The Lucid Air is assembled at two factories all over the world–the primary one is in Casa Grande, Arizona, and the second is in Saudi Arabia, in King Abdullah Financial Metropolis (KAEC), some 80 miles north of Jeddah.
However whereas we haven’t seen any police division in america interested by changing an $80,000+ luxurious EV right into a police cruiser, the story is a bit totally different within the American startup’s adoptive nation.
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A zero-emissions EV police automotive surrounded by dozens of fuel guzzlers
A Lucid Air all-electric sedan has been transformed right into a police cruiser in Saudi Arabia forward of the nation’s World Protection Present. An official video exhibits the EV surrounded by dozens of gas- and diesel-powered army and police automobiles.
A number of photographs and movies posted on-line present at the least one police-spec Air sedan has been prepped by the Saudi Arabia Common Directorate of Public Safety to make an look at this 12 months’s World Protection Present that’s at the moment working within the capital metropolis of Riyadh.
The social media posts embedded beneath (hat tip to Teslarati) present the American EV subsequent to a slew of army and police automobiles patrolling the streets of the Center Japanese nation. Lucid’s police cruiser is dressed within the standard patrol car apparel, but it surely additionally has a reasonably slick roof-mounted flashing lights field that doubles as a drone launch pad.
What may that drone be used for? We don’t know. Does it look cool? Perhaps.
What we do know is that Lucid Motors is owned by an affiliate of Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund (PIF), which holds about 60.5% of the California-based EV maker and drive unit developer. So it is smart that the nation that forked about $1.8 billion to fund the posh producer final 12 months would get an Air sedan that goes Woop-Woop.
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