20% efficient from tank to wheels. However, because the electric generation process is roughly 1/3 efficient (3 units of fuel to produce 1 unit of electricity), 1/3 of 60% = 20%. Its a wash if your fuel source is carbon based e.g. gas, coal, oil, which is still 80% of electric generation base fuel in the USA. Places where that % is lower have significant amounts of nuclear power, something the same people who hate carbon emissions have been afraid of for decades. So, don’t buy one because you think it will hold down the sea level - it won’t.
@@markodom3841 What about solar panels to charge your car..........
@@kanedafx1 That's also a very interesting question that can also fool people. As an exception to my statements above, one could suggest, as I assume you are doing, that if someone had solar panels on their home where they charge their car, then their house and transporation would be fully green. Right? Not really and I'll tell you why if you care to read it through.
First, you charge your car usually at night when the "sun don't shine" as they say. But even if you had a very good set of panels (which I am very much in favor of by the way as I see solar panels as all gravy), such that they could produce more than enough to power your home during the day that they could also charge batteries in your home with the overage that could handle your electric needs overnight, then you could charge your car's battery overnight from them, right? Yes, but you would still have no net carbon reduction effect at all (which is what we're supposed to be achieving, right?).
The reason is that any excess electricity your solar panels produce, either directly or from your home storage batteries, is sold back to the utility that you're hooked up to by law and they have to buy that power back from you. The utility then uses the power you sold it to sell to someone else who does not have solar panels. GREAT! That means the utility can then throttle down its carbon fuel burning power plants in proportion to the amount of extra power your solar panels produce which reduces the amount of carbon emissions. That sounds great until you realize that if you now add electric car charging to the consumption of the solar energy your solar panels produce, then you now have that much LESS solar generated electricity to sell to the utility as your reserve will be reduced by the electric car power use. Thus, everythng else being equal, when what you sell the utility now is reduced because of your new electric car, then the utility has that much less to sell to third parties, meaning it now has to THROTTLE BACK UP its fossil burning power plant to meet the needs of those non solar customers. Therefore, the net effect of you buying and charging an electric car at home by your home solar panels is to cause your utility to burn more fossil fuel in its power plants to replace the extra electricity you would have provided but have now chosen to use yourself for your electric car. While your new electric car would now limit your DIRECT carbon emissions, it will at the same time have increased the INDIRECT solar emissions for the planet by causing someone else's footprint to go up by a like amount. Once again, its a wash.
This misleading scenario presents itself again when utilities, wanting to win public approval by bragging how much green power they are producing, announce that they are adding 2,000 megawatts of wind power to their system. GREAT again and everyone loves them for it, only to find out that they didn't actually build or install any new wind power, but went out and bought wind power from an existing wind farm in Oklahoma or Kansas somewhere and added it to their network to reduce the percentage of their fossil burning power plants. What they actually did was outbid other utilities for the power already coming from that existing wind farm so that they can now claim how much of their system is not fossil and make their customers think they can use virtually unlimited amounts of electricity, including adding electric cars, and won't be raising the sea levels. EXCEPT, that the other utilities who had previously purchased that same fixed amount of wind power now have to crank up their coal, lignite or gas power plants to replace that electricity production they were selling when they bought that same wind power. Do you now see that, unless they build new green sources of power generation, they are just like a dog chasing their tail, but which looks to the public like they're really going somewhere.
The oil companies, electric utilities, auto makers all are on board with perpetuating this fiction for public relations purposes and also they are willing to sell whatever the public demands, no matter how illogical it is. Oh, by the way, the same oil companies that won't be selling you that one unit of gasoline because you bought an electric car will be now be selling the three additional units of fossil fuels to your local utility to generate the electrictiy to charge your car's battery. They get paid either way. So, they're not about to correct anyone's misunderstandiing of what I'm talking about.
In short, unless and until the country has about 70% of its electricity generated by non fossil fuel sources, any added electric using devices, including automobiles, are necessarily using the 30% plus that's still fossil off the top. Last I looked, only about 20% of our electricity is generated from green sources. Only 1/2 of one percent (0.5%) of electricity is generated from solar power plants (not panels on buildings) and the estimates are that with the current aggressive rate of building new solar power plants of solar farms, that percentage will only be up to 11% by the year 2050. That's a whole extra generation of power plants that need to be built to carry us over to 2050 and we'll only be at 11% by then! Wind farms also have a limited amount of increase for the forseeable future as there are simply a limited number of practical places in the country for large scale wind energy production. In short, in the decades ahead while we move for green energy, we'll continue to need a large amount of fossil fuel burning power plants, and until we get to that 70% or higher level, electric cars will mostly be a wash. But they'll make a lot of money for Tesla and others electric car makers and make a lot of people think they are saving polar bears by driving them when they're not.
