Lucid adds even more powerful, even more expensive EV to its lineup

Enlarge / And then there were two: the Lucid Air Grand Touring and the Lucid Air Grand Touring Performance. (credit: Lucid Motors)

On Tuesday, Lucid Motors added a new version of its electric sedan to its lineup. It's called the Lucid Air Grand Touring Performance, and at the not-inconsiderable price of $179,000 it slots above the already superlative-laden $139,000 Lucid Air Grand Touring, offering a lot more power, albeit at the cost of about 13 percent of its range.

Originally founded in 2007 as Atieva-an electric vehicle technology development company-Lucid rebranded and shifted its efforts to creating and selling EVs. We got our first look at one of those in 2017, a curvy sedan with an interesting interior called the Air.

Originally Lucid had hoped to put the Air into production within a couple of years, but this was before investors went EV-mad, and progress stalled for a while until the company secured a billion-dollar investment from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund.

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