Elon Musk’s Ex-Chief Engineer Creates a New Car

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Elon Musk's Ex-Chief Engineer Creates A New Car:

Peter Rawlinson has many goals for the Lucid Air. One is that it be hailed as the world's best electric car. "Nobody believes me, but we're about to take it to another level," he says in a pre-Christmas Zoom chat from the 300-year-old Warwickshire, England, farmhouse he calls home when not at Lucid Motors' Silicon Valley headquarters.

It's the same feeling he had a decade ago as chief engineer for Tesla's Model S, the breakthrough all-electric car that took the auto world by storm in 2012. "No one believed me with Model S . . . the hostility to it was shocking. I've found the same with (Air). No one believes it."

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