See the electric Lucid Gravity SUV, a Tesla rival that will have 7 seats and more range than any competitor
- EV startup Lucid revealed new details about the Gravity, its SUV launching in 2024.
- The Gravity will have seating options for five, six, or seven passengers.
Lucid Motors gave the world its best glimpse yet at the Gravity, a luxurious electric SUV coming soon that takes aim at the Tesla Model X and BMW iX.
After months of teasing, the California electric-vehicle startup released some images of the SUV and revealed a few key details.
The images show a large, sleek SUV with rounded edges and many of the styling cues of Lucid's first vehicle, the Air sedan. Like the Air, the Gravity will have slim, futuristic light bars spanning its front and rear.
"Gravity builds upon everything we have achieved thus far, driving further advancements of our in-house technology to create a luxury performance SUV like none other," Peter Rawlinson, Lucid's CEO and CTO, said in a press release.
Details are scant as far as specifications go. Lucid claims the Gravity will be a "supercar in disguise." Given that the Air offers up to 1,111 horsepower and blistering zero-to-60 times, that's fully within the realm of possibility.
Lucid also promises that the SUV will have more range than any other EV, except the Air. As a reminder, Lucid's Air is the longest-range EV ever sold in the US with an astonishing 520 miles of EPA-estimated range. Tesla's three row SUV, the Model X, offers up to 351 miles of range.
The Gravity will be Lucid's second model when it goes on sale in 2024. Reservations open in early 2023, the startup says.
Lucid became one of the first new EV startups to actually sell cars to customers when it launched the Air in 2021. But, like other upstarts, it's hit snags as it works to produce vehicles at scale. The firm slashed its 2022 production target twice, citing supply-chain problems.