Lucid Gravity: Luxury SUV aims for the range record
The US start-up Lucid Motors is trying a second model – and is presenting a luxury electric SUV with the Gravity. This underpins the company’s claim to stay on Tesla’s heels.
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Luxury SUV with electric drive and seven seats
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Aim for generous space and high-quality equipment
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Range should be similar to that of the Air
With the Lucid Air, the company Lucid Motors from the USA made a sensational debut: it combines a range of 900 kilometers with an unbelievable 1111 hp and an acceleration of 2,7 seconds from 0 to 100 km/H. In doing so, Lucid followed up the claim, expressed by many manufacturers, to be Tesla hunters.
But the manufacturer, based in Newark, California, does not want to leave it at the debut work: With the heaviness Factory Lucid Motors – the Tesla Model X firmly in view – the first SUV. As with the limousine predecessor, the main aim is to convince customers with a long range.
Lucid Gravity: Electric SUV aims for long range
Not much IS known about the SUV that WILL be in the luxury segment. But Lucid has his own goals pinned up: The range is said to be the highest of all BEVs (Battery Electric Vehicles) currently on the market, only the purchase from Lucid Air is said to be able to keep up.
There die Lucid Air Dream Edition range 900 kilometers, a similar mark should also be targeted for the Gravity. For comparison: die yourself range version the Tesla Model S only covers 634 kilometers, the Mercedes-Benz EQS 684 kilometers.
Lucid Gravity: Airy, luxurious interior
In the new upper-class SUV, as in the Lucid Air, special generous space to rule. Up to seven passengers will be comfortably seated with the optional third row of seats. The roof is likely to be made of glass again, which again reinforces the open spatial impression.
On the outside, you can probably tell that the Gravity is related to the Lucid Air: the snout looks a bit like the front of the sedan is pointing upwards, and that’s also the case at the back edgeless and smooth design of the air fort.
overconsumption and more details becomes Lucid Motors early 2023 inform, from then on the car can also be pre-ordered in Canada and the USA. There is no information yet for the European market.
On the Price is also still nothing known. The SUV will certainly not be cheap. Lucid has ranged from $87,000 for the Air Pure to a quarter of a million for the Air update Sapphire. A six-digit sum will certainly be due.
Lucid: strategy for the future
The launch of the Gravity, as well as versions of the Lucid Air, shows that Lucid Motors is not aiming for a one-off marketing effect. Saudi Arabia is the major investor behind the company. Incidentally, the Lucid Motors plant also has a factory there that is expected to produce 155,000 vehicles per year. die financing the company also seems to be permanently secured.
The past of the current Lucid boss Peter Rawlinson also points to the future strategy: Rawlinson was once responsible for the technology of the Model S at Tesla until he switched to Californian neighbor Lucid as CEO.
Especially on the American market, Lucid Motors is trying to position itself as a Alternative to musk–group to establish. But Europe was also identified as a lucrative market: in addition to the first European showroom in downtown Munich, there has now been a location in Geneva since November. And Switzerland, as everyone knows, is a good place for all luxury products.