Not long-lived?
The American Lucid Motors is ambitiously off the starting blocks, but it does not convince Elon Musk of competitor Tesla. According to Musk, Lucid is short-lived.
Lucid Motors started production this year on the Air, its first and promising model. AutoWeek was recently able to take it on the road in the United States and the Air gave a far from bad first impression. In fact, according to colleague Roy Kleijwegt, the Air drives ‘fabulously well’ and it is already close to the top in terms of feeling for sporty driving. The driving range is a record level, the Air is insanely fast and strong and the finish is not bad for a first model.
All sounds pretty convincing right? Well, Elon Musk apparently thinks not. The CEO of Tesla thinks that Lucid will not make it, it has been discovered Electrek. Freely translated, he says on Twitter that he suspects that Lucid ‘will not live long’. Mud was thrown back and forth before. Musk said earlier this year that Lucid is “heading for bankruptcy.”
No doubt there is some resentment because Lucid CEO Peter Rawlinson was still at the cradle of the Tesla Model S and then switched to Lucid, but there is probably more to it. Lucid has a promising car on paper and the first physical copies are also quite convincing, but now the production and sales numbers are yet to come. After all, money has to be earned back.
Whether that will succeed with the fairly expensive and high-market Lucid Air is still the question. After all, earlier promising manufacturers such as Faraday Future and Rivian have also ended up in heavy weather at the end of the day or even almost completely disappeared into the background. It would be nice if Lucid met a different fate, because the Air is genuinely impressive and Lucid can keep the competition sharp.
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