Lucid Motors chief engineer Eric Bach is leaving the company after more than a decade, the company was announced.
Bach, who also served as SVP of Product at Lucid Motors, has been with the company since 2015. He joined Lucid after spending three years as Director of Engineering at Tesla, where he worked alongside former Lucid Motors CEO and CTO Peter Rawlinson. Bach spent more than 10 years at Volkswagen before Tesla.
Lucid’s VP of Engineering, James Hawkins, is no longer with the company after spending 10 years there, TechCrunch has learned. Lucid Motors declined to comment specifically on his departure.
The departures of Bach and Hawkins are part of a broader upheaval announced Wednesday. Lucid Motors Vice President of Quality, Jeri Ford, is also retiring. He will be replaced by Marnie Levergood, who joins the company from Scout Motors.
At the same time, Lucid Motors’ current SVP Powertrain, Emad Dlala, is being promoted to oversee all “Mechanical and Digital.” Dlala was promoted once earlier this year and has been with the company since 2015.
The executive shake-up comes as Lucid enters its ninth month without a permanent CEO following the sudden resignation of Peter Rawlinson in February. Former CEO Marc Winterhoff has served as CEO on an interim basis since then.
The loss of Bach and Ford is the latest in a series of executive departures at Lucid Motors. The company’s head of investor relations, Senior Vice President of Operations, Managing Director for Europe and Vice Presidents of Software Quality and Marketing have all left in the past year.
The changes come at a critical time in Lucid Motors’ history. The company has finally launched its long-awaited luxury SUV, the Gravity, which the company expects will ultimately be more successful than the Air sedan, which has struggled to sell.
Lucid Motors is also working on a midsize vehicle that will cost closer to $50,000 in 2026, though it has said it likely needs to raise more money before that happens. On Wednesday, Lucid Motors announced that its majority owner – Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund – had increased the ceiling of a loan agreement from $750 million to about $2 billion, which provides liquidity to the company until 2027.
This story has been updated with more information about the departures and the amended loan deal announced Wednesday.
