{"id":39349,"date":"2023-01-02T00:03:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T05:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=39349"},"modified":"2023-01-02T00:03:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T05:03:48","slug":"lucid-air-pure-deliveries-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=39349","title":{"rendered":"Deliveries Of Entry-Level Lucid Air Pure Are Now Underway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lucid Motors has finally started deliveries of the Air Pure, the cheapest vehicle it currently sells. Although far from ‘cheap’ at $87,400 the Pure significantly undercuts the $106,440 Tesla Model S Dual-Motor.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Air Pure has an impressive 410-mile EPA range. And although it’s not quite as fast as the more expensive Air variants, it’s still a very quick car with a 480 hp output and 4-second 0-60 mph time.<\/p>\n

Air Pure deliveries were announced on Lucid’s Twitter account, along with several pictures of new owners with the company’s CEO Peter Rawlinson. This news comes shortly after European deliveries of the Air Dream Edition<\/a> commenced.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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However, it’s not all positive at Lucid. Production numbers are still below expectations, meanwhile\u00a0the automaker’s stock price continues to dive – in 2022 Lucid shares tanked 83%. Questions are also arising regarding customer demand.<\/p>\n

As the economy begins to decline, will Lucid be able to find enough buyers? It’s a relatively unknown brand, and consumers will have\u00a0concerns over build quality<\/a>\u00a0given its a startup. Furthermore, several recalls have not helped matters.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Tesla<\/a> CEO Elon Musk recently suggested that Lucid would go under.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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It’s no secret that Musk is not a fan of Lucid founder and CEO Peter Rawlinson. Musk previously claimed that Rawlinson,\u00a0a former engineer at Tesla, left the company “before things got tough”.<\/p>\n

Musk also hinted that Rawlinson exaggerated his importance at Tesla. While Rawlinson claims he was once Tesla’s Chief Engineer, Musk has repeatedly denied it.\u00a0 However, this old YouTube video<\/a> from Tesla’s official channel suggests otherwise. There are also several references to Rawlinson as “VP of Engineering” and “Chief Engineer” on Tesla’s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lucid Motors has finally started deliveries of the Air Pure, the cheapest vehicle it currently sells. Although far from ‘cheap’ at $87,400 the Pure significantly undercuts the $106,440 Tesla Model S Dual-Motor.\u00a0 The Air Pure has an impressive 410-mile EPA range. And although it’s not quite as fast as the more expensive Air variants, it’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}