At HQ, Lucid Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer Peter Rawlinson stopped by to discuss plans for continued growth at the AMP-1 plant in Casa Grande, Arizona, where he predicted that updates and expansion to the facility will allow for the production of 90,000 vehicles per year starting in 2025.
But this year, Lucid only plans to sell 9,000 units, after a record first quarter that included the production of 1,728 Airs (down 27% from Q4 2023) and a sales total of 1,967 (up 13%). That leaves 7,300 more vehicles to be built over the next nine months, which Rawlinson hopes will be bolstered by the price drops for model year 2024. Without a doubt, to reach the kind of volume targets that Rawlinson and Lucid have set, forthcoming models need to help with both sales and recognition.
The previously announced Gravity, a full-sized SUV that will seat up to eight passengers, continues development and testing. Two test mules in the Newark facility showed the wear of road miles on camouflaged patterned wrap jobs, as engineers hope to dial in driving dynamics and the potentially world-beating 0.24 coefficient of drag (a record for full-sized SUVs if real life holds up to CFD modeling).
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