American EV maker Lucid Motors in July this yr has said its purpose of manufacturing rivals to the Tesla Mannequin 3 and Mannequin Y, together with right-hand-drive variations of these fashions, and now its CEO Peter Rawlinson has advised Autocar that the corporate’s upcoming will probably be priced from round US$50,000 (RM231,650) to drastically enhance its gross sales volumes.

“We now have to go along with quantity, as a result of that’s what we’re about,” the CEO advised Autocar, saying that the upscale Air and Gravity EVs had been launched first because of the prices concerned in establishing a brand new automotive firm.

Particulars of the upcoming, higher-volume fashions stay but to be confirmed, nevertheless Rawlinson recommended that their arrival to market can be before anticipated. Being high-volume fashions meant to rival the aforementioned Teslas, the Mannequin 3 and Mannequin Y, these mid-sized fashions are to be smaller than the Air sedan and Gravity SUV.

“I’ve formally said mid- to late-decade, and that has been utterly misquoted as the top of the last decade, [as in] 2030. What I imply is ‘not 2025’. It’s a number of years away, nevertheless it’s shut. It takes three and a half years to do a automotive, and we’ve began; and that wasn’t yesterday,” he mentioned.

The model’s upcoming mid-sized mannequin line “goes to be overtly a Tesla competitor” within the high-volume household automotive market towards the Mannequin 3 and Mannequin Y, Rawlinson mentioned.

Lucid can compete “as a result of we’ve acquired probably the most superior know-how, which implies we are able to go farther with much less battery, and the battery is probably the most high-cost merchandise of an electrical automotive,” and by making a automotive capable of obtain a goal battery vary with much less battery capability, that automotive might be made cheaper, he mentioned.

Responding to a query if Lucid would construct automobiles with the megacasting technique as utilized by Tesla, which minimises the variety of particular person elements in a automotive to cut back price and manufacturing instances, Rawlinson mentioned he “would do something that I see as technically useful.”

Manufacturing of right-hand-drive variations – which opens the door to coming into markets akin to Malaysia – is more likely to be in 2025, which is the model’s goal date for coming into the UK market.

“We’ve acquired to do [the Air in right-hand-drive]. To do this might be going to take us 18 months and we’re completely slammed, as a result of I’ve acquired all my primary engineering group doing all of the design and growth for Gravity. So, realistically, it’s two years away,” Rawlinson mentioned of the businesses RHD product plans.

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