We got our first ride in the electric Lucid Air sedan
The Lucid Air looks superficially the same as the early prototype we saw in 2017, but much has changed. [credit: Jonathan Gitlin ]
Back in 2017, I got my first face-to-face encounter with a Lucid Air, when the startup electric vehicle-maker brought one of its early prototypes to Washington, DC. Its EV combined distinctive styling with some innovative packaging, with the technical team being led by a CTO who can count being the Tesla Model S' chief engineer among his CV highlights.
Lucid's timeline might have slipped a little from the original plan-investors are much less reticent about putting their money into EV startups than they were in 2017, and then the pandemic happened-but it's on track to begin deliveries of the Air later this year. And on Sunday, I was fortunate enough to go for a ride in one of the company's current prototypes to see how things have changed.
From the outside, the Air looks like little else on the market. It's a smooth shape, with a relatively long hood and a short trunk, accented by the polished aluminum pillars that frame the glasshouse. Superficially it looks much the same as when I first saw it, but many of the details have changed along the way to what may well be a class-leading drag coefficient of just 0.21.
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