California-based startup Lucid Motors makes among the most spectacular electrical automobiles on the planet. Their designs are gorgeous, their tech is class-leading, and their straight-line efficiency would not comport with the legal guidelines of physics as we presently perceive them. However Lucid’s additionally had loads of startup challenges with gross sales, money stream, prices and extra. Here is one reply that would put numbers on the board immediately: pickup truck.
That is America. The reply to plenty of issues is simply “pickup truck.”
A current sighting of what seems to be a Lucid electrical pickup truck has us considering in that path. The parents at Lucid Discussion board posted this photograph of a clay mannequin truck, parked subsequent to what may very well be the Gravity SUV attributable to make its debut on the Los Angeles Auto Present this week. Does this actually imply a Lucid truck is coming quickly? That is extraordinarily unclear. A Lucid spokesperson declined to touch upon future merchandise.
On one hand, there are apparent visible similarities to the Lucid Air sedan, and to the teasers we have seen for the brand new Gravity. It is a good-looking, glossy design, and one which manages to hold over the Lucid design language right into a truck that feels recent and new – not spinoff of one thing just like the Rivian R1T. However that is additionally very clearly a clay mannequin, not something near show-car prepared.
Alternatively, a extra zoomed-out photograph posted on X the opposite day reveals the truck and the SUV subsequent to a previous-generation Vary Rover – implying this might simply be a clay mannequin design research of some type, which automakers do on a regular basis. In different phrases, this might simply be one thing purely inner that someway caught the sunshine of day when it mustn’t have.
It is arduous to have a look at this and financial institution on the potential of an actual Lucid truck, however clearly, the corporate has considered it. It might nicely be an fascinating game-changer for the startup firm. Whereas the Air sedan is extraordinarily spectacular and affords among the finest vary yow will discover anyplace, it has suffered for being a sedan in an SUV world and for its excessive price ticket. A Lucid pickup, of all issues, might put that firm into a completely new section of consumers. (And let’s be trustworthy, it most likely appears higher than this factor does.)
We’ll get extra from Lucid Motors this week on the LA Auto Present when the Gravity debut occurs, and we’ll see if we are able to be taught something about any pickup vehicles that could be within the firm’s future.