The 1,234-horsepower Lucid Air Sapphire is the world’s strongest manufacturing four-door sedan. The EV boasts unbelievable efficiency figures, together with providing over 400 miles of vary on a single cost, and you’ll watch Ben Collins, aka The Stig of Prime Gear fame, unleash the sedan’s full fury at Sonoma Raceway within the video above.
Collins known as the Air a “Monster” within the video with “Monster energy from all 4 wheels.” It is a beastly machine weighing over 5,300 kilos, but it was “nimble.” It had “improbable” energy and “unbelievable” pickup. It was so good Collins discovered it arduous to consider he was piloting a household sedan. “The efficiency is ridiculous,” The Stig stated.
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The video is brief at two-and-a-half minutes because the EV made fast work of the 12-turn, 2.5-mile race observe though it weighs over 5,300 kilos. Its battery pack is not mild, however Lucid’s engineers labored to make sure it dealt with effectively on the limits. Collins stated throughout his lap that issues had been “in steadiness” behind the wheel.
The Lucid has no hassle motivating itself and all its heft with the triple-motor, all-wheel-drive powertrain setup. One of many motors sits on the entrance axle, whereas the opposite two spin the rear tires. The automotive produces 1,234 horsepower and 1,430 pound-feet of torque. It has a most prime pace of 205 miles per hour and may rocket to 60 miles per hour in an eye-watering 1.9 seconds.
A number of months in the past, the much less highly effective Lucid Air Dream Efficiency drag raced a Porsche 911 Turbo S. The 2 returned the identical quarter-mile time of 10.3 seconds, which was astonishing for the radically completely different machines.
The Air’s unbelievable efficiency comes at a steep worth – $250,500 – and it is simply not the ability that the automotive provides. Its 118.0-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery can present as much as 427 miles of vary on a single cost, besting the Tesla Mannequin S Plaid that has 394 miles.