Lucid is planning to go mainstream with the launch of two midsize EVs that can price round $50,000. They’re the automobiles wanted to spice up the producer’s gross sales into the lots of of 1000’s and make Lucid a family identify all over the world.
Nonetheless, in keeping with a latest report, Lucid has a whole “midsize program,” which can outcome within the creation of three extra reasonably priced fashions. We already know that two of them will likely be aimed on the Tesla Mannequin 3 and Mannequin Y, respectively, however what in regards to the third?
CarBuzz discovered of the Lucid midsize program after speaking to the corporate’s senior vice chairman of design, Derek Jenkins, who stopped wanting saying what this mysterious third mannequin was. He admitted that they have been “large wagon followers” at Lucid, however he famous that it’s a phase in decline, and the producer can’t threat growing a mannequin it is aware of gained’t promote in enough numbers.
It’s in all probability not going to be a sports activities automobile both, with Jenkins noting that he sees development potential within the off-road house, which he believes “will proceed to morph and evolve.” This narrows it all the way down to some sort of high-riding automobile and probably one that’s designed to be good off-road. Might it’s known as the Lucid Ocean?
He added that “you are going to have merchandise which might be making an attempt to cater to the perimeter of off-roading, like rock crawling, after which you’ve got your regular crossover merchandise.” Lucid goes to have a “regular crossover” in its vary within the type of its Mannequin Y rival, leaving room for one thing that is a bit extra targeted on going off-road, a automobile that may extra intently rival a Rivian R2.
Jeep clearly thinks this extra off-road-focused finish of the reasonably priced electrical crossover market deserves its personal mannequin, which is why it’s engaged on the Recon, though it’s additionally anticipated to launch a completely electrical Wrangler. Mercedes can also be engaged on a smaller model of the G-Wagen, which may even be obtainable as a battery-electric automobile.
With plans to finally promote a million automobiles per 12 months, Lucid has achieved its homework earlier than selecting which segments to increase into, speculating that the smaller off-road-focused electrical crossover would possibly turn out to be a giant factor in just a few years. There isn’t any phrase on once we would possibly count on to see Lucid’s midsize off-roader, however it could possibly be proven alongside the opposite two, which ought to enter manufacturing earlier than the top of 2026.