EV maker Lucid Motors announced on Wednesday that it has delivered the first batch of Gravity SUVs to its partner and autonomous driving startup Nuro.
Lucid shares, down 1.5% in early trading, rebounded to trade 4% above their intraday low after the EV maker said on social media it had delivered the first Gravity SUVs to Nuro.
The company has not disclosed the size of the first batch and said only that initial deliveries occurred in September without specifying the date.
“Introducing our Robotaxi Engineering Fleet.,” the EV maker wrote on X. Lucid has delivered the first Uber-exclusive robotaxi engineering vehicle to Nuro for integration with the Nuro Driver.”
The first Robotaxi is planned to roll out in a “major US city” by the end of 2026, with Uber set to announce which city it will be.
The partnership between Lucid, Uber and Nuro was announced in July — a few minutes after the EV maker unveiled plans for a reverse stock split.
Uber has invested “hundreds of millions” of dollars in both companies, including $300 million in Lucid Motors.
The ride-hailing company also purchased 20,000 Gravity SUVs for the fleet — however, Lucid did not disclose how much Uber paid for the units.
Nuro’s investment has also not been disclosed, with Nuro’s President Dave Ferguson only stating that “Uber is investing in Nuro in a standard equity stake.”
The tech company “wouldn’t mind” giving a number, but “there’s more sensitivity in other quarters,” Ferguson said, referring to Uber.
Last month, Nuro announced that it raised $203 million in a new funding round, which included Uber and Nvidia, with the new capital enabling “the scaling of Nuro’s AI-first autonomous technology and the growth of its commercial partnerships.”
A few days after the partnership was unveiled, Nuro said it took them less than two months to install L4 autonomous driving in the first Lucid Robotaxi — a Gravity vehicle used for testing by the company.
Lucid‘s interim CEO Marc Winterhoff said on Tuesday that the company aims to deliver far more Gravity vehicles than the 20,000 units currently committed.
“Twenty thousand [units] is a good number. But at the same time, when you look at the details of the agreement, it’s about over six years. It’s not that big of a number,” Winterhoff noted.
The Newark-based EV maker aims for the number to be “much bigger than that.”
