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The electric car Lucid Air and Lucid Gravity are manufactured in Casa Grande, Arizona. The pressing of body parts is done from steel coils. In 2023, more than 9,000 cars were produced thereThere are 7,000 Lucid Motors employees, with most of them working on the main assembly line
Series production began in September of 2021 with the Lucid Air. Lucid plans to compete directly with Tesla
After the car body is welded together, the electric car moves on to an anti-corrosion coating
The plant’s initial capacity is 10,000 cars per year and can produce more than 300,000 cars after a planned expansion. Lucid has been majority-owned since April 2019 by the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia
The luxury cars undergo quality control checks and any imperfections will be repaired. Lucid mainly developed battery technology in its early years. Production of its first car started in 2014. Electric motors are manufactured separately and assembled into the car
Lucid Air can be optioned as a dual-motor, all-wheel-drive powertrain producing up to 1,111 horsepower for the Touring and Grand Touring models. It can also be optioned as a single motor with the Pure model. Lucid has large index fund managers as investors, like the Vanguard Group and BlackRock. Factory workers assemble parts step-by-step according to a predetermined procedure. After assembly, cars move through different test processes.
The range of the Dream Edition car is estimated at 520 miles, the longest range in the electric car market.
Rivian’s R1S has a motor for each wheel
Tesla production volume has been much higher than that of Lucid and Rivian. All Tesla cars sold in the US are manufactured there.
