Lucid has spent years of work in the second EV-a luxurious Van-like SUV designed to be the category killer that could get a market share from other luxury EVs and indoor combustion people such as the Rivian R1s, the Cadillac Escalade IQ, the BMW X7 and the Audi Q8.
The goal of the Saudi Saudi company was to create an SUV without a compromise-a high goal that other automakers have tried and failed before. After a first move to EV, which has a starting price of $ 96,550, it is clear that the company did more than focus on luxurious touches. Although there are many.
Clarity gravity can only be excessive mechanical to the best possible. The EV is loaded with technology and upgrades by its predecessor, the clear sedan air. Peter Rawlinson, former CEO of Lucid and CTO, who came out in February, may no longer be in the company, but his fingerprint fingerprints are all above the new clarity.
And while customers can never see technology under the proverbial hood, they will experience it.
The clear gravity has up to 450 miles of EPA-Rated range, zero up to 60 mph under 3.5 seconds and charging times that are up for current EVS. Gravity can charge up to 200 miles in just 11 minutes in DC fast charging, according to the company, thanks to a new impulse mode that utilizes the rear engine as a transformer to enhance the charge.
All this luxury, technology and spaciousness come with a price. The price of the vehicle is between $ 96,550 for the Grand Touring Trim up to $ 99,450 for the issuance of three rows. A “cheaper” $ 81,550 tournament is expected to arrive later this year.
Lucid Gravity’s Technological Bowls
The engineers who worked in gravity got what they learned from Lucid Air Sapphire and Lucid Air to create the company’s new Gen 2 system that supports the SUV. This includes a new battery developed in collaboration with Panasonic (which Lucid says, offers a 40% charging speed improvement), a new drive unit, a new thermal system and a new charging system.
Specifically, engineers created a system that allows Lucid Gravity to charge 225 kW in the 500 Volt architecture (which undermines Tesla V3 chargers).
To do this, engineers used the engine and converter of gravity as a transformer to enhance the charge of 500 Volt to the required battery voltage without adding additional material. They also apply the plug-and-charge for the system, so that the owners do not have to inhibit payment and start charges to some chargers.
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The changes are part of the Tesla North American charging standard that came out last year. The announcement of the standard came at a time when the development of gravity was almost complete.
The up -to -date standard required a significant review of gravity bases when it was about 70% developed in late 2022 and early 2023, according to Emad Dlala, senior PowerTrain Vice President in Lucid.
“When I entered 2015, the 400-volt was a state of art,” Dlala said. “Soon, we realized that we needed to get it at the next level,” he continued, “so we have developed a new technology that allowed charging through a Legacy 500 Volt billing architecture through a future 1000-volt architectural billing.
The team behind Gravity also made a series of material changes to add to redundancy, support its entertainment system, and allow the company to eventually add more automated driving features to the advanced driver aid system.
The company uses Nvidia Orin-X processors to perceive and edit AI video for the advanced driver help system, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8295 for entertainment and Infineon TC397 for vehicle dynamics and body control.
Today, gravity offers what is known as the level of 2 automated driving, a system that automates some from driving, but requires the driver to pay attention. Lucid aims to finally offer level 3 or L3, which usually offers driving with a macaria, eyes to highways in certain conditions.
The upcoming Dream Drive 2 Pro, an adas upgrade, comes soon, according to the company and will offer features such as depicting up to five lanes, curve speed control, lane change, rash alert and automated parking.
Lucid Gravity: Load and Passengers
Gravity was designed to be spacious for passengers and their load. Both engineers and designers achieved this goal. The interior is cave inside with a huge 120 cubic feet of the interior, which Lucid says it is 40% more than the nearest competitor.
It turns out to be an attempt to avoid their fuses have helped get there.
The company wanted to find a way not to use fuses, as they need to have regular access and be replaced when they were blowing and tend to undertake valuable interior space that could be used for cargo and passengers, according to Jean-Philippe Gauthier, the head of the Lucid mechanical software.
Instead, Lucid decided to use diffusers in gravity, which are essentially electronic switches. These diffusers are automatically restored when the car is released, responding faster to shorts in the system, eliminates the possible error of installing a safety with incorrect clothing during replacement and allows the driving box to be buried deeper into the vehicle instead of violating the interior. Districters can also supply unnecessary systems and reduce parasitic losses in the vehicle.
To prove that gravity was more spacious than its competitors, the EV manufacturer was lined up by a Cadillac Escalade IQ, Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV, Rivian R1S and BMW X7 hand in an event in Los Olivos, California. The journalists were challenged to get boxes that paid for gravity (including his spacious gooseberry) and stacked them on the SUV EQS.
It was a impossible project and without another close competitor. A fellow journalist who happens to be 6 feet, 6-inchs was able to lie down on the back of gravity comfortably and close the rear hatch without problems.
Clear gravity on the road
Gravity is high and measures an imposing length of 198.2 inches and 87.2 inches wide. This puts the SUV EV slightly under the suburban chevrolet in size. Still, the vehicle is huge, which helps to enhance the interior.
Usually, full-size SUVs with this type of footprint tend to be boomy inside and giant rollie-pollies on the road, making them unpleasant to hit, especially on the clearance roads.
Not so with clear gravity.
I was driving the gravity from the Nipomo of California on the central coast along Cuyama Street and the Tepusquet Road, a steep, a highly cleared road to Los Olivos for my test movement and was amazingly enjoyable and dare to say fun.
Gravity is heavy (£ 6,000 in the selection of three rows I drove). I felt a little bit of this weight on the road. However, as soon as I place the vehicle in its comfort environment, known as “smooth”, it easily handled the highway cruise and large scans.
I turned it off on the Swift for the Tepusquet Road and the adaptive dampers and air springs ate rough ripples and curves without upsetting the vehicle or taking a storm anywhere. It was so smooth on this road that it unfolds in the fast environment that my passenger was sleeping.
Gravity gets the rear wheel steering wheel when equipped with the dynamic package (which adds about $ 2900 to the base price), which gives you an additional 3 degrees of rear wheel-to-phase and out-of-phase, depending on how fast (or late) you are moving.
This rear wheel increases the flexibility of the vehicle and occupies less than the road as it leads to single lane roads and even a dirt road, which we tried on a local ranch where Lucid created a cross -struggle experience for us.
Even when it was pushed (and sliding) through the dirt, gravity remained extremely flat and comfortable. And yes, you can make a little very light off-road with gravity as it gets 7-inch of soil clearance that can reach up to 9-plus inches of clearing when it gets up.
One of the amazing things I liked most about gravity was the so -called “squircal” steering wheel. Having driven other vehicles with (stupid) scales, the square wheel of the circle makes the gravity feel even more agile and responding to the electrically assisted rack and the pineon steering wheel is adapted to be completely on the spot: where you show the wheel.
Lucid also coordinated a Drive pedal to be so intuitive that I didn’t have to touch the brake once on the streets confined around Los Olivos.
All means, it is clear that after more than four years in development, the seven-passenger All-Electric SUV offers remarkable range and efficiency, agility and functionality for a wealthy buyer looking for a “American” vehicle that is not Tesla.
