The smooth Lucid Air EV has managed to win the corporate some followers with its distinctive styling and incredible drivetrain. Nonetheless, producing a single luxurious sedan is just not a profitable technique for a younger and upcoming automaker. It will need to have new fashions within the pipeline to cater to a wider viewers, beginning with the 2024 Lucid Gravity SUV, which is now set to debut this November.
The information was revealed throughout Lucid’s earnings name this week, which confirmed that the Gravity can be revealed later this 12 months. The luxurious SUV started testing on public roads within the U.S. earlier this 12 months, with Lucid releasing restricted images of the event mules out within the wild.
Very like its sedan sibling, the Gravity is ready to be a cutting-edge automobile in and out. Lucid claims it’s going to have an extended vary than any electrical SUV presently available on the market. Given the prodigious 520-mile vary out there on the Lucid Air, it appears well-placed to ship on that declare. It is anticipated to supply supercar-like acceleration and sporty driving dynamics, too. It is going to additionally debut Lucid’s new Glass Cockpit high-resolution shows, operating the next-generation Lucid UX person interface.
Configurations with 5, six, and 7 seats are anticipated to be out there, with the six-seater prone to be essentially the most luxurious given it hints at captain’s chairs within the second row. Early footage launched beforehand present a smooth trendy inside with an expansive glasshouse, not dissimilar to the design of the Air.
Lucid is doing principally effectively for a startup automaker and is on its strategy to constructing 10,000 automobiles this 12 months. Nonetheless, manufacturing of the Gravity is not prone to start till late 2024. Past that, the corporate has longer-term plans for a Tesla Mannequin 3 fighter within the $50,000 vary, whereas it is also licensing its drivetrain know-how to outdoors companions like Aston Martin.
Maybe the best problem forward for Lucid shall be scaling. It is exhausting sufficient to provide one automotive in actual numbers, not to mention including an SUV into the combo. If it could possibly hit the identical marks of high quality, efficiency, and vary when the Gravity hits the market subsequent 12 months, it may have a winner on its arms. On the very least, it picked a terrific identify for the brand new mannequin.
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