Lucid Motors shows that the long-lasting Lucid Air electric sedan can be faster than a Tesla and discharge power to the grid or home.
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Lucid Motors has revealed that its next Lucid Air electric sedan will recharge at a constant speed of 32 km per minute and will also discharge power into the grid or at home.
Here’s some really juicy facts about Lucid Air, which will be unveiled in the coming weeks and presented as a rival to the Tesla Model S, the benchmark for all long-term electric vehicle manufacturers.
In a new announcement on Thursday (US time), the Saudi-backed electric vehicle launch said Lucid Air would be the “fastest charging electric vehicle ever offered,” thanks to its “highly complicated battery and thermal control system, and Lucid The incredible efficiency of the air powertrain.”
According to the EV start-up, Lucid Air – which last Wednesday, as we noted, will also break the diversity and aerodynamics of industry-leading Tesla, and in July it will arrive with semi-autonomous driving generation – will be for speed at a top speed of three hundred kW, meaning it will be a diversity of 480 km in just 20 minutes.
This impressive charging rate is made imaginable through a 900 V electric architecture (most electric cars are 400 V) and is faster than the 270 kW rate of the Porsche Taycan 800 V (which, although capable of a maximum rate of 350 kW, is limited through software until further notice).
The fastest rate of all Tesla cars is 250 kW, which can be achieved at electric vehicle manufacturer’s V3 superqualifier stations and ultra-fast DC rapid testers, such as those manufactured through Australian giant Tritium and Swiss electrification giant ABB.
“We design each and every facet of Lucid Air and its platform internally to be hyper-efficient, from powertrain to aerodynamics, and have established several new benchmarks through those efforts, adding the most diverse electric vehicle with an estimated EPA diversity of 517 miles,” said Eric Bach, vice president of hardware engineering at Lucid Motors , in a statement.
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Bridie Schmidt is a senior journalist for The Driven, a sister site of Renew Economy. She specializes in writing about new technologies and is very interested in the role that zero-emission transport will have to play in sustainability.
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