Lucid Motors shares new images of Gravity SUV ahead of ‘early 2023’ reservations
Mere hours after sharing details of the final two versions of its Air sedan reaching customers this year, Lucid Motors has spoiled its audience with new details surrounding its upcoming Gravity SUV. Lucid shared the images you’ll see below during its livestream event this morning, as well as details pertaining to reservations, production, and some vehicle design news. Here’s what we’ve learned.
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Just a few hours after sharing details of the Air Touring and Air Pure sedans reaching production and deliveries, Lucid Motors has made good on its promise to grace us with new details of the all-electric Gravity SUV – its second flagship vehicle that has remained mostly shrouded in secrecy since the American automaker first teased it at the end of a video officially unveiling the Air sedan.
All of the (few) updates on “Project Gravity” have pertained to its development progress, mostly involving expansions of the automaker’s AMP-1 facility to make room for SUV assembly lines. However, we haven’t gotten any design updates… or any genuine looks at Gravity for that matter.
We’ve speculated around the potential look of the Gravity based on patent images, but up until today have only seen the dark silhouette of Lucid’s first SUV. An image quite frankly, we’re tired of, so let’s bring on the new pics, shot where else but on the moon of course.
First glimpse at Lucid’s Gravity SUV ahead of 2024 deliveries
According to a press release coinciding with Lucid Motors’ “In the Air and Beyond” event stream this morning, the Gravity SUV will “land” in 2024. Is it just us or are the space references including the EV nomenclature itself brilliantly cheeky? Is there any other competitor out there with ties to space?
Anyways, Lucid says that its Gravity SUV will pick up where the Air sedan left off, promising to deliver luxury, space (no pun intended that time), efficiency, and of course performance. In fact, Lucid Motors is already promising Gravity will deliver more range than any other EV on the market (aside from the Lucid Air). Any EV, not any electric SUV, any other truck or crossover. Any EV. Lucid’s CEO and CTO Peter Rawlinson shared his thoughts on Gravity:
Gravity builds upon everything we have achieved thus far, driving further advancements of our in-house technology to create a luxury performance SUV like none other. Just as Lucid Air redefined the sedan category, so too will Gravity impact the world of luxury SUVs, setting new benchmarks across the board.
The team cites the Lucid Space Concept as a key factor that went in to the design of the SUV’s interior, vowing to serve any lifestyle or need with multiple configurations to seat five, six, or seven adults. If you weren’t hyped up enough already, Lucid’s senior vice president of design Derek Jenkins essentially describes the Gravity SUV as a unicorn with superpowers:
I’m so thrilled with the results we are seeing with Lucid Gravity, sparing no opportunity to build on everything we learned with Lucid Air to create something that warps the vehicle-class continuum. It is both a supercar in disguise and an SUV with flexible passenger and cargo space that seems impossibly big relative to the exterior size of the vehicle. And it does this all with Lucid’s distinctive post-luxury design, inspired by California.
From its descriptions, the Gravity appears to check all the boxes one would look for in the perfect EV (if you have the money), but a lot of other key tidbits of information need to be learned before anyone starts floating out of their chairs and into the cockpit of this “supercar in disguise.” Unfortunately, that’s about all for today though.
Lucid says it will share more information about the full Gravity lineup in early 2023 when reservations begin. To us, early 2023 could mean the first week of January at CES, or maybe it’s February, we’re not sure at this point.
Deliveries are expected to begin in the US and Canada in 2024. Availability and timing for other markets will again be announced at a later date. You can check out Lucid Motors livestream event including the Gravity SUV news by clicking here.
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In a move that helps the brand duck protectionist anti-Chinese tariffs, Volvo Cars has switched production of its award-winning EX30 models destined for US roads from its Zhangjiakou plant in China to the Ghent facility in Belgium.
Volvo EX30 production began in the company’s Ghent factory back in April, but those first cars were earmarked for the Swedish domestic and European export markets, but that move wasn’t primarily motivated by avoiding tariffs. As Electrive reports, the company seemed happy enough to continue importing its small electric crossover from China and accepting the new 28.8% tariffs (up from 10%), but the wait times to get the vehicles shipped in from China was imply too long.
In 2024, Swedish and German buyers had to wait up to eight months for their EX30 in some cases, according to Volvo Cars’ European boss, Arek Nowinski, per Automotive News. Once production in Ghent is fully up to speed, however, wait times should be cut to about 90 days. Those wait times, and the price hike associated with the tariffs, have hurt sales of the originally Chinese-made Volvo EV. In 2024, for example, the EX30 ranked third in European EV sales, but slipped out of the top 10 first half of 2025.
“The car is now being built in Europe, which means faster delivery times,” Volvo Cars CEO Hakan Samuelsson to Automotive News. “We should return to the sales and market share figures for the EX30 that we had before the introduction of tariffs.”
Coming to Staying in America
The EX30’s switch to Ghent is good news for American fans of the compact, lickety-quick Volvo EV. Now that it’s no longer exclusively made in China, Volvo has decided to give it a stay of execution as it revamps its US product lineup to better align with market trends (read: SUVs) and the changing political landscape (read: tariffs and inflation).
The reason? The Made in China version of the EX30 would virtually unsellable in the US due to the implementation of 147% tariffs on vehicles imported from China. Vehicles imported from Europe, meanwhile, carry just 15% tariffs, keeping the EX30 in a competitive price bracket.
Expect to see both Ghent and South Carolina play an increasingly large role in Volvo’s US product mix – at least for the next three-odd years.
SOURCE | IMAGES: Volvo Cars, Automotive News, via Electrive.
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New filings have revealed that BYD is about to release a ridiculous 3,000 hp electric supercar: the Yangwang U9 Track Edition.
BYD already shocked the world when it launched the Yangwang U9, its first all-electric supercar.
It featured four advanced electric motors with a combined power of nearly 1,300 horsepower. The U9 can accelerate from 0 to 62 mph (0 to 100 km/h) in just 2.36 seconds.
With a motor at each wheel and a highly advanced electric-air suspension, the U9 can turn on itself and even jump over potholes.
But that was only the beginning.
Based on a new filing with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), BYD is preparing to launch a new ‘Track Edition’ of the Yangwang U9:
When an automaker releases a “track” version of a car, it typically primarily features body changes for better aerodynamic performance, adding downforce, and it will also often feature bigger brakes.
The Yangwang U9 ‘Track Edition’ appears to feature all that… and much more.
The filing reveals that BYD updated the motors at each wheel to a new 555 kW motor. That’s a higher-performing motor than in most performance electric vehicles. The U9 Track Edition has four of them for a total of 2,220 kW (3,019 hp).
I would have thought that this was a typo if it wasn’t for the insane electric vehicles coming out of China these days.
Here are a few pictures from the MIIT filing:
There are a lot of performance specs that are not included in the MIIT filing. Therefore, it will be interesting to see when the vehicle is fully unveiled and BYD reveals what kind of performance it can achieve with 3,000 hp packed in 4 electric motors.
Here are a few other features mentioned in the filing:
Standard features:
- 20-inch wheels with 325/35 R20 tyres
- Carbon-fibre roof
- Large fixed carbon-fibre rear wing
- Rear diffuser with adjustable blades for aerodynamic optimisation
Optional aerodynamic parts:
- Standard or enhanced carbon-fibre front splitter
- Electric rear wing
Electrek’s Take
How are they going to keep that thing from flying away? Seriously.
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