Clear Pull: 2025 Lucid Gravity SUV Debuts

Competes with: BMW iX, Mercedes-EQ EQS SUV, Rivian R1S, Tesla Model X

Looks like: A pretty river rock smoothed by the centuries — but also kind of like a Toyota Sienna

Powertrains: Projected up to 800 horsepower; electric motors

Hits dealerships: Late 2024

More than three years after first teasing its SUV, Lucid has finally pulled the wraps off the 2025 Gravity, the upcoming companion to the critically acclaimed Air sedan, at the 2023 Los Angeles Auto Show. Details are still sparse, but at least we can finally get a look at the all-electric SUV. We expect it will share much of its electrical architecture with the Air, but with that stubby nose and a greenhouse shaped very much like that of the Toyota Sienna, it also kind of looks like a minivan.

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Inner Gravity

Based on our experience with the Air, we expect the Gravity to boast interior space on par with a minivan, too. Lucid hasn’t shared measurements for each row of seats, but it does say that with the second and third rows folded flat, the electric vehicle has 112 cubic feet of cargo room. The second-row seats will feature fore-and-aft adjustability (and, we expect, a range of other adjustments — at least as options), as well as airplane-style tray tables integrated into the front seatbacks.

Lucid says the Gravity’s dashboard “represents a definitive evolution” of the Air’s user interface. Called the Clearview Cockpit, it features an uninterrupted 34-inch organic light-emitting diode display curving from the driver’s side A-pillar to the passenger side of the center stack, which features another large touchscreen for controlling secondary functions. Below that screen is a glass-lidded center console, which should make a convenient platter onto which to glob ketchup before dipping your fries. (Perhaps one of the over-the-air updates the Gravity is capable of will electrify the glass for sanitation purposes.)

The Electric Bits

The Gravity was expected to share the Air’s fundamental building blocks, but Lucid says it rides on “a brand-new platform developed from the ground up as a sporty SUV.” Targeting a coefficient of drag of just 0.24, the company expects range to be beyond 440 miles.

While it isn’t sharing specifics of the battery pack or the Gravity’s motors yet, the company has said the battery pack is “a little more than half the size of some of our battery-hungry competition.” If it’s referring to the GMC Hummer EV Pickup, which has a 212.7-kilowatt-hour pack, that’s like saying, “We sell half as many hamburgers as McDonald’s”; the Gravity could still have a monstrous battery and the statement would be true. It sounds like the battery pack might still be the same — or at least very similar to — that installed in the Air; half of 212 is 106 and the Air’s pack is 118 kilowatt-hours, which seems comfortably enough within a PR-interpreted “little more than half.”

Boasting that its 900-volt architecture employs the “most power-dense EV motors in production globally,” Lucid says the Gravity will be capable of accelerating from 0-60 mph in less than 3.5 seconds, and that it will charge just as quickly: On a DC fast charger, the company expects its SUV to be able to add 200 miles of range in about 15 minutes. There’s no word on motor output, but if the Gravity uses the motors from the Air, it will be available with one, two or three, with output ranging from 430 horsepower to more than 1,200 hp. “Less than 3.5 seconds” might be an extremely conservative claim.

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Putting the Utility in SUV

In addition to its sports-car acceleration, the Gravity will be able to handle SUV duties. Its optional Zero Gravity air suspension will allow the driver to adjust ride height, or they can just leave it up to the vehicle, as Lucid says it’s capable of adapting automatically. The Gravity also gets a towing capacity of up to 6,000 pounds and can handle a 1,500-pound payload.

Pricing and Release Date

Lucid has about a year to fill in the blanks regarding specifications, as the company says it expects to begin production in late 2024. Pricing will start at less than $80,000, although the inevitable destination fee may push the sticker over. And if the Gravity parallels the Air, buyers will be able to spend a lot more: With destination, the Air’s starting prices range from the single-motor Pure’s $78,900 to the 1,234-hp, triple-motor, 205-mph Sapphire at more than $250,000.

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