Lucid Promises Air Will Get Gravity Updates
Expect Lucid’s original model to cherry-pick choice upgrades from its SUV sibling later this year.
The Lucid Gravity is not simply a taller, three-row variant of the brand’s Air sedan. At the first drive event in California, senior vice president of powertrain Emad Dlala explained that for the Gravity platform, “every part number changed.”
It’s a very different beast—as we’ll share in detail in our first drive review later this week—which naturally invites the question: which, if any, updates will then make their way to the Lucid Air?
Dlala recognizes a “we don’t talk about future products” opportunity when he sees it. While the man wouldn’t go into details for fairly obvious reasons, he did confirm that yes, the sedan would benefit from the advancements Lucid has made with Gravity.
He clarified that not all trims would get the same levels of upgrades either: while NVH and efficiency improvements will spread across the sedan lineup, performance upgrades may only come to certain trims.
Reading between the lines, our guess is that it will be the Grand Touring that sees the most technology transfer. That’s the trim the Gravity will initially launch with, and increasing the common parts between the sedan and SUV is simply good business. While we don’t expect the Gravity’s 123-kilowatt-hour battery pack to transfer over due to packaging, the SUV’s electric motors are practically the same dimensions as those in the Air.
Stay tuned for more from our time with the Lucid Gravity throughout the week.
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Kyle began his automotive obsession before he even started school, courtesy of a remote control Porsche and various LEGO sets. He later studied advertising and graphic design at Humber College, which led him to writing about cars (both real and digital). He is now a proud member of the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada (AJAC), where he was the Journalist of the Year runner-up for 2021.
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I´ll stay with the Air. Regarding the Gravity, I´m simply not interested. Not everybody likes SUV´s or crossovers or is willing to buy one no matter what.