Recently, electric vehicle manufacturer Lucid announced the Lucid Air Grand Touring Performance model, which will be equipped with 1,050 horsepower and start at $179,000.
Speaking of the Lucid brand, most people have not heard of it, let's briefly introduce the Lucid car, please take notes, because he is likely to be Tesla's biggest competitor.
What is Lucid?
Lucid Automobile is a new brand of electric vehicles in California, known as the "Xiaopeng Motors" in the United States, which was founded by a large number of former Tesla employees, and some netizens jokingly called it the "Avengers". In November last year, it officially delivered its first car, the Lucid Air, to users, and the price and positioning of the model were directly benchmarked against the Tesla Model S. Lucid positions itself as a "post-luxury brand," a post-luxury car brand, while rival Tesla is defined as "innovative but not luxury," i.e., innovative but not luxurious. Lucid's luxury concept is to combine Audi's technology luxury, Mercedes-Benz's classic luxury, BMW's sports luxury, and sublimate it twice.
How did Lucid's first car, the Lucid Air, perform?
Appearance direction, because its founding team contains a large number of former Tesla employees, so in the design of the vehicle, more or less have the shadow of Tesla Model S. The length of the vehicle is 4973mm, and with its body posture designed to greatly reduce the wind resistance coefficient, the overall visual effect is slender and flexible. The front face is designed with a narrow strip grille and chrome trim, which makes it very sporty. The narrow headlights are arranged with dot matrix LED beads, and the recognition of the entire front face is very outstanding.
The interior is the biggest highlight of this car, the new car central control screen and instrument using a 34-inch curved 5K screen design that tilts towards the driver, and there is also a screen below the central control to view information about the vehicle. The materials used in other locations of the interior are also very sincere, with a high sense of technology and luxury, in stark contrast to tesla's minimalist design of the interior, see here, Tesla, are you panicked?
In terms of power, the car adopts a dual-motor design, the motor is smaller than Tesla, but the power is more powerful, and its maximum horsepower is 1080 horses, which is currently the largest electric vehicle with the largest power output. Its self-developed permanent magnet synchronous motor is the top presence in terms of peak power and power density, and in terms of technological innovation, Lucid can fully compete with Tesla. In addition, under the U.S. EPA test standard, the comprehensive cruising range is 836 kilometers, and if it is tested in China, the mileage will be higher.
Is lucid really a "Tesla killer"?
Since lucid was founded, many people have given it the title of "Tesla Killer", and many people think that it is Tesla's biggest competitor, but is this really the case? First of all, Lucid auto is positioned as a high-end luxury brand car, in 2021, only 577 vehicles will be delivered, and is expected to deliver 20,000 vehicles in 2022, while Tesla will sell 936,000 units worldwide in 2021, a staggering figure that Lucid can not hope for.
Second, Lucid's vehicles are currently only in production at the Arizona plant, and only the first phase of construction has been completed. Compared with Tesla's gigafactories in Shanghai, Texas and other places that have been put into production, it is much inferior, and the production capacity temporarily limits Lucid's growth.
Third, Lucid cars currently have only two delivery locations, namely the Americas and Europe, which is even more incomparable with Tesla, after all, Tesla's layout and development for many years have laid the foundation for its industry leader, Lucid wants to reach Tesla standards in recent years, and there is still a long way to go.
Finally, the competitors of Lucid cars should be traditional luxury brands, such as Mercedes-Benz S-Class, not Tesla Model S, and Tesla "hard", belonging to the big stupid elephant farming field - there is nowhere to go!
Although Lucid cars currently have good sales and reputation, but it is still too far from Tesla, whether it is product or layout, Lucid cars may be 5-6 years later to really compete with Tesla, and in recent years, Lucid cars should be replenished, improve product quality and level, get more user recognition, do a good job in the future layout, and really share a piece of the high-end luxury field.