Lucid has been impressing critics and clients alike with its all-electric Air sedan since launch. Whereas the model has definitely had some teething issues, like construct high quality points, software program bugs, and manufacturing slowdowns, that is fairly regular with upstart auto firms. Regardless of these points, the Lucid Air is among the many most spectacular and thrilling electrical autos on sale. However spectacular although it’s, Lucid was by no means going to actually break into the American market with out an SUV. That is why the brand new Lucid Gravity exists.
The Gravity has been in Lucid’s plans from the start. Sketches for each automobiles had been launched at across the similar time, and the Gravity was at all times meant to be the second act. Now that it is lastly right here, it wears a well-recognized design and packs comparable specs to its sedan sibling.
Utilizing the identical 900-volt battery structure because the Air, the Lucid Gravity is claimed to have a most vary of over 440 miles and a 0-60 mph time of below 3.5 seconds. Lucid would not say which fashions will boast these vary and efficiency figures, although. Nor does it say how large the battery will likely be, however Lucid CEO Peter Rawlinson claims that it is “a little bit greater than half the dimensions of a few of our battery hungry opponents.” Photographs fired at GM’s 200 kWh-plus Ultium batteries?
The Lucid Air Dream Version’s battery is 112 kWh, whereas the Pure and Touring fashions get a smaller 92 kWh pack. It might be protected to protected that the Gravity will use the identical packs. The Gravity can also be stated to have the ability to cost as much as 200 miles of vary in quarter-hour and will boast the identical cost speeds because the Air: 300 kW for the Dream version and 250 kW for different fashions.
Do not anticipate an enormous payload capability, because the Gravity can solely deal with 1,500 kilos, however the electrical SUV is claimed to have the ability to tow 6,000 kilos, which is half a ton greater than the Tesla Mannequin X.
Maybe unsurprisingly, the Lucid Gravity seems like somebody shot the Air with an embiggen ray. It has the identical entrance finish, with the identical headlights, simply with a taller entrance fascia. In contrast to the sedan, although, the frunk is massive sufficient to double as seating for 2 with the hood open, like a backwards Rolls-Royce Cullinan. Lucid even integrated the Air’s floating roofline into the Gravity’s D-pillar, with an added roof spoiler.
That stated, whereas the Air is a modern, subtle trying sedan with hints of French automotive design, the Gravity is not fairly as elegant, and would not put on the design language with the identical grace. Measurement most likely has one thing to do with it.
The “Air-but-more” motif continues within the cabin, the place the Gravity’s infotainment display is squarer, bigger, and now floats on the dashboard, not like the Air’s rectangular display that is constructed into the middle console. For some motive, Lucid dropped the Air’s nearly completely designed steering wheel for an oddly formed squircle with complicated thumb buttons. It seems like somebody dropped an anvil on a steering wheel that was spherical.
Second row passengers will likely be pleased, as they are going to have sufficient room to get tray tables on the entrance seat-backs. And because the Gravity is a seven-seater, there will likely be a two-seat third-row possibility.
The Gravity will begin at below $80,000, in response to Lucid, however it’s unclear what kind of vary and efficiency clients can anticipate from that entry-level mannequin. We’ll have to attend till its late-2024 launch date to search out out.
Bought ideas? Ship ’em to [email protected]