Because the Lucid Air enters its fourth yr of manufacturing, the California startup continues to eke much more vary out of what was already a reasonably long-lasting electrical sedan. Lucid has managed to extend the Air Pure’s vitality effectivity to five.0 miles per kilowatt hour, yielding a 146 mixed MPGe ranking from the EPA and an estimated vary of 420 miles from its 84-kWh battery. Lucid claims this makes the brand new Air Pure probably the most environment friendly and sustainable car ever made.
That’s a daring (learn: debatable) declare from Lucid, contemplating we noticed the Mercedes-Benz Imaginative and prescient EQXX obtain a median of 8.3 miles per kWh in testing previous to the discharge of the brand new Lucid Air Pure. The distinction, in fact, is that the Imaginative and prescient EQXX is a prototype particularly made to problem the bounds of vitality density, whereas the Lucid Air Pure is a manufacturing sedan that begins round $70,000 within the U.S.
The distinction in vitality effectivity between the M-B and Lucid continues to be simply over 3 miles per kWh, however the Lucid Air Pure just isn’t that far off for a mass-produced mannequin that’s obtainable to order beginning right now. For reference, Mercedes says it received as much as 8.4 miles per kWh of effectivity from the Imaginative and prescient EQXX’s battery pack, which measures almost 100 kWh. The one-off Merc drove about 747 miles on a single cost throughout testing. The Air Pure has a smaller battery, nonetheless, coming in at 84 kilowatt hours. That’s additionally smaller than final yr’s Air Pure battery pack by 4 kilowatt hours, and a smaller battery is an effective factor.
Amongst different enhancements, Lucid says it elevated effectivity by making the EV’s warmth pump commonplace throughout Air fashions as a substitute of placing it solely on higher trims. Though the brand new Lucid Air Pure is priced on the backside of the lineup and positioned because the entry-level model of the posh EV, its value just isn’t what most would think about low cost. The bottom mannequin Lucid Air Pure begins at $69,900, whereas the Lucid Air Touring raises the value to $78,900, and the top-of-the-line Lucid Air Grand Touring begins at $110,900.
It comes as a welcome shock, then, that the 2025 Lucid Air Pure beats the upscale Air Touring with 14 miles of additional vary for a complete of 420 versus 406 miles, respectively. The Air Grand Touring will go as much as 512 miles per full cost, firmly staying on the high of the lineup when it comes to vary, however, additionally, price. For, now, the Air Pure is the king of effectivity among the many new Lucids and a mannequin citizen for EV rivals, which ought to all be aiming to cut back the dimensions and weight of their EV batteries.
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