Lucid Motors (LCID) shares Q4 financial results, ends 2022 with enough liquidity to reach 2024

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February 23, 2023

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Following a little teaser in early January, Lucid Motors has publicly shared its financial results for Q4 and the full fiscal year 2022 in an investor presentation you can view below. Air EV production was way up to cap off last quarter, leading to revenues over $257 million. As a result of the whole year, Lucid Motors believes it is liquid enough to safely navigate into 2024. Details below.

Lucid Motors continued to bolster its previously struggling EV production processes this past quarter after twice adjusting its projected annual outputs due to supply chain constraints. Q3 saw its most productive quarter to date in which the American automaker delivered 1,398 Air sedans, equating to nearly $200 million in revenue.

At the time, Lucid relayed that Lucid it remained on track to meet its output goal of 6,000 to 7,000 EVs for 2022 as it geared up to begin deliveries of its flagship EV’s third trim – the Air Touring. This past January, Lucid let the public know it capped off Q4 of 2022 by exceeding the high end of its production guidance, producing 7,180 EVs at its high-tech AMP-1 facility in Casa Grande, Arizona.

Those numbers are nowhere near the 20,000 EVs originally anticipated for 2022, or the revised target of 12,000-14,000 units after that, but Lucid’s production growth in Q4 still accounted for nearly half its entire annual output, so it appears to found a stride it looks to continue into 2023 with a much more grounded production guidance.

Lucid Motors looks to carry Q4 momentum into 2023

You can check out the full Q4 and fiscal year 2022 report from Lucid Motors here, but we’ll outline some of the key talking points below. Q4 revenue was $257.7 million for a total of $608.2 million for 2022. That’s up from $195.5 million in Q3. As a result, Lucid states that its $4.9 billion in total liquidity is expected to keep the company afloat into Q1 of 2024 at a minimum.

In total, Lucid delivered 4,369 of the 7,180 Air EVs it produced in 2022, and it’s reporting that it still has over 28,000 reservations to fill – equating to approximately $2.7 billion in additional sales revenue. Those numbers do not include the (up to) 100,000 Air reservations in place from the government of Saudi Arabia. But those deliveries are expected to take place over the course of the next decade. Lucid CEO and CTO Peter Rawlinson spoke to the company’s Q4 and 2022 progress:

Last year was a challenging year for everyone, yet despite the extraordinary supply chain and logistics challenges, the team persevered with an unrelenting focus on delivering what we believe is the best luxury sedan on the market.

Lucid Air has it all — industry-leading range, exceptional driving dynamics, and superior performance all wrapped up in a truly elegant design with a spacious interior cabin. But more importantly, the technological advances of Lucid Air are developed entirely in-house with the singular goal to advance the adoption of EVs around the world for future generations to come. Lucid Air is the quintessential luxury sedan, and our goal in 2023 is to amplify our sales and marketing efforts to get this amazing product into the hands of even more customers around the world.

Looking ahead to 2023, Lucid Motors has shared its production guidance will be between 10,000 and 14,000 units, in which it could achieve the high end of if it can stay on the approximately 3,500 EV pace it hit in Q4 2022.

In its earning release presentation, the American Automaker shared that construction of its AMP-2 facility in Saudi Arabia is underway and will begin operations by assembling Lucid Air sedans pre-manufactured at AMP-1 in the US, but will eventually produce entire EVs. At its peak output, Lucid expects AMP-2 to produce up to 155,000 additional vehicles per year.

It was surprising that there was very little mention of the Gravity SUV – Lucid’s second model that was originally scheduled to begin reservations in “early 2023.” As we’ve discussed before, Lucid’s 3 million square-foot AMP-1 Phase 2 expansion will include assembly lines for Gravity, which is expected to begin production sometime in 2024.

Before then, we should see production of the ultrafast tri motor Air Sapphire this Summer. Lots to reflect on in the documents above but even more to look forward to in 2023. Lucid Motors still has work to do in order to scale production and meet demand, but its Q4 results are certainly a momentum builder. Let’s see if it can hit 2023’s production guidance without an eraser marks.

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Beta Technologies founder completes first test flight in its production-intent eCTOL [Video]

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November 14, 2024

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Beta Technologies founder completes first test flight in its production-intent eCTOL [Video]

All-electric aircraft developer BETA Technologies has shared another important milestone in bringing its first two vessels to market. Most recently, BETA’s founder, CEO, and test pilot Kyle Clark took the production version of its ALIA eCTOL up for its first flight, as seen in the video below.

