Aerodynamics are key to the efficiency of any car, and the Lucid Air’s 0.21 coefficient of drag makes it incredibly slippery. The battery is a conventional lithium-ion unit, but it’s built in such a way that it minimizes weight, dimensions and cooling requirements. Next-Generation EngineeringĬonsider that these crazy, massive power numbers come from a dual-motor car that has an extremely sophisticated motor-differential unit with nearly three times the power density of competitors’ powertrains in a package that weighs 167 pounds and could fit in a roll-aboard suitcase. Everyone prefers to focus on battery size or range or recharge times - but if an electric car is engineered for maximum efficiency, all of those things fall into place. The key is efficiency, something that doesn’t get talked about all that much with electric cars. How does it do all this? How does it get amazing range numbers, incredible power numbers and charge as fast as it does? Simply put: This is basically the next-generation electric car that the Tesla Model S should have become by now but hasn’t. 2022 Lucid Air | photo by Christian Lantry Or if you’re charging at home, the Lucid Air can charge at up to 19.2 kW if you have a robust enough Level 2 charger and the circuit to feed it.
The car uses a 900-volt battery system, by far the most powerful on the market, and if you were to plug it into one of the still-rare 800- volt, 300- kilowatt DC fast chargers that are slowly appearing around the world, you’d be able to add 300 miles of range in just 20 minutes, according to Lucid. These numbers seem almost unbelievable, but it gets even better. Now, these are the first editions of the Air, the most expensive and they’re already sold out - but soon there will be three other trims coming: the least expensive Pure, with 480 hp and just over 400 miles of range, the Touring that keeps the range and ups the power to 620 hp, and the Grand Touring that does 800 hp and more than 500 miles of range. If you’d rather go for range, the Air Dream Edition Range can deliver 520 miles of it while dropping the power output to “only” 933 hp. If you’re looking for an all-out performance machine, the Air Dream Edition Performance comes with 1,111 horsepower and 1,025 pounds-feet of torque.
That car is this: the Air, a totally clean-sheet design for a luxurious, all-electric, incredibly powerful and opulent car.
The company built a brand-new factory in Arizona, and delivered its first cars to paying customers in October. It was founded in 2007 as a company that was meant to manufacture batteries for other automakers but eventually rebranded itself in 2016 and announced that it was going to be an automaker itself. The what, you say? You’ve certainly heard of Tesla, but you might not yet have heard of Lucid. Related: Long-Range Strike: Lucid Air EV Range Officially EPA-Rated Up to 520 Miles What the Heck Is a Lucid? But in the years since it appeared, the industry has started to catch up, and now if you want an all-electric, full-size luxury sedan, you have a few more options to choose from, including the Mercedes-EQ EQS, the Porsche Taycan or this, the 2022 Lucid Air.
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It’s received updates since then, but not a full redesign, and the Model S now looks much like the Model S did then. It might seem hard to believe, but the Tesla Model S is nearly a decade old now, first delivered as it was in June of 2012.
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