- Lucid’s deliveries of the Gravity SUV are within the three-digit vary, on account of provide chain constraints.
- The automaker started manufacturing of the automobile in early December 2024.
- Interim CEO Marc Winterhoff admits Lucid is not “the place it needs to be” with Gravity manufacturing, however says the corporate is working to enhance it within the second half of the yr.
Replace and correction Wednesday 10:15 p.m.: An earlier model of this story, primarily based on S&P World Mobility knowledge cited by Automotive Information, claimed that Lucid offered solely 9 Gravity SUVs via June. This determine is “fully inaccurate,” Lucid officers stated, including “the true quantity is effectively into the three-digit vary.” A modified model of the unique story follows under. InsideEVs regrets the error.
Lucid actually needs the Gravity to be its second. The Air sedan? It is fairly, it is quick and it will get a hell of lots of vary. It is also a sedan—an costly one at that—which is not precisely the best-selling kind issue automobile as of late. To repair that, Lucid determined it was going to faucet into America’s insatiable urge for food for SUVs, and pitched the Gravity as its ticket to relevance.
Nevertheless, its ramp-up has been slower than anticipated. A Lucid spokesperson stated that gross sales are at the moment “effectively into the three-digit vary.”
“Provide chain constraints have been behind the preliminary points we skilled in scaling up, however now we have since addressed a lot of these constraints and improved manufacturing effectivity through the yr,” Lucid spokesperson Nick Twork stated.
“In overcoming most of those points, we’re additional ramping up Lucid Gravity manufacturing, giving us confidence that we’ll considerably enhance Lucid Gravity manufacturing within the second half of the yr. To place issues in perspective, simply prior to now few weeks, now we have constructed extra Lucid Gravity SUVs than within the first half of the yr,” he stated.
This echoes what Lucid warned about throughout its earnings report for the second quarter: it is “not the place it needs to be” with Gravity manufacturing.
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“I really feel that you will need to acknowledge that we aren’t the place we wish to be with Lucid Gravity manufacturing relative to our goal at this level within the yr,” stated Lucid’s interim CEO, Marc Winterhoff, through the firm’s earnings name. “Nevertheless, our workforce has been working very arduous all yr to deal with bottlenecks in our provide chain and enhance manufacturing effectivity. I’m completely satisfied to say that now we have overcome most of those points and are starting to ramp up Lucid Gravity manufacturing.”
Provide chain bottlenecks, like Chinese language-sourced uncommon earth magnets, have contributed to the manufacturing challenges.
The scenario would not appear to have phased Lucid very a lot. Its unique manufacturing goal for 2025 was 20,000 items. It has since lower that quantity right down to “between” 18,000 and 20,000 items. The Lucid Air, based on S&P, had 4,780 registrations through the first half of 2025, which is a rise of 52% year-over-year. That leaves lots of room for the Gravity to fill if Lucid plans to hit even its revised goal.
Winterhoff’s guess is that Lucid will hit the bottom operating for the second half of the yr. Extra suppliers delivering these magnets for the drive items, extra vans leaving the manufacturing unit and (most significantly) extra Gravities in precise customized driveways.
