Lucid Air welcomes new trim at The Quail this week
Lucid is one other one of many automakers placing down roots at this yr’s Monterey Automobile Week, which is underway now. The battery-electric Air shall be making appearances at Motorlux and the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, ex-Stig Ben Collins will flog a 1,113-horsepower Air Grand Touring Efficiency round Laguna Seca, and guests with the correct, ahem, credentials, shall be invited to take one of many fleet out through the Lucid Dream Forward Tour Experience & Drive program. Then, on August 19, Lucid will take the microphone at The Quail to introduce a “a brand new addition to the Lucid Air lineup.” Due to a trio of teaser tweets over the previous week, the ultimate one displaying what appears to be like like three electrical motor stators, the debut is broadly anticipated to be the Air’s three-motor model.
Three is a magic quantity. See why at The Quail. 8.19.22 #BlueMeansGo #DreamAhead pic.twitter.com/7BihZBhw78
— Lucid Motors (@LucidMotors)
August 16, 2022
The tweets have additionally been tagged with the phrase, “Blue means go,” so search for some azul references come Friday.
In the meanwhile, the dual-motor Air Grand Touring sits on the prime of output mountain, making as much as 1,050 horsepower. The one model with extra puissance launched up to now was 1,111-hp Air Dream Version, which was offered out. Prior to now — when the corporate set a 1:31.34 lap time round Laguna Seca and needed to have the three-motor trim out in 2021 — Lucid CEO Peter Rawlinson stated this strongest variant makes 1,300 horsepower simply utilizing the 2 motors on the rear axle. Permitting that every motor peaks at 670 horsepower, contribution from the unit on the entrance has guesses for whole output starting from 1,300 to 2,000 horsepower. We’ll know in two days.
After that, for anybody visiting the Monterey shore this weekend, they’re going to discover the contemporary Air on the Idea Garden. They need to additionally anticipate finding a purchase order value effectively above the $154,000 opening bids for the Grand Touring — however that is what Pebble Seaside is for. Manufacturing is rumored to start someday in 2023.
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