I got a ride in the $100,000 electric car trying to take on Tesla - here's what it was like
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Last week, I got a ride in the startup's very first prototype, the Lucid Air. The car starts at $52,500, but the luxurious version I got a ride in at Manhattan's Classic Car Club last week will cost over $100,000.
Peter Rawlinson, the chief engineer behind the Model S, is the leading force behind the car as Lucid Motors' CTO. But Rawlinson is flanked by other former Model S engineers as well, like Eric Bach, Tesla's former director of engineering
The car is still a little ways away. Lucid Motors is breaking ground on its manufacturing facility in Casa Grande, Arizona in the second quarter of this year to begin producing the Lucid Air at the end of 2018.
But Lucid Motors is attempting to show it will be a legitimate contender in not just the electric space, but the entire luxury vehicle market. Here's what it was like getting a ride in the Lucid Air:
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