Kelley Blue Book: The 2023 Lucid Air: It’s powerful and plush, with an unbeatable 516-mile range

by | Apr 18, 2023 | Stock Market

Pros
Unbeatable 516-mile range

Cabin space

Initial build quality

Cons
Yet to stand the test of time

What’s new?
Touring and Pure trims go on sale

The 2023 Lucid Air luxury electric car is spacious, plush, powerful, and capable of traveling for a remarkable 516 miles on a single charge. Pricing starts at $87,400. Captain Kirk’s U.S.S. Enterprise was pretty impressive, right? It had phasers, warp engines, and teleportation devices. Then came Jean-Luc Picard’s Enterprise, and suddenly Kirk’s ship looked like a ’57 Chevy by comparison.

Back here on Earth, the Lucid Air has pulled the same trick on the now 11-year-old Tesla
TSLA,
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Model S. Imagine if we had to buy a computer or a phone today whose tech was more than 10 years old. Relentless progress applies to electric vehicles as much as anything else. And Lucid
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has grabbed a place at the forefront. Ingenious engineering, attention to detail, high build quality, and a finely developed aesthetic sense are just some of the attributes Lucid is waving in the Air.2023 Lucid Air pricing The 2023 Lucid Air starts at $87,400. That’s for the Pure model with rear-wheel drive (RWD). A Grand Touring with the Performance upgrade adds up to almost $180K. And we’re looking at $250K for the super-powerful Sapphire.
Air Pure RWD

$87,400

Air Pure AWD

$92,900

Air Touring

$107,400

Air Grand Touring

$138,000

Air Grand Touring Performance

$179,000

Air Sapphire

$249,000

These are the manufacturer’s suggested retail prices and do not include the $1,650 factory-to-dealer delivery fee (destination charge). Lucid also offers three years of free charging using the Electrify America network. The most obvious rival is the Tesla Model S, from $90K. Mercedes-Benz has two luxury sedans in the game with …

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