2024 Lucid Gravity EV teased with best-ever SUV aerodynamics

The massive luxurious electrical SUV house is booming, and American startup is coming into the fray with the Lucid Gravity.

Reservations open to North America patrons in early 2023 forward of buyer deliveries in 2024, with Lucid confirming European and Center Japanese deliveries will observe.

There’s no phrase but on an Australian launch for the model, however a report earlier within the yr advised right-hand drive manufacturing was on the playing cards.

The Gravity can be produced alongside the Air at Lucid’s Casa Grande manufacturing unit in Arizona, which is being expanded to accommodate the brand new automobile.

The corporate has launched teasers of the Gravity however hasn’t launched any specs. Nonetheless, it’s already hinting at what the Gravity will provide.

Referring to it as an “extremely high-performance luxurious SUV”, Lucid says it’ll launch early testing updates “that can little doubt present efficiency numbers unprecedented on the earth of SUVs”.

It would provide a “compliant, sports-tuned air suspension”, a brand new characteristic for Lucid. The Air sedan, sarcastically, doesn’t provide air suspension, though Lucid reportedly did contemplate providing it.

Lucid additionally says it’ll provide higher aerodynamics than any SUV on the earth. For that it must beat the drag coefficient of 0.25 claimed by each the Tesla Mannequin X and Mercedes-Benz EQE SUV.

The corporate guarantees the Gravity’s vary will exceed anything available on the market, aside from the corporate’s personal Air.

Beneath the stricter US EPA take a look at cycle, the Air will provide between 660km and 830km of vary relying on the variant.

The Mannequin X, for context, affords a variety of 536km (Plaid) or 560km (commonplace) on each the EPA and WLTP take a look at cycles.

The Air is obtainable in 4 dual-motor all-wheel drive configurations, with a tri-motor Sapphire mannequin becoming a member of the vary in 2023 with over 895kW of energy and a 0-60mph (0-96km/h) time of 1.89 seconds.

Even the bottom Air Pure affords 358kW and a 3.8-second 0-60mph time, with different dual-motor variants producing between 462kW and 783kW.

The Air can be provided with batteries starting from 88kWh to 118kWh.

Anticipate the Air’s 900V electrical structure to hold over to the Gravity, which helps DC fast-charging at as much as 300kW.

The Gravity can be out there in both two- or three-row configurations, with “versatile” seating configurations for 5, six or seven adults.

The teasers present a Gravity with reclining second-row captain’s chairs and a three-seat bench behind them.

Lucid says the Gravity has been designed with room for “as much as seven adults and their cargo”, suggesting boot house – accessible through a “clamshell” rear opening – received’t be as compromised as in some three-row SUVs.

Extra storage can be discovered within the “frunk” — or entrance trunk — whereas Lucid additionally guarantees bi-directional charging and out there towing functionality.

The Gravity will even debut the subsequent era of Lucid’s Glass Cockpit high-resolution shows, which use the Lucid UX interface.

The Gravity follows the Air sedan, and Lucid’s names are ripe for wordplay: the Gravity has “house that pulls you in”, Lucid says, whereas including, “Nothing pulls like Gravity”.

Along with battling the Tesla Mannequin X, the Gravity will face a bevy of electrical luxurious SUVs similar to the brand new Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV, which additionally affords a 3rd row of seating, plus the two-row BMW iX, Audi Q8 e-tron, Polestar 3 and Volvo EX90.

Probably the most reasonably priced Air undercuts the most affordable Mercedes-Benz EQS within the US by round US$15,000 (A$22,000). It’s potential the Gravity may additionally undercut the EQS SUV, which has an nearly an identical opening worth to its lower-riding sibling.