To all my friends anxious to buy electric cars, remember whart Mark Twain said: "It's not what you don't know that scares me, it's what you think you know that just ain't so."
Try the Porsche Taycan 4S as well. Everything I've read has been positive, even the much maligned range which exceeds EPA estimates by a lot.
You're ignoring current and future renewable energy storage (Megapack) which completely undermines your argument which is wrong anyway, even if your premise was valid.
I would actually buy this over tesla
Tesla seems dull and plain
I love this. More competition. So Lucid is poised to be the Mercedes Benz of EVs and Tesla is the new Toyota.
Tesla will go mass market and then crank it back up with the Roadster and other vehicles.
joscaca That Roadster is going to change the game!
When I finish my college and start job I will buy one lucid air
I wish you the best
Everything sounds great ; the car looks good I will have to see the finish product. I hope the car is not too far out of my price range with that said, I am really looking forward in testing this car and to the first person in my neighborhood to have one.
But it's not in production. The factory isn't even finished.
I love both of them..Lucid and Tesla 😍
If I could afford it, I would definately buy it
I for one am excited to hear about Lucid and their new entry into the EV marketplace. I really like the design and the interior of the Air as well. Tesla really needs some competition which will help lead the way to replace current gas guzzlers polluting our air. But like Musk says actually manufacturing an auto is so much more difficult than designing one. I really hope they make it. It is much more exciting than all the established ICE manufacturers.
To me, one of the biggest things that Tesla has going for it that not even loose it has is the network they established not only for charging but the drive-by-wire type system that will someday hopefully enable car-to-car communication to better prevent accidents, etc... its the mesh network and tesla charging network backbone. ...maybe also why they went with lower voltage. Tesla are also by far THE SAFEST vehicles on the road so how will these guys stack up to that? .. im interested in finding out
They are going to crash test some of their production prototypes so we'll soon see...
Proud owner of an AWD Model 3. Tesla all the way. Already so far ahead of the game. Amazing vehicle. Driving has never been such an awesome experience.
Great video. But I have to laugh when you refer to the company that’s about to produce the Cyber Truck as conservative and playing it safe. The company that stripped the interior to just an iPad on the dash dispensing with everything else as conservative and playing it safe. Not an accurate assessment of Tesla. That said, I’d love for a good and proper competitor to Tesla. We the consumer win! As much as I want to buy a Tesla, there are things I don’t like about their cars that a competitor might offer or might force Tesla to rethink. As to which I’d buy, the Lucid looks better inside and out. But their software and charging network would have to be on par with Tesla for me to seriously consider them.
Yeah, get back to me when they actually HAVE a car
They have a car. A production car was shown to reservation holders in February at an event in Fremont, CA, where it was photographed by Car & Driver. The same car was to be premiered at the New York Auto Show in April, which was canceled due to Covid-19. The car will now be previewed on September 9 online. The new factory in Casa Grande, AZ is built and is already being outfitted with paint and assembly equipment. A warehouse is filling up with components from suppliers. 80 beta tests cars are on the roads for final hardware calibrations and software revisions.
@@blakespringpasturemortimer9168 Yawn. Tesla revealed the Cybertruck back in November and I still don't have mine.
They're opening a show room store I believe in a mall in Santa Clara. So obviously they have something to show off.
After nearly 5 years with my Tesla S85d I have to dispute the “mistakes (plural)” reference. I would like A pillars just a bit slimmer but that is about all. Tesla has raised the bar and there is such a thing as brand loyalty. Without Tesla there would be nothing for the wannabes to jump on. I value the Tesla grit and determination when it was really tough going and rely on their R&D philosophy to keep progressing. Track record is totally brave and I value that highly. Past business performance gives me confidence and is a major factor when I am considering latest design capabilities. Past, present and future intentions are all important.
