Premium EV maker Lucid Motors delivered the first units of its second model — an SUV which can fit up to 7 people named Gravity — in the final days of 2024.
However, the first units were handed over to ‘some employees, family, and friends.’
At the time, Peter Rawlinson — then CEO and CTO, now serving as Strategic Technical Advisor to the Chairman of the Board — also took delivery of his SUV in December.
Marc Winterhoff, the interim CEO, announced in late March that the company would start customer deliveries in the U.S. of its Gravity model “by the end of April.”
“And by the end of April, we will resume customer deliveries of the Gravity,” the EV maker’s interim CEO said, referring to the first customer units.
In February, the California-based carmaker started sending out emails to selected Gravity reservation holders of the Grand Touring trim announcing they could switch to a limited, more powerful variant: the Lucid Gravity Dream Edition.
The luxurious trim costs $139,900 and comes fully loaded and with 1070 horsepower. According to an email seen by EV, the company wrote: “We invite you to join an elite group of people who have the opportunity to own a Special Edition Lucid Gravity,”
“The Lucid Gravity Dream Edition is an even more distinctive, limited-edition, fully loaded Lucid Gravity featuring additional horsepower, premium accessories, and refined details. This opportunity is available by invitation only and for a limited time,” Lucid added.
A Lucid Air owner and Reddit user said on the platform that the company invited him to become the first owner of Gravity’s Dream Edition variant.
The first unit will be delivered at the Scottsdale showroom, 50 miles away from Lucid’s EV manufacturing plant in Casa Grande.
The Reddit user said the store manager of Lucid’s showroom in Scottsdale called him asking if he would be “interested in taking delivery of the first Dream Edition, with the caveat that the CEO would be attending, there would be a ribbon cutting ceremony, and it will be filmed.”
“They want to do it before the end of the month!” he added before noting that the delivery will take place later this Wednesday, on April 30.
The Reddit user said “there is a lot of pressure being applied to make this delivery happen” adding the company refused to deliver it in early May.
“I had to take off work and stuff because they REALLY need it to happen before 5/1. I asked if we could do it Saturday 5/3 but they said no,” he wrote.
Orders for the Grand Touring trim opened last November, with prices starting just under $95,000, excluding a $1,725 destination and document fees.
For now, U.S. customers can only order that trim and the company has not yet announced when orders will open for the more affordable Gravity Touring trim, which will start at $79,900.
In Saudi Arabia, the EV maker opened orders for the entry-level trim last month with prices starting at SAR 416,645 ($111,060), according to Lucid’s Saudi website.
Those prices exclude a documentation and registration fee of SAR 2,500 and 15% value-added tax, which adds more than SAR 50,000 to the base price. Production of the cheaper trim is planned to start in late 2025.
European deliveries of the SUV are planned to begin in early 2026.
