Lucid’s debut model, the Air sedan, achieved the longest driving range among 24 electric vehicles tested in Norway’s well-known El Prix test.
Known for its harsh winters, the Nordic country leads the world in EV adoption, with fully electric cars making up 95% of all new car sales last year.
The El Prix Winter 2026 test was conducted by the Norwegian Automobile Federation (NAF) and Motor.no.
With temperatures dropping below –30°C (-22ºF), the Lucid Air Grand Touring achieved a range of 520 km (323 miles).
This result represents a 45.8% deviation from its officially advertised range of 960 km (596 miles).
The model outperformed its closest competitor, the Mercedes-Benz CLA, by almost 100 km.
The German automaker’s sedan managed 421 km (261 miles), falling 40.6% short of its claimed WLTP range of 709 km (440 miles).
According to Lucid Motors‘ President of Europe Lawrence Hamilton, “this is the world’s largest real-world EV evaluation.”
In a LinkedIn post this Thursday, the executive noted that the 24 models evaluated “begin the test fully charged and follow a route that includes urban areas, motorways, and rural roads at the end.”
Previous Records
A Summer range test carried out by the same organization last year also ranked the Lucid Air Grand Touring as the EV with the highest range among its competitors.
In that test, it covered 832 km (517 miles) out of the claimed 960 km, a deviation of 13% — the largest discrepancy among the models evaluated at the time.
As first reported by EV last July, the Lucid Air Grand Touring also set a new Guinness World Record for the longest distance driven by an electric vehicle on a single charge, covering 1,205.8 km (749 miles).
The test followed a planned route through Switzerland, Austria, and Germany, starting in St. Moritz at an altitude of 1,856 metres (6,089 feet) and ending in Munich at around 520 metres (1,706 feet).
Lucid Air Grand Touring
The Lucid Air Grand Touring is one of the highest variants of the sedan, just below the fully spec’d Air Sapphire.
The GT trim is priced from NOK 1,309,000 ($136,500). Prices for the entry-level trim begin at NOK 950,000 ($99,000).
Powered by dual electric motors, the Air Grand Touring delivers 611 kW (831 PS) of peak output, accelerating from 0 to 100 km/h in just 3.2 seconds.
The sedan also supports ultra-fast charging, with the ability to add up to 400 kilometers of range in approximately 16 minutes using compatible high-power DC chargers.
Sales in Norway
Despite its success in these tests, demand for Lucid vehicles in Norway, the country with the highest EV adoption rate in the world, remains minimal.
The company failed to sell any Air sedan in the last four months of 2025, according to both data platforms Elbilstatistikk and EU-EVs.
Data from the first 28 days of January shows that one unit of the Lucid Air was sold in Norway.
Lucid made the European debut of its second model — the Gravity SUV — in September, opening orders across its four markets.
The Gravity Grand Touring, its higher-end trim, is priced from NOK 1.249 million ($130,200) in Norway, while the Touring variant begins at NOK 1.049 million ($109,400).
As of Thursday morning, the EV maker has not announced the commencement of deliveries.
Lucid entered the Norwegian market in early 2023, with a showroom in Oslo.
Since then, it has registered a total of 33 vehicles, according to Elbilstatistikk, of which four were parallel imports.
As it prepares to expand to several new markets in the Old Continent, the company is looking for local distributor partnerships, amid a business model switch to increase demand.
