00:00This is the Lucid Air.
00:07Lucid is an electric car company that came into the market not all that long ago and
00:12has really changed the game.
00:14The Lucid Air is a luxury sedan, and it comes in a number of trims.
00:17There is the Lucid Air Pure, the Touring, the Grand Touring, and the Sapphire, which
00:22produces 1,200 horsepower and is priced at $250,000.
00:27Lucid really gained traction when Peter Rawlinson, the CEO and Chief Technical Officer, joined
00:33from Tesla, where he had designed the Model S.
00:36From there, he helped to develop the Lucid Air, as well as batteries that are used by
00:42Formula E, which is the all-electric racing arm of Formula One.
00:46Lucid is known for producing sedans that have among the longest ranges of electric cars,
00:51but also deliver a lot of horsepower.
00:54The model that we're driving, the Grand Touring, has a 400-mile range and produces 620 horsepower,
01:00but if you move up to the Grand Touring, that has a 519-mile range and 800 horsepower.
01:06One of the things that's very iconic about Lucid is it is designed and built in the United
01:11States.
01:12They're headquartered in San Francisco, and that is where their cars are all designed,
01:16and then they're built in Arizona.
01:19Because they are California designed and owned, the icon or sort of the mascot of the
01:24Lucid is the California Grizzly, and you can find these Easter eggs throughout the interior
01:29and exterior of the Lucid Air.
01:31Lucid's design approach is really unique.
01:34They think about everything from the ground up.
01:36Chief of Design Derek Jenkins, who came from Mazda, brought a really fresh perspective
01:41to how they approach their interiors.
01:44The wide battery pack underneath the chassis of the Lucid Air creates a really large, spacious cabin.
01:50In fact, the rear seat feels more like a luxury car or a car that might be chauffeur-driven
01:57than one that you might want to drive yourself.
01:59But slide behind the wheel, and you'll definitely want to be in charge.
02:03Everything there is really fresh and unique.
02:06The interior of the Lucid Air is notable for this screen here.
02:10It's a curved single piece of glass, and almost all the function inside the car is here, or
02:16on this other panel here that's called the pilot panel.
02:21The cool thing about this is you can actually move functions between this screen and that screen.
02:28If you decide you don't want to see this screen, or you'd like to access the secret compartment
02:33behind it, all you do is that to get it out of the way.
02:39Now we have this really nice, large compartment back here.
02:42To get it back, just tap there.
02:46On the steering wheel, we have basic controls here, and some toggle controls here on either side.
02:51And we have stocks for windshield wipers and for our gear selector.
02:57Really elegant and easy to use.
02:59One of the iconic things about the Lucid Air is its glass canopy roof.
03:04It's a glass panel that extends from the hood all the way up to the center of the roof line
03:10where there's a structure pillar, and then more glass beyond that to the back window.
03:16Lucid's drive modes are smooth, swift, and sprint, which is maximum power and torque.
03:25And you actually have to click confirm to be able to use that.
03:29With all that power under the hood, Lucid rethought how drive modes work so you can
03:35front load all of that horsepower, all of that torque, all at once just by flooring the accelerator.
03:42The exterior of the Lucid Air is really unique.
03:44It has a really beautiful, elegant, streamlined look to it.
03:49There's a really unique light signature that lights up when you approach the car with your
03:53key fob and sort of gives you a little winky goodbye when you walk away.
03:58By the end of this year, we're going to see the very first three-row SUV from Lucid.
04:03It's also been completely rethought from the ground up for function for families or people
04:09who just really need a large SUV, but still a 400 to 500 mile range on the battery and
04:15a lot of horsepower underfoot.
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