Lucid on Tuesday introduced a variety of adjustments to the 2024 Lucid Air lineup, which now begins at $78,900 with vacation spot.
That base value is $5,000 decrease than earlier than, however that is as a result of all-wheel drive is not customary on the bottom Air Pure mannequin. The Pure launched with all-wheel drive, however a rear-wheel drive model that launched in October is now the bottom mannequin. The one-motor model makes 430 hp and retains the earlier 88-kwh battery pack, affording an EPA-rated 419-mile vary that outdoes something within the Tesla Mannequin S lineup (and is barely increased than what Lucid beforehand introduced).
That makes the Air Touring the most cost effective mannequin to supply all-wheel drive. Beginning at $87,400 with vacation spot, it has 620 hp and a 92-kwh pack that affords an EPA-rated 411 miles of vary.
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A revamped Air Grand Touring mannequin is on the way in which, with pricing and vary to be introduced in early 2024. The 819-hp Grand Touring will get an up to date dual-motor powertrain with higher thermal efficiency that may enable longer durations of “spirited driving,” Lucid claims. It can make use of classes realized from the defunct Air Grand Touring Efficiency mannequin.
The high-performance Lucid Air Sapphire has additionally joined the lineup at $250,500, with what many contemplate to be efficiency that beats the Tesla Mannequin S Plaid—albeit at a a lot increased value. A 1,234-hp tri-motor powertrain permits 0-60 mph in 1.89 seconds, 0-100 mph in 3.84 seconds, and a 205-mph prime velocity. Lucid additionally anticipates 427 miles of vary.
Lucid has additionally reshuffled availability of some particular person options. A glass roof is now a $4,000 choice on Touring and Grand Touring fashions, whereas the darkened Stealth package deal returns as a $1,750 choice on Airs with a metallic roof and a $3,500 choice on Airs with a glass roof.
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Whereas the Air beats the Mannequin S and vary and—in Sapphire trim, a minimum of—efficiency, it has been deprived by fluctuating costs. Lucid raised costs in Might 2022, however that hike principally did not stick. Nonetheless, Tesla, reduce costs on the Mannequin S at a number of factors this previous 12 months, permitting it to undercut Lucid.
Rather than a tax credit score, Lucid has additionally been making use of a $7,500 “credit score” courtesy of the federal authorities to assist incentivize leases, and whereas that is perhaps a loophole some politicians wish to see closed, at current there isn’t any purpose why that will not additionally proceed.