Lucid Group is ready to send a second shipment of its Gravity luxury SUV to Saudi Arabia for final assembly, after sending more than 600 units of the model to the kingdom in the first quarter of the year.
Adrian Price, the company’s recently appointed senior vice president of operations, shared a photo on social media on Tuesday showing over 50 Lucid Gravity vehicles parked outside the company’s manufacturing facility in Casa Grande, Arizona.
“Look at these beauties! Our second shipment of Lucid Gravity SUVs is ready to depart our factory in Arizona for Saudi Arabia!” Price wrote on LinkedIn. “I am excited to see more and more vehicles arriving in more customers’ driveways every day!”
Price, a 26-year Ford veteran who held 12 different roles at the Detroit automaker, took over operations leadership following the departure of Steven David earlier this year.
Lucid assembles partially built vehicles at its AMP-2 facility in King Abdullah Economic City. The carmaker is currently transforming the unit into a full production factory.
As reported earlier this week, the next production batch of Gravity SUVs for the U.S. market is expected to become available in “four to eight weeks” and will include “about 87 units”, according to a company salesperson cited by a pre-order holder on Reddit.
“Gravity is being built in batches. The next batch you can choose from will be available in 4–8 weeks [early to late June],” the user AmyCornyBarrett wrote on Saturday. “Only in black/green and about 87 built in the batch.”
Asked about the vehicle’s ramp-up, interim CEO Marc Winterhoff said on Tuesday at the company’s first quarter earnings call that Lucid a “modest supply chain bottleneck” had affected the launch timeline.
“While we encountered a modest supply chain bottleneck that had an impact on our timeline, the more important point is that we’re taking the time to get it right, not just getting it out,” Winterhoff said.
He added that Lucid now has “line of sight that all the supply chain bottlenecks are being resolved in Q2,” and that the company has “made plans to ensure capability to still produce the number of Lucid Gravity vehicles we initially expect for 2025.”
Winterhoff also revealed that the company “recently delivered the very first Lucid Gravity Dream Edition” adding that “deliveries continue today, and we expect to start ramping further soon” without disclosing further details.
Lucid began preorders for the Grand Touring trim of the Gravity SUV in November, with prices starting just under $95,000 — excluding fees.
The company registered just five Gravity units across the U.S. in April, down from 30 in March, according to U.S. vehicle registration data from Motor Intelligence.
The first pre-production unit was driven in July by then-Chief Executive Officer Peter Rawlinson, who later announced the official production kickoff on December 5.
