Lucid Motors

This article is about an electric car company. For the race car company, see Lucidi Motors.

Lucid Motors (formerly known as Atieva)[1] is an electric car company founded in 2007 and based in Menlo Park, California.[2]

Background

Some of Lucid's 300 employees previously worked at Mazda, Tesla[1][3] and other car companies. The company is financed by Tsing, Sumitomo, Venrock, LeEco and others,[3][4] providing $131 million by 2016.[5]

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,[6][7][8] eventually building 20,000 to 130,000 cars per year. The city was a candidate for Tesla's Gigafactory 1 in 2014.[1]

Car

Lucid mainly developed battery technology in the early years, but began making an aluminium prototype car in 2014,[4] to be unveiled in December 2016 and available about 2 years later.[7] It has a 400 hp front motor and a 600 hp rear motor for a combined 900[9]-1,000 hp.[3][10] Parts of the media view Lucid's 2018 production plans as difficult.[9]

Lucid Motors first car appearance in LA Auto Show

Cells

Lucid's car uses the 2170[3] standard for its lithium-ion battery[11] cells.

Lucid supplies cells for the Formula E 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 season,[1] in cooperation with McLaren og Sony. The specification[12] calls for a battery at 250 kg (551 pounds) and 54 kWh energy, and peak power goes up to 250 kW.[13]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Atieva will launch its Tesla competitor by December". Recode. 20 October 2016. Retrieved 21 October 2016. the factory will be built in Casa Grande, which happens to be one of the locations [for] Gigafactory to produce battery packs for Tesla vehicles. That facility ended up in Nevada.. “Arizona is not going to want to lose out a second time”
  2. ↑ http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2016/06/16/project-cosmos-sacramento-electric-automaker.html
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Preview: Lucid Motors Prototype Sedan". Motor Trend. 3 November 2016. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
  4. 1 2 Halvorson, Bengt (27 October 2016). "Tesla Owners, Will Lucid Make Your Next Electric Car?". Car and Driver. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
  5. ↑ Overview
  6. ↑ http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/220478838-story
  7. 1 2 "Lucid Motors Has A 1000HP Tesla Challenger; Now To Find The Cash To Build It". Forbes. 29 November 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
  8. ↑ Ronald J. Hansen and Yvonne Wingett Sanchez (30 November 2016). "Tesla rival Lucid Motors plans Casa Grande plant". azcentral, The Republic. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
  9. 1 2 "That Was Then, This Is Now. Atieva Changes Name To Lucid Motors". Gas 2. Retrieved 8 November 2016. plans to start production in 2018. Since it doesn’t even have a factory yet, that claim is hard to believe.
  10. ↑ http://www.motortrend.com/news/name-change-ev-automaker-atieva-now-lucid-teaser-photos-revealed/
  11. ↑ Cunningham, Wayne (21 October 2016). "Start-up Lucid Motors launches with 300-mile plus premium electric sedan". Roadshow. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
  12. ↑ http://legal.fia.com/web%255Cappeloffre.nsf/E93EA1FEBD58EBA2C1257F7300593D40/$FILE/2016%252003%252011%2520ITT%2520FE%2520battery%2520system%2520(3).pdf?openelement
  13. ↑ "Lucid Will Be the Sole Battery-Pack Supplier for Formula E Racing". Car and Driver. Retrieved 8 November 2016.


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