Lucid has opened its first company-owned and operated body and paint repair center in the Middle East, in Riyadh, as the Saudi-backed EV maker builds out after-sales support.
The facility “expands Lucid’s aftersales network and strengthens support for customers in Saudi Arabia,” the company said in a statement on Thursday.
“Expanding our service capabilities in Saudi Arabia is an important step in delivering the quality and ownership experience our customers expect,” said Billy Hayes, Lucid’s Chief Customer Officer.
“Our sales and service teams play a critical role in shaping the Lucid experience, and this facility reinforces our long-term commitment to customers in the Kingdom,” Hayes added.
Lucid’s regional account on X, Lucid Motors Middle East, went further in a post describing the 2,600-square-meter site as the first Lucid body and paint center worldwide.
The center offers vehicle body repair, aluminum body repair, calibration of advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and diagnostics, according to the post.
Lucid-trained technicians will work to the company’s repair standards in dedicated body and paint environments, the statement said.
The company did not disclose the investment involved or its staffing.
The opening comes two months after CEO Silvio Napoli told analysts that Lucid had “under-invested in service” and “responded too slowly to quality issues.”
Larger Than the Jeddah Hub
At about 28,000 square feet, the Riyadh body shop is larger than the 23,000-square-foot studio and service center Lucid opened in Jeddah in August 2024.
Outside the Middle East, Lucid shares body repair information with collision shops through its invitation-only Lucid Approved Body Repair Program.
The statement said the center complements Lucid’s studios and service centers in Riyadh and Jeddah and its mobile service offering.
In Saudi Arabia, the locations page lists studios at I Mall in Riyadh, Jeddah Auto Mall and Shorofat Park in Al Khobar, the first two of which also offer service.
It also lists service centers in Riyadh, including one at the North Industrial Complex, and mobile service hubs in Riyadh, Dammam, Al Khobar and Jeddah.
Lucid opened its first regional studio at Riyadh’s I Mall in October 2022, and added Al Khobar in December 2025 to complete a three-city Saudi network.
It has also installed more than 100 free AC chargers across the Kingdom.
Lucid had four studios and service centers in Saudi Arabia and one in the UAE at June 30, excluding temporary and satellite service centers, according to its quarterly filing.
The UAE entry on the locations page is a single studio at Dubai’s City Walk, opened in May 2024, and the page no longer lists the Abu Dhabi pop-up that opened in July 2025.
Expansion Promises
Faisal Sultan, Lucid’s President of Middle East, said in July 2025 that two more GCC countries would go live in 2026, later saying smaller Gulf markets would probably follow an agency model.
Lucid also planned “at least a further 10” locations in the region in 2026, including in Qatar, AGBI reported in February, citing the company’s fourth-quarter statement.
Lucid had not announced a new GCC market as of Thursday.
In the UAE, Sultan acknowledged in October 2025 that sales “kind of slowed down” after a strong start.
Lucid is moving its UAE business to an indirect sales model, two people familiar with the matter told EV in an August exclusive, a change the company has not announced.
Government Deal
Saudi Arabia generated $98.2 million of Lucid’s revenue in the second quarter, 2.7 times the $35.9 million a year earlier, the filing shows.
The Middle East accounted for 24.2% of second-quarter revenue of $405.3 million, making it Lucid’s second-largest region after the United States.
Most of that revenue comes from the Saudi government, which agreed in 2023 to buy up to 100,000 vehicles over ten years, a firm 50,000 plus an option on another 50,000.
The agreement is with the Government of Saudi Arabia as represented by the Ministry of Finance, and the purchaser has sole discretion over the option, the filing shows.
Net vehicle sales under the agreement reached SAR 361.5 million ($96.4 million) in the second quarter, roughly 98% of Saudi revenue by EV‘s calculation.
In 2025, those sales totaled SAR 540.2 million ($144.1 million), about 89% of the $161.8 million Lucid earned in the Kingdom, according to its annual report.
The government “committed to purchase more than 4,000 vehicles during 2026 and annually through 2032,” then-Chief Financial Officer Taoufiq Boussaid said on the August 4 earnings call.
The second-quarter purchases point to roughly 1,080 vehicles in that quarter alone, according to an EV estimate based on average revenue per vehicle, as Lucid does not break out deliveries by country.
Receivables from the agreement made up 83.6% of Lucid’s total accounts receivable at June 30, up from 68.0% at the end of 2025.
Sultan has also cited rising fleet orders in the Kingdom.
In October 2025, Lucid partnered with PIF-backed Elm on government and corporate fleets in Saudi Arabia, covering reporting, technical inspection, maintenance and logistics.
In July, Lucid’s regional X account deleted a post that celebrated “5,000 vehicles in the Kingdom.”
Factory Upgrade
Lucid has assembled vehicles from semi-knocked-down kits at its AMP-2 plant in King Abdullah Economic City since September 2023.
The plant is being expanded for full vehicle production with a targeted capacity of 150,000 units a year.
“We expect AMP-2 to be ready for production in early 2027, ready to run Midsize production in the second half of the year,” Napoli said on the August call, referring to the platform that will underpin the Cosmos.
Lucid’s long-lived assets in Saudi Arabia rose to $899.1 million at June 30 from $658.6 million at the end of 2025.
Lucid was the first global automaker to join the Saudi Made program, the company said in Thursday’s statement.
The body shop opening follows a separate after-sales push in Europe, where Lucid this week named a service-only partnerin eastern Germany starting in December.
Lucid delivered 3,806 vehicles worldwide in the third quarter, down 6.7% from a year earlier, without a regional split.
As of press time, Lucid shares were trading 0.5% lower in Thursday’s pre-market at $3.87, after closing 6.49% lower on Wednesday at $3.89.
