Lucid on Thursday confirmed that it plans to point out its extra inexpensive Air Pure and Air Touring fashions with a digital occasion on November 15 and a corresponding dwell reveal on the model’s retailer in Beverly Hills, California. Additionally at this occasion it can current an replace on the Venture Gravity SUV that is constructed on the identical suite of efficiency-focused expertise that underpins the Air lineup.
Lucid will present its tri-motor, top-performance Air Sapphire, alongside the Pure and Touring variations. With the Grand Touring and Touring Efficiency fashions additionally on show, it is going to be the primary time your entire lineup has been proven in public, the corporate says.
Whereas the $108,900 Touring model might be the closest match versus the present Tesla Mannequin S, the bottom Lucid Air Pure begins at $88,900, together with a $1,500 vacation spot charge. As such, the Pure undercuts the Tesla Mannequin S by greater than $17,000.
Lucid Air physique construction and battery pack
Whereas present Grand Touring variations of the Lucid Air include a 112-kwh battery pack, permitting as much as 516 miles, the Pure and Air Touring have a smaller 88-kwh pack. They’ll return a 406-mile projected (however not but finalized) EPA vary, when geared up with 19-inch wheels, Lucid says. That’s one mile higher than Tesla earns with the Mannequin S, on roughly a tenth much less vitality.
The Pure, provided initially in dual-motor type however with a single-motor rear-wheel-drive model on the best way, is the primary Air mannequin distinguished by a strong aluminum roof, as an alternative of the glass cover roof constructed into Dream Version and Grand Touring fashions. The strong roof is coming to mid-range Touring variations later, but it surely’s the one means the Pure will probably be constructed.