Maintenance is also an issue. While Tesla had and still has it´s ups and downs they are building a quite good reputation and already has the infrastructure to attend to it´s costumers. That said, if I were a millionaire I would definitely buy the Lucid Air, but it´s seems more likely I´ll be getting an used VW ID-3 in ten years....
Let's GO Lucid!
Lucid Lucid LUUUUCID, I want one yesterday🤑
ALREADY HAVE PUT A DEPOSIT DOWN!
Looking forward when Lucid is finally release for production . 😎
I looked at the big Tesla and the interior was terrible, no room (I'm 6'5" and 270), so I went to my local Mercedes dealer sat in the S Class and fell in love to the point that we special ordered the vehicle and then flew to Germany for the "European Delivery" program, probably one of Mercedes best kept secrets. Just today (09/03/2020) is the first time I heard of the Lucid Air. Perhaps they will get a production car to market, but if this takes a while I'll be headed back to Germany to pickup another S Class.
Too much talk talk talk, no action yet. SHOW ME THE MONEY'
At least Lucid actually has a product. Lookin at you, Nikola
@@quantum.starhop yeah xd, but theres cars shown driving but still not close
Electric cars are made way too expensive for the average man
You must be an oil man because that's so untrue. You can use your good Crédit and come up with 30 grand for a loan, then you CAN AFFORD IT.
Call mike Murphy Sr. at Brunswick Ga Kia. Talk to him only. He will lay out a plan that you can afford.
I'm a hard core motorhead and like my muscle cars. So looks are very important to me and I gotta say that Lucid Air has it all over Tesla. Will they continue to keep the stylish looks
on the cheaper models, I hope so. That to me is one of the drawbacks, some people don't mind what the car looks like it's just to get them around. I have a problem with that driving
around in a geek car just don't cut it and this is the first electric car I have to say is spot on as far as looks. Will it hold up for some trouble free years? The charging thing is the other
question in my mind, what good are all these electric cars with no charging stations. And the other question in my mind is when you are charging up on the side of the road or where ever
seems to me your car is very vulnerable to people screwing with your charging cable or purposely shorting it out after all when charging who wants to baby-sit their car. Still very
apprehensive about all electric cars with all the bugs that has to be overcome. But this Lucid is one sharp looking car that's for sure.
Finally something interesting in the EV market. My Leaf with it's 150HP engine, is already more than enough. There should be a legal limit on HP and speed, because it is not very green to have that.
400 mile range 2018 Good for them Hope they get launched and succeed this year!
Love your objective view point!
Lucid is very cool. I would love this car.
Sounds great I will be watching.
I reserved one in late 2017.
The biggest hurdle for EV vehicles is the infrastructure needed to recharge or switch out batteries. Once this starts happening nationwide this will put EV's as the king over internal combustion.
I wonder if one already exists, as without it EV's are nice ornaments and or boulevard cruisers
I would definitely love to own a Lucid Air....YES...
Lucid Air has received an official EPA range rating which will be announced August 11. A teaser video Lucid posted yesterday suggests the range is at least 442 miles. People will be quick to compare this to the Tesla Model S rating of 402 miles. Remember, however, that the 402 miles is for the "Long Range" Model S. The "Performance" Model S still has an EPA range of 348 miles . . . and the Lucid Air has the performance specs of the Performance Model S, not the Long Range Model S.
Lucid attained its range with a 110-kWh battery pack, while Tesla still uses a 100-kWh pack. So the relevant comparison is not the actual range, but the efficiency metric of miles/kWh. The Lucid Air comes in at 4.0 miles/kWh. The Performance Model S comes in at 3.48. Thus the Lucid Air's drivetrain is about 15% more efficient than the equivalent Tesla's drivetrain.
Did you forget to mention the self driving feature in the Licid dream car?
4-1/2 yrs. Tesla shareholder and wishing LUCID best of luck. It's a fine car all the way around. High end though. Casa Grande not far from here. It will be a while before Lucid get rockin the factory there.
Like you said, they're too late !! Few experts in the EV industry said, that the gap between Tesla and everyone else is growing even bigger and faster. One of the reasons would be that not only Elon Musk is a very intelligent man, but most importantly he out work everyone else by working 80-100 hours a week, and I'm pretty sure he is very productive man.
I would have one of each, if I could afford it. But, as they are both out of my reach, I’ve decided to stick with my Leaf and still go electric. I wish both Tesla and Lucid the very best for the future.
