Lucid Motors has hired a Tesla supply chain manager as the EV maker strengthens its procurement operations ahead of mid-size vehicle production in Saudi Arabia.
Marco García Camacho joins the Saudi-backed EV maker from Tesla, where he spent one year as Supply Chain Manager focused on seating stamping components sourcing and procurement.
He previously spent over a decade at Continental in supplier quality and category purchasing roles, based in Guadalajara, Mexico.
“After an incredible journey surrounded by talented and inspiring individuals at Tesla, I’m excited to share that I’m starting a new chapter with Lucid Motors,” Camacho wrote.
Camacho will serve under the recently appointed Senior Vice President of Supply Chain, Neil Marsons — who joined Lucid in February, previously serving as Group Chief Procurement Officer at Rolls-Royce.
The hiring comes as Lucid continues to navigate persistent supply chain challenges.
The company faced three consecutive disruptions in 2025 — a magnet shortage, fires at aluminium supplier Novelis, and an industry-wide chip shortage — that slowed the ramp-up of its Gravity SUV.
Interim CEO Marc Winterhoff said at the company’s inaugural Investor Day last month that Lucid is actively reworking its supply chain to build resilience.
“We are rethinking and reworking our supply chain to make sure that we will even more insulated from external shocks,” he stated, adding that 2025 “was probably the worst year for the supply chain.”
Chief Financial Officer Taoufiq Boussaid echoed those concerns at the Bank of America 2026 Automotive Summit, flagging two areas of focus: “the supply chain disruptions which translate into price increases” and situations where the company simply cannot access the materials it needs.
“It’s very difficult in the current environment to say, ‘Okay, what we expect in terms of supply chain disruption?'” Boussaid said. “We simply don’t know what we don’t know.”
Production
Lucid manufactures its first two models — the debut Air sedan and the Gravity SUV — in Casa Grande, Arizona, where its AMP-1 facility is located.
It also assembles semi-knock-down (SKD) kits in the King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC) in Saudi Arabia, near Jeddah.
The facility — also known as AMP-2 — is now being upgraded to accommodate full vehicle production later this year.
Last December, the CFO stated that producing the upcoming mid-size SUV at its Saudi plant would help avoid US tariffs on China-made parts.
Production of the first model under Lucid‘s mid-size platform — the Cosmos mid-size SUV — will begin exclusively in the Saudi plant, as confirmed by management last month.
The interim CEO revealed earlier this year that the project is “on schedule,” a claim that Faisal Sultan echoed a few days later.
Boussaid recently revealed that the company expects the Cosmos model to see a “slow production ramp” in 2027, tempering expectations for the mid-size SUV that management has positioned as its primary catalyst toward profitability.
According to the CFO, the units produced this year will be followed by a “relatively slow ramp in 2027 and then moving towards full capacity in 2028.”
Middle East
Earlier this week, the EV maker also appointed Rainer Lang as Head of Finance for the Middle East.
While Marco García Camacho will work based of Lucid‘s headquarters in Newark, California, Lang will be based in Riyadh.
The company established its Middle East HQ in the Saudi capital in late 2024.
Lucid is present in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Last year, President of the Middle East — and former VP — Faisal Sultan said that the company aims to enter new countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council.
A few months later, Sultan revealed that Lucid would adopt an agency sales model in these upcoming countries, unlike the direct-sales approach it used in its domestic market and first overseas ones.
As of Wednesday, Lucid has not announced plans to expand into additional Middle Eastern markets.
