After years of teasers, Lucid on Thursday lastly revealed its first SUV, the Gravity. The all-electric utility automobile guarantees a most vary of over 440 miles and a beginning worth underneath $80,000, with manufacturing anticipated to start in late 2024.
Lucid says the Gravity is a luxurious electrical SUV with out compromise. Inside you will discover seating for as much as seven individuals or, with the second and third rows folded, greater than 112.0 cubic ft of space for storing accessible. The Gravity can deal with over 1,500 kilos of payload, and tow as much as 6,000 kilos. With no trailer hooked up, Lucid claims the Gravity can dash to 60 mph in simply 3.5 seconds.
That sports-car-like acceleration is due to a brand new platform developed from the bottom up primarily based on the corporate’s 900-volt electrical structure. Lucid describes the battery pack as smaller, lighter, and extra sustainable, able to including as much as 200 miles of vary in roughly quarter-hour. It is linked to in-house designed electrical motors the corporate claims are probably the most power-dense presently in manufacturing.
The Gravity can impress off-road, too, with an non-compulsory air suspension system Lucid calls Zero Gravity. It will probably routinely elevate and decrease itself primarily based on numerous terrain wants, in accordance with the corporate. For many who would somewhat alter trip peak manually, the system gives the flexibility to take action.
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Lucid makes an enormous deal concerning the Gravity’s inside, describing the cabin as an expertise “designed for each the physique and the thoughts.” To that finish, the corporate has added a characteristic referred to as Lucid Areas, which, on the faucet of a touchscreen, “transforms the cabin right into a serene oasis, immersing drivers within the soothing ambiance of places like Lake Tahoe or Joshua Tree.” It does this by exhibiting surroundings on the cabin screens, adjusting cabin lighting, and taking part in ambient sounds by means of the speaker system.
Like Lucid’s different automotive, the Air sedan, the dashboard is made up largely of screens, with a big 34-inch gauge cluster spanning the size of the driving force’s aspect and central portion of the forward-facing area. Above the middle console you will discover Lucid’s “Pilot Panel,” which is only a fancy identify for yet one more display screen that controls issues like automobile settings and local weather.
The Gravity very clearly borrows a lot of its exterior design scheme from its Air sibling, with related entrance and rear fascias that embrace a blade-like nostril with sharp, skinny headlights. We might describe it as good-looking, and a far step above among the lifeless, oftentimes awkward-looking stuff coming from different mainstream luxurious producers.
Whereas most vary numbers and beginning worth have been revealed, it is not clear simply how costly the Gravity with probably the most vary might be, or how a lot vary the most affordable Gravity will get. If the Air sedan’s numbers are something to go by, anticipate the sub-$80,000 Gravity to realize a excessive 300-mile vary. And do not be shocked to see the 440-mile Gravity priced into the six-figure vary.