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The Air was never expected to make Lucid profitable. It was a product meant to put Lucid on the map by breaking range and efficiency records -- something that could not be done with an SUV. The Saudis are in this for the long game and have the patience that many retail investors lack to put up the money to prepare Lucid now for future volume from more mainstream and lower-priced products. They also have the foresight that certain elements of American politics lack to deal with the fact that we will eventually need alternatives to fossil fuel propulsion as well as economies that depend less on fossil fuels. I'm no fan of Saudi Arabia, but it is American investors and politics that opened the door for them to gain a foothold in the leading edge of EV technology. It is what it is. And, in turning away from Elon Musk and toward Peter Rawlinson in 2017, they were smart enough to bet on the only man who has led the engineering of two EVs that won the Motor Trend Car of the Year Award: the 2012 Tesla Model S and the 2022 Lucid Air.
That is true but wouldn't Gravity launch as a 2025 model at this point? Doesn't make more sense from a manufacturing perspective to start with the port all 2025 vehicles will have instead of using CCS and then changing the manufacturing process to the other port later?
The gravity looks like a pretty impressive vehicle with impressive specs. Hopefully it will sell well and maybe they could make a profit someday :-) oh, what is the charge port? NACS?
Very good video, thank. As far as I know, lucid gravity will in three trims : 1- Gravity Dream Edition 2- Gravity GT 3- Gravity Touring . About the charging station, I totally agree with you, but Lucid owners have lots of Range and they can charge from home.
Since you pointed out the Rivian charging network, let me tell you, its an absolute piece of shite. You share one power cabinet between three chargers, unlike Tesla sharing between two chargers. I've had a maximum charging speed of 80kw when two places were being used on my side. Also, Rivian goes out of its way to suggest its own chargers versus a better option in EVGo being near me. With Rivian gaining access to Superchargers, what I do with my roadtrips, is rather than just plugging in the final destination, I have my roadtrips from A->B->C in terms of chargers. It's much less stressful that way. Wife gave up her phev recently and has a Model 3 rwd Long Range on order, which is definitely going to become our road tripping car. 363 miles on a single charge!! Fully loaded with two adults, two young teens, a retriever and our luggage, I'm hoping it gets at least 250-270 miles of highway range.
The disingenuous thing about saying that they're losing X amount of money per vehicle is that in reality, the issue is not so much that they're losing it PER vehicle, it's that they're losing that amount of money investing in research and development, in different sorts of production techniques, machinery, land costs, everything is factored in. They're not making a net profit but they are making a profit so while they are losing money, they're gaining some profit while producing each vehicle. It's like saying a Toyota Corolla technically costs $400 million just because that's what Toyota invested to create/bring in the technology behind them (batteries, motors, engines, fuel tanks and all the materials and engineering required to produce a vehicle) which is just.. not true. Sure, you don't make profit for the first couple thousand or so cars, but after you've made many cars then you start making a profit, it's just basic economics, as you scale each unit turns a higher profit. Now, I will say that their products are more financially demanding, and therefore require significantly higher upfront investment costs. But once those investment costs have been made it's cheddar time, and after being in the red for awhile while being net profitable, you will eventually go back into the green.
@@danhersey2531cheaper by how much, economy of scale can only help if cost of good sold allows it to be. There is a difference, losing more money than economy of scale could offset is a big problem. And at what scale will they become profitable? Does Lucid even know?
You are right they should the charging infrastructure to support their cars. They should build it out to be profit center for lucid. First they should design the charging to work perfectly with their cars and future proof it. Second install enough chargers for big roadtrip or sell the charger set that work for all cars at more than 19 chargers. 4 stall gas station can handle 48 cars or less per hour so electric car can charge to full or close in 30 minutes or less 20 chargers can do 40 cars for 1 hour. In another build a charging that works for all Ev with guaranteed profit for the companies that want participate.
Sounds nice yeah makes things difficult arguably for Rivian even to have a new EV only competitor in the space-Elon doesn’t like his former worker at Lucid so drama ha🤪
Did you spend more time talking about charging than about the vehicle? Clocking almost 50,000 miles I have super charged about 4,000 miles. . . Half of that on Tesla Superchargers. The superchargers are nice. . . But it's not a big deal unless you plan to DC charge often
@@TailosiveEV I agree people drive long distances. . . But that is not the majority of miles. . . Also the supercharger bonus is not that big. But what do I know. . . . I just own a Tesla and have driven it cross country with the Supercharging network failing me.
@@TailosiveEV Just watched your video on Whistlin Diesel, I get it now. You view everything through the prism of a Tesla Fan. Your entire video makes a lot more sense now. Tesla has made some great products and completely changed the industry. Very exciting company to follow the last decade. My guess is you are invested in Tesla heavily and want them to succeed even when discussing non-Tesla topics. My prism is Tesla is distracted, they are focused on Robots, their CEO is focused on Twitter and autonomy. Plus they make non-sense statement like "Lidar is expensive" when my phone, 3D printer, and vacuum all have Lidar and each cost
I think Lucid has a fantastic product, but they appear to be on the same track as Fisker: People are concerned about the longevity of the company and therefore don't want to sink a large amount of money into a vehicle that may or may not have any support in a few years.
@@yousefalhashan2760 He can still get his hands on one at some point. He seems to be a fair reviewer, but that Fisker Ocean was not ready for consumer sales and he pointed this out in detail.
Wait until you see the Mpge numbers when they come out. I think you'll find this Lucid SUV is considerably more efficient than much smaller gasoline-powered vehicles. In fact, if Lucid meets its promise of 3.6 m/kWh for the Gravity, that equates to about 144 miles per gallon for an ICE vehicle.
@@blakespringpasturemortimer9168 that will be interesting, I just get frustrated when I see 78% of single occupant commuters driving 5-7 pax vehicles (with any power plant) clogging the roads and stifling innovation of smaller practical commuter vehicles. Here's hoping Aptera can make a dent in that market.
@@rednose1966 Well, this bot has owned two Tesla Model S’s (2015 P90D and 2021 Plaid, which I still have) and a Lucid Air Dream Performance. I probably know more about both brands than you ever will.
