Lucid Motors opened a new location in San Jose, California, expanding its retail and service footprint in the United States.
The 92,500-square-foot site opened on Saturdat at 250 Stockton Avenue will handle sales, service, and vehicle deliveries.
Interim Chief Executive Officer Marc Winterhoff attended the opening alongside other executives of the luxury brand and San José’s Mayor Matt Mahan.
Planning documents filed in February 2024 show Lucid proposed three main operations for the facility and its adjacent parking area: new and used vehicle sales, leasing and trade-ins; customer deliveries; and vehicle service and repair.
“Thanks for rolling into downtown San José Lucid Motors!” Mayor Matt Mahan wrote on LinkedIn. “Best of its league, we’re excited to have you on our block.”
Customers who attended the opening described the new site as significantly larger than Lucid’s existing service center in Millbrae, located about 35 miles away.
“This service center is 2x the size of Millbrae and will greatly alleviate service capacity issues for Lucid,” the X user and Lucid owner ArtemR wrote.
The company also operates a showroom in San Jose’s Westfield Valley Fair mall and now counts 64 Studios and Service Centers globally.
The luxury brand aims to produce between 18,000 and 20,000 EVs this year — slightly down from the 20,000 units initially estimated.
Although the interim CEO has recently said that the internal goal is still at 20,000 vehicles, Lucid needs to sharply ramp up production capacity by the year-end.
The California-based EV maker has recently started hiring new staff for the second production shift at its Casa Grande, Arizona, facility.
Separately, Lucid said on Saturday it began deliveries of its three-row Gravity SUV in Canada, about a month after launching the model in Europe.
The Gravity, Lucid second production vehicle after the Air sedan, is built at its factory in Arizona and starts at C$134,500 ($96,100), according to the company’s website.
