https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2020/01/14/lucid-motors-tesla-rival-theranos-plant-newark.html Tesla rival Lucid Motors is making its first 80 electric vehicles called the Air at former Theranos plant 2020-01-14 Cromwell Schubarth – TechFlash
[image / Lucid Motors https://media.bizj.us/view/img/11579699/lucid-air*1200xx5184-2907-0-293.jpg Ludcid Motors is making 80 prototypes of its Air electric vehicle at its Newark location ahead of a major unveiling in April in New York and full productio later this year in Arizona video https://youtu.be/D9Pa6bh3GVE Lucid Motors | Journey to Production in 2020 ] Tesla rival Lucid Motors is making its first 80 cars at former Theranos plant in East Bay Ludcid Motors is making 80 prototypes of its Air electric vehicle at its Newark location ahead of a major unveiling in April in New York and full productio later this year in Arizona. Ludcid Motors is making 80 prototypes of its Air electric vehicle at its Newark location ahead of a major unveiling in April in New York and full productio later this year in Arizona. Lucid Motors Inc., Newark, CA Lucid Motors Inc. on Tuesday said it is making the initial 80 prototype models of its first electric vehicle, the Air, ahead of a formal unveiling in New York in April. The Newark company is building the first batch of the cars at a large manufacturing and lab space formerly occupied by failed blood-testing business Theranos Inc. It plans to start making the cars for sale in the fourth quarter of this year at a factory it is building in Casa Grande, Arizona. The prototypes built in the Bay Area will be used for comprehensive testing and validation of key vehicle dynamics, as well as crash testing to confirm numerous simulations that the company has done. Lucid last year cut the cost of reserving an Air from $2,500 to $1,000. It said this week that the first company stores where the cars will be sold are taking shape. It hasn't said yet exactly what the Air will cost or where its stores will be and has yet to detail the overall plan for its sales and service network. The reservation fee is fully refundable. Lucid in the past said it plans to build two versions of its electric vehicle, going head-to-head in the market that Palo Alto-based Tesla Inc. has pioneered. It pegged start the base price at the time at around $60,000, which is expected to top $100,000 with options. That puts the Air roughly in line with Tesla's Model S luxury sedan, which is priced from $80,000 for the base model to more than $100,000 for the performance version with options. "(The stores) will not only give customers a firsthand experience of our vehicles but provide exceptional service once they are on the road," Lucid said in its announcement Tuesday. "This forward momentum will continue with plans for a nationwide Lucid Air tour this summer, exclusive store openings, and the launch of a groundbreaking configurator so you can build your own vehicle to personal preferences." Lucid has raised more than $1 billion in funding, with most of that coming in a huge investment in 2018 from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, that government's sovereign investment arm. The same fund owns a sizable stake in Tesla. Peter Rawlinson, Lucid's CEO and chief technology officer, helped design Tesla's Model S sedan, but left the company in 2012. [© bizjournals.com] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos Theranos was a privately held health technology corporation, initially touted as a breakthrough technology company, but subsequently infamous for its false claims to have devised blood tests that only needed very small amounts of blood ... + https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/lithium-alberta-oilsands-1.5424527 New tech aims to extract lithium for electric car batteries from oilfield waste 2020-01-13 Lithium — a component of electric vehicle batteries — is a growing market ... Mining the metal ... E3 Metals, are also working to develop different extraction methods ... lithium extraction industry is promising ... https://i.cbc.ca/1.5424551.1578887950!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_780/lithium.jpg For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ {brucedp.neocities.org} -- Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
