The 2025 Lucid Air Pure is essentially the most environment friendly car offered within the U.S.
Lucid CEO Peter Rawlinson mentioned opponents are years behind
Rawlinson believes effectivity is the important thing to EVs
Lucid Group CEO Peter Rawlinson is assured that the automaker has constructed up a considerable benefit in EV effectivity.
The 2025 Lucid Air Pure achieves 146 MPGe in EPA testing and 5.0 miles per kwh primarily based solely on its 420-mile vary ranking, making it essentially the most environment friendly U.S.-market car no matter powertrain kind, Lucid has mentioned. In a LinkedIn put up, Rawlinson added that it’s going to take rivals years to succeed in this mark at their present charge of progress.
Lucid graph evaluating Air effectivity with Tesla Mannequin S, Porsche Taycan, and Mercedes-Benz EQS
Rawlinson’s put up included a graph evaluating the historic enhancements in MPGe of the Tesla Mannequin S, Porsche Taycan, and Mercedes-Benz EQS sedan to the Air, utilizing knowledge from the EPA’s fueleconomy.gov web site. At its present charge of progress, Tesla might match the Air Pure’s 146 MPGe in 2032, based on Lucid, whereas Porsche and Mercedes are even additional behind.
“Effectivity is of important significance in making a greater, lighter, extra spacious, longer-range car, and straight impacts the price of manufacture,” Rawlinson mentioned. “Due to this fact, effectivity is arguably the one most legitimate litmus check of an organization’s core EV technological functionality.”
2025 Lucid Air Pure
A extra effectivity EV can journey farther on a given quantity of electrical energy, permitting for a discount in battery-pack measurement that has quite a few advantages together with decrease value, weight discount, and smaller demand for uncooked supplies. It is why effectivity, not vary, is what drives Lucid engineering. The Air Pure depends on a pretty big 84.0-kwh pack to realize its EPA vary ranking and its $71,400 base value is not thought-about reasonably priced.
Lucid hopes to use a few of its efficiency-focused engineering to a less-expensive mannequin dubbed “Venture Midsize” that is slated to debut in 2026, following the launch of the Lucid Gravity SUV later this yr. Each initiatives will doubtless be funded partly by a recent $1.5 billion money injection from Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund (PIF), which is already Lucid’s largest shareholder.