BETA Technologies is a fully integrated electric aircraft and systems developer based in Vermont. Three years ago, it debuted its first electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, the ALIA–250. That BETA vessel has since been renamed the ALIA VTOL and completed a piloted test flight transitioning mid-air this past April.

In addition to the ALIA VTOL, BETA has also been developing an electric conventional takeoff and landing (eCTOL) plane called the ALIA CTOL. To date, it has flown tens of thousands of test miles en route to evaluation flights for FAA certification. That aircraft is targeting full approval for commercial operations by 2025.

As BETA moves closer to bringing the ALIA CTOL to the public, it has completed its first bonafide production build in South Burlington. Following a Special Airworthiness Certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), BETA has successfully taken its production-ready ALIA CTOL up for a test flight, piloted by its founder and CEO.

Watch BETA’s founder complete a CTOL test flight

BETA Technologies shared details of its first successful production CTOL test flight today alongside the images above and the full video below.

Once the production-intent build of the ALIA CTOL was complete, the FAA inspected the aircraft for safety and compliance before granting BETA a Multipurpose Special Airworthiness Certificate for Experimental Research & Development, Market Survey, and Crew Training, signing-off approval for test flights.

On November 13, BETA CEO, founder, and test pilot Kyle Clark conducted the first test flight of the ALIA CTOL aircraft, which lasted nearly an hour. The test included a conventional runway takeoff before the aircraft climbed to 7,000 feet.

While in the air, Clark tested the aircraft’s handling qualities, stability, control test points, and initial airspeed expansion before completing several approaches ahead of a normal landing. Clark spoke following the successful flight:

This start of our production CX300 flight test campaign is a result of years of hard work and focus on studying customer requirements, hard engineering, manufacturing, production, quality and test. It represents a significant milestone for BETA, and is the beginning of an exciting new phase for the business. With this, we’re one step closer to putting this technology into the hands of our customers.

We learned a lot from this first production build. We weren’t just building an aircraft company, we were building and refining a system to build high quality aircraft efficiently. This first build allowed the team to collect data and insight on manufacturing labor, tooling design, processes, yields and sequences, all of which are being used to refine our production systems.

With its production test flight campaign now underway, BETA says it will continue testing the ALIA CTOL aircraft for the standard 50 hours required before qualifying for a Market Survey and Crew Training certificate. That next certificate will enable BETA to fly outside of Burlington and Plattsburgh and continue training additional pilots on the aircraft.

The company shared it will also continue production of additional aircraft, including ALIA CTOL and ALIA VTOL configurations, the latter of which was recently teased in October. You can view footage of BETA’s CTOL flight below.

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U.S. crude oil rises, trades around $69 per barrel

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November 14, 2024

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U.S. crude oil rises, trades around per barrel

Crude oil futures rose slightly on Thursday, with the U.S. benchmark trading around $69 per barrel, though the market outlook remains bearish.

Global crude supplies are expected to outstrip demand by more than 1 million barrels per day next year led by robust growth in the U.S., according to the International Energy Agency’s monthly market report.

Here are today’s energy prices by 8:07 a.m. ET:

West Texas Intermediate December contract: $68.92 per barrel, up 49 cents, or 0.7%. Year to date, U.S. crude oil is down more than 3%.
Brent January contract: $72.78 per barrel, up 50 cents, or 0.7%. Year to date, the global benchmark is down more than 5%.
RBOB Gasoline December contract: $1.9711 per gallon, up 0.3%. Year to date, gasoline has fallen nearly 6%.
Natural Gas December contract: $2.966 per thousand cubic feet, down 0.6%. Year to date, gas has gained nearly 18%.

UBS slashed its price forecast for global benchmark Brent to $80 per barrel from $87 previously on weakening demand in China, the world’s largest crude importer.

OPEC on Tuesday cut its demand growth forecast for the fourth month in a row earlier this week.

U.S. crude oil has shed about 4% and Brent is down 3.5% since Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential as the dollar has surged. A stronger U.S. dollar can depress oil demand among buyers that hold other currencies.

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Loren McDonald stops by Quick Charge to discuss EV charging, Paren, and more

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November 14, 2024

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Loren McDonald stops by Quick Charge to discuss EV charging, Paren, and more

Leading electric vehicle analyst, author, and industry thought leaders Loren McDonald and Bill Ferro stop by Quick Charge to discuss EV Adoption’s acquisition by Paren, the “crisis” of EV charging reliability, and the real state of the EV market.

Depending on who you listen, EVs are either driving brands to record growth and are about cross that critical 10% of the overall market nationwide, or the future is bleak, the market is down, and EVs just aren’t selling. What’s really going on? Loren and Bill (probably) have some answers.

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