Lucid Motors’ Gravity SUV nabs 450-mile EPA range estimate
The first Lucid Motors Gravity SUV just rolled off the company’s production line last week, and now it has an official EPA range estimate of 450 miles.
That’s a tick higher than the 440-mile estimate Lucid had been citing in the run-up to the official launch and production run of the SUV, which starts at $94,900. (A cheaper $79,900 version is set to go into production in late 2025.)
Lucid’s CEO Peter Rawlinson boasted in a post on Linkedin that the Gravity offers “the performance of a sports car with supreme comfort, and 450 miles of range using half of earth’s precious resources compared to some competitors.”
Lucid’s focus on advanced engineering has helped it unlock serious range, both in its Air sedan and now in the Gravity SUV. The top-performing Air can last as long as around 512 miles on a full battery, according to its EPA estimate. Tesla’s longest-range EV is its Model S sedan, which tops out at around 402 miles. (Its direct competitor to the Gravity, the Model X SUV, has a max of 329 miles).
But Lucid has struggled to make these technological achievements resonate with a broad customer base. Lucid once hoped to have built and sold as many as 90,000 Airs by this point in time. It is likely to finish 2024 at around a tenth of that figure. The Gravity is a chance for the company to change that trajectory in North America, where sedans are passé and SUVs dominate the roads.
