- Lucid Motors is gearing up for a busy few years, including launching its Gravity robotaxi with Nuro and Uber, and its upcoming midsize platform.
- Mark Winterhoff, Lucid’s interim CEO, confirmed this InsideEVs That three medium-sized “corpses” are coming.
- One of them will not be a four-door sedan, Winterhoff said. “I don’t want to be in the sedan segment.”
the Clear air It’s one of the most impressive electric cars you can buy in this or any country, packing class-leading range, efficiency and performance into a stylish four-door sedan. In many ways, it feels like the best Model S Tesla has ever made.
But Lucid Motors’ interim CEO, Mark Winterhoff, made it clear that competing with the likes of the BMW 3 Series or Tesla Model 3 would not be within the reach of its upcoming new platform. In a roundtable with reporters at CES 2026, Winterhoff said Lucid’s upcoming midsize platform will produce three “bodies,” but one of them will not be a four-door sedan, as many observers expected.
“I don’t want to be in the sedan segment,” Winterhoff said. “That’s not our focus.”
while Lucid’s mid-sized enterprise platform Often referred to as a competitor to the $50,000 Tesla Model Y, it’s actually a new design that will support many more vehicles. First example, Model Y-fighting crossoverwill be revealed later this year. Winterhof said production would rise in 2027. “That’s for the first carcass, and then two more will come,” he said. At least one will be An off-road focused SUV.
He added: “The first (of these) will be shortly after that, at the latest after a year, and perhaps before that,” meaning early 2028. “The next one will be 18 months later.” Winterhof did not provide any details about this latest version, but said that it means a “bigger change” from previous models, and therefore a longer development time.
This means that if all goes according to plan, Lucid could have a full lineup of products by 2029. But the sedan won’t be among them. Lucid officials at CES pointed to an overall slowdown in sales of the Air sedan, compared to the new car Gravity SUVwhich Winterhoff said now represents “the vast majority of our deliveries.”
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While the Air sedan launched the brand, it was the brainchild of former CEO Peter Rawlinson, himself the chief vehicle engineer for Tesla’s Model S. But even though it was designed to be an even better electric car, it also debuted at a time when the American market — and even more recently the global market — has moved beyond sedans to crossovers and SUVs. while Air sedan sales rise in 2025it has struggled to move at the kind of high volumes that Lucid needs to successfully become mainstream.
The mid-sized vehicles are targeting a range of at least 300 miles, aided by a new internal command unit called the Atlas. It will reportedly start at less than $50,000, and will compete with Rivian R2, BMW EX3, Mercedes-Benz GLC-Class EV And others in this space. Rumors suggest that it could be called “Clear Land”.
While gravity was It had software issues when it was launched last yearWinterhoff said the company is working to resolve these issues quickly and expects to resolve them by the end of this month or “at the latest, the end of March.” Meanwhile, the company this week celebrated a deal with Uber and autonomous technology company Nuro to produce driverless Gravity taxis. Which is already being tested in San Francisco.
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