Tesla Tesla motors have been in the domestic market for 8 years, starting from the official delivery of the first Tesla Model S models in July 2014, announcing the official entry of Tesla, a pure electric brand, into the domestic market.
After entering the country, Tesla has also brought about a boom in domestic electric vehicle companies, although Tesla has a very important role in the second revival of electric vehicles, but its innovation in the field of mechanical technology and automobiles is not much, and even can be said to be less pitiful. Those who give Tesla a flattery day by day, please enlarge your horizons, look at the development of electric equipment in other fields, if you are interested, or understand what cutting-edge technology of automobiles appeared before Tesla appeared. However, Tesla wins in the country to win in the early time of entry, because our people basically have a preconceived bad habit, plus Tesla was an electric car imported from the United States in the early days, asking for more than 1 million yuan, all of which have become "luxury cars", blindly touting people will naturally be more, this law of human nature can be understood.
The current Tesla is quite powerful, but this does not mean that Tesla has no opponents, in a sense, Tesla's biggest opponent is its own hand, this "enemy" is still separated from Tesla, called Lucid Motors, Lucid Motors is a car company founded in 2007 electric vehicles and related technologies, formerly known as Atieva, renamed Lucid Motors in October 2016. Unlike Tesla, Lucid Motors is a car company that develops and produces high-performance luxury electric vehicles. According to Elon Musk, he would prefer to be Toyota than Mercedes... That's why the Model 3 and Model Y, which are much cheaper, will be developed, and the new car that will be launched in the future will be cheaper, not a luxury car.
Picture: Xiaobian hopes that you should remember that Tesla is a car company with no traditional car manufacturing experience at all, and its car manufacturing technology and design are all done by those masters.
Lucid Motors' CEO and chief technology officer is Peter Rawlinson (Peter Rawlinson), who has served as the chief engineer of Lotus, Jaguar, and Tesla's first and second models (what a production car will eventually look like, that is, the chief engineer decides), especially Lotus Elise, Evora, etc., which is known as the "road kart", is also handled by him, so the editor will say tesla's first, The second model is from him, because Tesla's first car is the Roadster, and the chassis is what Lotus wants.
Although the leadership team of Lucid Motors is some of the big gods who come out of the traditional car companies, this class of gods will not be worse than Tesla in playing high-tech, and it will be better. Why? Because Lucid Motors aims to build a fully autonomous vehicle, Elon Mask (Elon Musk) also boasted that it will appear at the end of 2020, but now that it is 2022, is it still hairless? You know, it is not difficult for autonomous driving to reach the L2 level, but it is a legal issue to reach L3, for example, the United States does not allow the L3 level to go on the road, because it will involve a wide range of social issues and conflicts between AI intelligence and a series of contradictions. Therefore, Lucid Motors' leaders from traditional car companies said that it will take at least 10 years to achieve 100% full autonomous driving. Although it already has a lot of very advanced hardware equipment, it still lacks too much in terms of software, legislation, etc., so it still needs more time to adjust.
Of course, the leaders are saying that 100% full self-driving takes more time, but in assisted driving, Lucid Motors has completed the entire system and is really playing better than Tesla. Lucid Motors' first model, the Lucid Air, is equipped with an advanced driver assistance system called Dream Drive Pro, which consists of 32 sensors, 14 cameras, 1 LiDAR lidar, 5 radars, and 12 ultrasonic units. The software part was developed in collaboration with NVDIA, the inventor of the GPU (graphics processing unit), and implemented the full-speed domain assisted driving system through NVIDIA's custom-developed Drive OS system. Some readers may say, isn't this Dream Drive Pro system and Tesla's FSD the same? How to play the slip, from the functional point of view the two are indeed similar, but Tesla's set of FSDs sold for $12,000, and Dream Drive Pro only needs $9,000, this is where the slip, the lower price with the same function, isn't it more fragrant?
The Lucid Air, founded by a group of elites from traditional car companies, and created by them using the traditional luxury car manufacturing concept, is much better than Tesla's Model S and X, two similarly priced models, in every way, so the audience of Tesla in the United States may have to be reshuffled.
The competition between Lucid and Tesla is more like a conceptual conflict between the traditional car-making concept and the new forces, Lucid represents the steady and steady faction, so no matter from the function and rationality of the vehicle, etc., it is higher than Tesla, and Tesla is the newborn calf faction, no technology and no experience, with publicity rescue, coupled with the American characteristics of the "political, economic and commercial media complex" That strong public opinion ability, the high market value can be bragged by a bunch of "blind hairs" into strength beyond the Toyota Volkswagen, So what's not to like?