Great video, thx
The biggest problems with all EVs for millions of people is the price. It is not much use having a car full of tech with a thousand-mile range if you can't afford one 😞
I shall be sticking to my trusty 22-year-old Merc for a while yet 😁
And their building their factory and cars right down the road from me, here in Arizona. I think the Air is a stunning car and will appeal to the rich and super rich and hope Lucid goes straight to a small hatchback, after the Air, to fill that niche. I'm sure Lucid will be very successful and will help put Chrysler, and a few other old car mfc's, out of business.
The next model in Lucid's product plan is an SUV built on the Air platform. Smaller cars are to come after that.
@@blakespringpasturemortimer9168 Gotcha, thx. Do you know if they've announced anything about this yet?
@@MrArtist7777 All they've said publicly is that the SUV will be the next vehicle they build. They had planned to release early details about it around the middle of this year, but with the Covid-19 delays that backed up the Air program, I doubt if we'll hear any more until after the Air launches and they see how sales go.
I like Rawlinson and I like LUCID. Tesla is GREAT too. My money is on the LUCID....
Cool car and even better looking than a Model S through my eyes but obviously too expensive to be relevant to most people including me. The big question is whether they have enough funding to be able to catch up with Tesla at this point in time because that is going to be expensive. Tesla has a strong lead in many areas but I don't believe they are immune to competition. Personally I'm already considering soon to be launched competitor models like Volvo XC40 Recharge and Opel Mokka-e as cheaper alternatives to a Model Y for example.
Lucid has the funding ($1.3B from the Saudi public investment fund) to bring the Air to market with cutting-edge technology. However, bringing out products beyond that and to keep the technology moving forward will be more dependent on revenues generated from the sale of the Air.
I would rather have a Lucid ONLY if the charging network were as extensive and as quick as Tesla's. So for now I am still Team Tesla.
This seems a very commonly held opinion, and understandably so. To truly compete with Tesla, their rivals are gonna have to match their charging network (and make a really cool car of course!)
Isn't Electrify America already quicker than Tesla because it has to charge the high speed low drag 800v Taycan?
@@abraxastulammo9940 Only a fraction of the locations and also the number of stalls is far less, that high rate is only with the 800Volt
Loved the content. Will share it to friends👍
I am interested to buy stock in lucid motor but why any apps to buy otc market stock
I love the Lucid interior. It looks luxurious. There’s a lot of unanswered questions, but I think competition is a great thing for all parties involved. Make EV SEXY! No more ugly Nissan Leafs!
You used the less than symbol instead of the greater than symbol for the >900 volts bit
Would buy one over anything there is on the market today
Great vid, to the point informative , and not to long . Thanks
Could you do a segment on NIO?
More competition more value for public! I hope in next 2 years every car brand makes model s
I'm a big Tesla fanboy, no doubt, but it would be nice if Lucid could produce a legit competitor (unlike Nikola seems to be). Seems like they're on their way! Good luck! All in on EV!
Lucid look very nice indeed, but Polestar are the ones I'm keen to know more about.
I'm choosing model s just to be safe because tesla will never go out of business.
It's just a lucid dream, no where near reality
80 beta test cars are on the road being tested around the country. Production machinery is already being installed in the new Casa Grande, AZ factory. Components from suppliers are already being stockpiled in a warehouse outside of Casa Grande. A full-on production car has already been built and was previewed to reservation holders in February. It was to be premiered to the wider public at the April New York Auto Show before Covid-19 caused that to be canceled. It will now be premiered in an online event on September 9.
What exactly is your definition of "no where near reality"?
@@blakespringpasturemortimer9168 And that online event will be disrupted by Teslas battery day .. on Sept 15th :)
Your are right if you make that 40 production prototypes and not 80 betas. They are also installing the factory equipotent now.
I would want to know a little bit more about the charging capabilities. Charging network. I am driving a Tesla Model 3 today.
Lucid has an agreement with Electrify America and will be able to use their fast charging stations.
0:30 This guy is actually real?? That wasn't just an actor??
Hope this comes to life for real!
I prefer lucid air over all Tesla products
I wouldn't buy a Model S or the Lucid when it arrives. Both too big. However, I still need 400 miles range and my budget is more Renault Zoe than Model 3 (even).
