Peter Rawlinson, who’d been the chief engineer for Tesla’s Model S, is ready to launch his Lucid Air from a factory in Casa Grande, Ariz., this spring. From a lot that Rawlinson called “bare earth,” a US $700 million factory sprang up in less than a year, with a capacity for 30,000 cars a year. And that’s just Phase 1.
Lucid Motor’s streamlined luxury sedan has thrown down an electric gauntlet, including a $139,000 Grand Touring version with an EPA-rated driving range of 832 kilometers (517 miles). That’s a historic high for any electric car, exceeding the Tesla Model S’s 402-mile mark by the distance from New York City to Hartford, Conn.
