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Vehicle Preview: Lucid Air<\/h1>\n

Setting the Definition of Luxury Mobility<\/h2>\n

By Randy Lioz, Editor, Car-ED.com |\u00a0February 2018<\/p>\n

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At the recent Los Angeles Auto Show, Car-ED had an exclusive chat with Lucid Motors VP of Design Derek Jenkins<\/strong>.\u00a0He is what you would call “a designer’s designer,” with an impressive resume that shows he’s helped put into place some of the most exciting and respected design languages in the industry, at brands like Audi and Mazda. Jenkins is tasked with bringing the company’s first luxury EV sedan, the Lucid Air, to market by 2019, and he and Marketing Director Zak Edson gave us a thorough walk-around of their upcoming vehicle and some insight into the company\u2019s plans for the rollout.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Who is this company?<\/h2>\n

Lucid has been around since 2007, at first focusing on battery technology under the name Atieva, but in the past few years has parlayed that research into developing their own car. Lucid is an electric vehicle luxury brand, and as such some see it as a challenger to Tesla. It has also lured away a decent number of Elon Musk\u2019s employees, including Lucid Chief Technology Officer Peter Rawlinson, but the upstart is aiming to best the Silicon Valley star in a few key ways.<\/p>\n

First of all is their battery and powertrain technology.<\/strong> Lucid says it\u2019s making big advances in energy density and charging speed. In fact, the company has said it may eventually be able to charge its vehicles more than twice as fast as Teslas on their Supercharger network, but right now that\u2019s limited by the speeds of the network.<\/p>\n

But the company is also claiming big breakthroughs in terms of their batteries\u2019 tolerance for quick charging. The competition can be severely affected by repeated use of DC fast chargers\u2014reportedly to the tune of losing 30% of their battery capacity. Lucid says their battery chemistry enables them to avoid this kind of degradation. And the Lucid Air will have a range of up to 400 miles, which is around 50 more miles than that of Tesla\u2019s top Model S, the 100D.<\/p>\n<\/div>