Image: Lucid Motors
There is news about the Lucid Air. And if you are now just thinking “about what?”, please bear with me and I will explain.
Lucid Motors is an American automotive company for electric cars founded in 2007. They are based in California and are formerly known as Atieva.
Their recent prototype of a four-door saloon was unveiled in December 2016 and is exactly what we are talking about here:
The Lucid Air
It has an electric front and back motor which deliver, in combination, about 900–1000 horsepower. Now the news about the Lucid Air is, that a (slightly more than) slightly stripped version of it has beaten the Laguna Seca lap time record for production EVs, held by the Jaguar I-Pace. It exceeded the Jag’s time about 7 seconds!
Because the Lucid Air is a prototype, the official record holder still is Jaguar, but…
1) On the track, the Lucid air was driven by their own engineer and the Jaguar I-pace lap was done by a professional racing driver.
2) Even if the Lucid Air was stripped down, 7 seconds seems more time than you would gain by doing so.
3) If you would put a professional racing driver behind the Lucid Air’s wheel, it might be even faster.
So, if we take all those points into account, it is very much possible that a fully stock Lucid Air would be still faster than the Jaguar I-Pace, which means it is only a question of time until Lucid will gain the official EV record at Laguna Seca.
Image: electrek.co
Laguna Seca lap times
Lucid Air 1:41:67
Driver: Lucid Motors Engineer, Car: slightly modified
Tesla Model S P100D 1:47.62
Driver: Lucid Motors Engineer, Car: slightly modified
Official production EV record
Photon Red 2019 Jaguar I-PACE HSE First Edition 1:48:18
Driver: Jag Racing driver, Car: fully stock
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