Emad Dlala, a top executive at electric vehicle maker Lucid Motors, has left the company just months after being promoted to a leadership role, according to TechCrunch.
Dlala’s departure is the first major executive departure since Lucid Motors tapped Silvio Napoli as its new CEO in April. Napoli joined Lucid after spending a career in various leadership positions at escalator and elevator company Schindler Group. He officially started as CEO just last week.
In a statement to TechCrunch, Lucid Motors confirmed Dlala’s departure and said the company is “transforming its organization to accelerate innovation and strengthen execution under CEO Silvio Napoli.”
As part of that transformation, Lucid Motors said Vivek Attaluri, the company’s vice president of vehicle engineering, and Marc Solsona Palomar, its vice president of software, will now report directly to Napoli.
“Emad Dlala has chosen to leave the company to pursue other opportunities. We thank Emad for his many contributions over the years and wish him continued success in his future endeavors. Lucid remains focused on streamlining our organization and processes to fully leverage the strength of our team and we will communicate further actions soon,” the company said in a statement.
Dlala declined to comment.
Dlala has been with Lucid Motors for more than a decade, making him one of the company’s longest serving employees and executives. For the past five years, he has been both vice president of Lucid Motors and senior vice president of the company’s powertrain group.
In November, he took over duties overseeing all of “Mechanical and Digital” at the same time Lucid Motors parted ways with its longtime chief engineer Eric Bach. Bach has since sued Lucid Motors for wrongful termination — though that suit was recently stayed pending arbitration, according to federal court records.
The company has been in flux in the months since. Lucid Motors laid off 12% of its workforce in February, as first reported by TechCrunch. It then ended its search for a new CEO after spending a year trying to replace Peter Rawlinson, who left suddenly in early 2025.
Dlala’s departure comes just months before the launch of Lucid Motors’ first mass-market vehicle built on its mid-size platform, called the Cosmos. This EV is supposed to start under $50,000 and finally give the Saudi-owned company a chance to offer a more affordable, widely adopted car.
This next-generation EV is also now the cornerstone of Lucid’s deal to provide robotaxis to Uber. Lucid Motors has agreed to develop robotaxis with autonomous vehicle company Nuro, starting with its Gravity SUV. The self-driving Gravity is supposed to roll out in San Francisco by the end of this year.
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