Lucid Motors has given the world a taste of its
second prototype, unveiling a tweaked Air during Monterey Car Week in the U.S.
This particular unit has an eye-catching two-tone paint scheme
combining silver elements with a body finished predominantly in dark grey. It
may take you a while to fall in love with the exterior finish but the more we
look at it, the more we like it.
Lucid didn’t use the festivities in Monterey to announce
anything new about the Air and the latest we heard from the company is that it
was pondering a possible sale to Ford. However, it doesn’t appear that the
large automaker is interested in a deal at the moment. In the meantime, the
electric vehicle start-up is continuing to raise funds to make the Air a
production reality and to do so, it needs to get its US$ 700 million factory in
Arizona up and running.
If everything goes to plan, Lucid hopes to begin
construction of the Air when the first US$ 240 million stage of the factory is
complete. Initially, this should support between 8,000 and 10,000 units a year.
In 2022, work on the entire facility should be completed, allowing Lucid to
build about 130,000 vehicles a year.