Type Private Website lucidmotors.com | Headquarters Menlo Park, California Founded 2007 | |
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Industry Motor vehicle manufacturing Key people Peter Rawlinson (CTO)
Derek Jenkins (VP of Design)
Bernard Tse (Atieva Founder)
Sam Weng (Atieva Founder) | ||
Lucid motors aims to rival tesla
Lucid Motors (formerly known as Atieva) is an electric car company founded in 2007 and based in Menlo Park, California.
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Background
Some of Lucid's 300 employees previously worked at Mazda, Tesla and other car companies. The company is financed by Tsing Capital, Sumitomo, Venrock, LeEco, JAFCO, and others, providing $131 million by 2016.
Factory
On November 29, 2016, state and company officials announced a $700 million manufacturing plant will be constructed in Casa Grande, Arizona that will employ up to 2,000 workers by 2022, eventually building 20,000 to 130,000 cars per year. The city was a candidate for Tesla's Gigafactory 1 in 2014.
Cars
Lucid mainly developed battery technology in the early years, but began making an aluminium prototype car in 2014. Originally teased as the "Atieva Atvus"; it was unveiled as the "Lucid Air" in December 2016 and available about 2 years later. It has a 400 hp front motor and a 600 hp rear motor for a combined 900-1,000 hp. Lucid has agreed with Mobileye to use their EyeQ4 chips and 8 cameras for driver assist features. Parts of the media view Lucid's 2018 production plans as difficult.
Batteries
Lucid's car uses the 2170 standard for its lithium-ion battery cells from Samsung SDI.
Lucid will design, develop, manufacture and supply battery packs for the Formula E 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 season, in collaboration with McLaren Applied Technologies and Sony. The formula-E specification calls for a battery weight of 250 kg (551 pounds), 54 kWh energy, and peak power of up to 250 kW.