The Lucid Air is 195.4" so it's not a small car. To get that kind of range you'll need about 70 kWh and an super high efficiency of 6 mile/kWh (which though possible might take a quite a while to reach market.) However, that's still not going to be cheaper than a Model 3.
I'll believe it when I see them produced in quantity because that car at $100K will result in massive losses. Just look at the Porsche Taycan, from an established & very experienced car company & it has to sell for $200K to be viable.
OK, but concentrate of their miniaturization effort. Their powertrain motor included is 65kg. They don't need the high powered cooling system a Tesla uses to struggle to keep their batteries cool enough to function when used aggressively. That has got to save them big bucks from the start.
Maybe, it does look better than the model S. But there is the super charger network and fed to consider.
.y solar energy instructor had an EV that he claimed, hot 300 miles to a charge. He said it had military surplus batteries, that were the equivalent to rechargeable alkaline batteries. This was in 1977. The guy is still alive, but being quiet, after all the death threats.
If Lucid would simultaneously work on a fix for a gaping market need..... an all-electric refit of the Mercedes Sprinters 2007-2020...
1. Take out the V6 engine-drivetrain-axles... and all the horoible sensors that crap out, the emissions system, all the running gear
2. Replace with a kitted up system..... and over following years, design a complete high-roof service van, or work with or without a partnership with Mercedes
Idea is sort of a pass-through system like Quiggly does for 4WD systems.
UPDATE TO MY COMMENT.... Mercedes is floating the concept van "ESprinter".... but the current design range is marginally usable at "UP TO" 150 Miles.... I will put that at 90 miles when considering use of Heat/AC, ancillary 115V power on service calls... 1800lbs of equipment and inventory.... 350 lbs of shelving and up-fitting in the back.
I do wonder how long motoring will be available to the masses.
Stricter emissions rules are ending city cars and other new cars becoming more expensive and complex through infotainment systems and electrification.
Where will the sub-£5k used car market be in 10 years time?
As for Lucid, Porsche, Audi et al, really expensive electric cars are great but affordable they are not. 400 mile range is just silly. I'd love to know who is doing London to Edinburgh non stop.
I live in south Florida, and it's 389 miles from my house just to the border of Georgia (the neighboring state). I also live in a fairly rural area and have a 40-mile round trip to doctors, many restaurants, and most friends' houses. My 2015 Tesla Model S has 257 miles of putative range (meaning highway range is significantly less.) I can't even get to Miami and back without recharging. Most EV's, including Lucid, have or are planning shorter-range, cheaper versions of their cars for people who don't need the higher battery capacity.
My brother has a Model 3 and lives in a condo in Atlanta. There are only two charging plugs for his large complex, and he cannot always find a free plug. So he needs as much range as possible just for daily local use due to not always being able to plug in when he arrives home.
What you call "just silly" might seem so in your circumstances . . . but you're not everyone.
I like how the lucid looks on the outside better than the tesla.
“Betrayed by his own son.” Nice nugget. For every Tesla, there are 100 Lucids. We forget: what makes the Tesla real is that you can actually go out there right. now and buy one. In fact get one that’s 15 years old and not only works but still looks cool: And can still update. It is a real car. You can’t kill what you can’t catch. Rowlinson is finding out he may have underrated Elon Musk as a factor in the Tesla success..
Call me when Lucid improves on Tesla’s 360 security cameras to alert and live stream to mobile devices when parked vehicles are being tampered with. I already prefer the look of Lucid.. but I’ll definitely be sold if that safety feature is incorporated!
Now after watching the video I prefer the Lucid by Tesla. It's sleeker design wise. It looks sharp.
I mean my 2018 Kia Rio gets 421 miles, big woop 😂
Honestly I'd still go with Tesla. Lucid needs time to mature
It's a pity it won't come to production
Awesome video. Thanks
Air is a great name for it. Lucid a tech sharing company. X pang is a tech sharing company. Tesla is a tech sharing company. The future is now "Electric" we cant compare any of these cars with ICE car of today. Driving any of them is better in every way. The big names of ICE age cars are shamed by these now available equivalent forms of transport. Cleaner, safer, faster, very low running, almost maintenance free, very long service life, Why would you buy anything else? The future is now.
Service readily available, Range, available charge stations, quick charge, comfort, cost are what I look for.
The greater the range, the fewer charging stations are needed.