Lucid Motors Air is a luxury electric car with a 400-mile range
Step aside, Tesla Model S, there's a new kid in town.
More accurately, there will be a new kid in town in 2018, when Lucid Motors launches the Air, a luxury EV that was unveiled Wednesday at a company event in Fremont, California.
The car, which will cost more than $100,000 at launch, will have supercar-class specs: two motors with a combined 1,000 horsepower and a zero to 60 mph acceleration in 2.5 seconds.
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It will also have some autonomous features, including cameras, radars and Lidar.
Lucid also claims there would be an option with a 130 kWh, 400-mile range battery; for comparison, Tesla's priciest Model S variant, the P100D, boasts a 337-mile range. The standard Air model, however, will have a 100 kWh battery, just like the P100D.
A camouflaged variant of the Air was first shown at the LA auto show in November.
Now, however, we can see what the near-final version of the car will look like: It's a futuristic-looking, large sedan, with thin stripes for head and tail lights.
On the inside, it's all luxury, with two crazy-comfy-looking seats and infotainment gadgets and enormous screens everywhere.
Lucid plans to start producing the car in its new Arizona factory in 2018; the company anticipates to have more than 2,000 full-time employees at the facility by 2022. As for the lithium-ion batteries that will power the car, they will be supplied by Samsung SDI; the two companies announced a partnership in December.
Stan is a Senior Editor at Mashable, where he has worked since 2007. He's got more battery-powered gadgets and band t-shirts than you. He writes about the next groundbreaking thing. Typically, this is a phone, a coin, or a car. His ultimate goal is to know something about everything.
