Lucid Motors has begun deliveries of its second model — the Gravity SUV — in Europe, after a three-month delay and despite no official announcement.
One of the first deliveries was shared last week on Reddit by user ‘Polluxboxing,’ who wrote that he picked up a preconfigured Gravity at Lucid‘s Frankfurt Service Center.
“I finally joined the club with what I believe is one of the first Lucid Gravitys in Germany,” he wrote.
The owner said he test drove an Air sedan three weeks before the purchase but found it lacking compared to his BMW 7 Series.
“The Air — while much better than the Model S — felt a little outdated,” he wrote. “We then took a look at the Gravity in the store. I was blown away by the car.”
He then decided to buy a preconfigured unit the same night.
“The salespeople noticed my enthusiasm, so they offered us a back-to-back test ride with the Gravity,” he wrote. “I pulled the trigger on a preconfigured model the same night.”
The beginning of deliveries was not formally announced by the company as of Friday morning.
Orders for the Gravity opened last September at the IAA Auto Show in Munich across its four European markets.
Delay in EU Deliveries
The first handovers come after repeated delays.
At the IAA Auto Show in Munich last September, interim CEO Marc Winterhoff and Europe President Lawrence Hamilton told reporters including EV that the first European deliveries would take place in January 2026.
That timeline was missed without a public announcement.
In late February, a Lucid delivery advisor in Switzerland confirmed that deliveries were starting on the continent.
The company currently offers its two models in the German market.
The Lucid Air sedan is priced from €85,900 ($97,900) for the entry-level Pure trim, rising to €250,000 ($285,000) for the fully equipped Sapphire variant.
The high-performance edition was recently named the 2026 German Performance Car of the Year at the German Car of the Year Awards.
The Gravity SUV is priced from €99,900 ($113,900) for the Touring trim and €116,900 ($133,300) for the Grand Touring in Germany.
A fully loaded Grand Touring reaches €151,550 ($172,800).
Lease pricing was announced in December, with monthly payments starting at €999 ($1,140) for the Touring and €1,169 ($1,330) for the Grand Touring.
Equipped with 20- or 21-inch wheels, the SUV delivers up to 748 kilometers of WLTP range.
In a nod to Germany’s unrestricted autobahn speeds, the Reddit user wrote that the 22-inch aero wheel covers “had to go immediately as they are only for speeds up to 193 km/h and we do things differently here in Germany.”
He also noted that he chose the license plate number 839 as a reference to the SUV’s 839 horsepower output.
German Market
Lucid registered 17 vehicles in Germany in March, according to data from the country’s Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA).
According to figures published a few days after by data tracking platform EU-EVs, 12 of those units were Gravity SUVs, with the remaining five representing the Air sedan — for which demand continues to weaken in Europe.
The company had listed 11 units in January and seven in February, bringing its first-quarter total to 35 vehicles — all while the broader market posted strong growth.
A total of 86,120 battery electric vehicles were registered in Germany last month, a new monthly record and a 24.2% increase from a year ago.
The rebound comes as Germany’s reinstated EV purchase incentive begins to filter through the market.
The federal scheme, worth around €3 billion through 2029, offers private buyers between €3,000 and €6,000 depending on household income and family size.
The online application portal is expected to go live in May.
BYD registered 3,528 vehicles in Germany in March, a 327% year-over-year increase. Tesla quadrupled to 9,252 units.
Lucid sold a total of 183 vehicles in Germany throughout 2025, a 53% drop from the 392 units recorded in 2024.
Business Model
To counter weaker-than-expected demand, Lucid is shifting its business model in Germany from a direct-to-consumer approach to a hybrid distribution model — that combines its company-owned showrooms with local dealership partnerships.
The company signed the German dealer group Wackenhut as its first European retail partner, as exclusively reported by EV in February.
The family-owned mobility group, headquartered in Nagold in Baden-Württemberg, represents Mercedes-Benz, Mercedes-AMG, Aston Martin, Smart and Škoda across multiple locations.
Wackenhut began selling and servicing Lucid vehicles from its Baden-Baden facility on March 30, with Stuttgart to follow this summer.
Winterhoff confirmed during the fourth-quarter earnings call that Lucid was in advanced discussions with more than 10 additional dealer groups and importer candidates across Europe.
Hamilton had told Automobilwoche last September that the company was targeting 12 to 15 German cities as an initial step — with plans to eventually reach 50 to 60 locations through a shop-in-shop format.
Lucid currently operates company-owned showrooms in Munich, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt and Hamburg.
Sales in Europe
Lucid registered 54 vehicles across Europe in the first quarter of 2026, data compiled by EV shows.
Registrations include test drive, showroom, and press vehicles and do not correspond directly to customer deliveries.
Lucid plans to expand from four to as many as 12 European markets by the end of this year.
Belgium is expected this summer, followed by Denmark, France, the UK, Italy and Spain — relying exclusively on local dealer partnerships.
However, the company recently confirmed the UK entry has been pushed to 2027, when it plans to launch with the Cosmos mid-size SUV instead.
CFO Taoufiq Boussaid acknowledged that Lucid‘s current models are oversized for European buyers.
“There’s not a tremendous growth that we’re attributing to that region, which will change with the midsize,” he said.
The company sold approximately 319 vehicles across Europe in 2025, a 32% decline from 470 in 2024.
The United States generated 84.4% of Lucid’s full-year revenue, with European sales across four countries contributing less than 3%.
