If you wish to earn a living within the automotive enterprise, particularly as a startup, you want some kind of SUV in your lineup. You do not have to love it, however that is simply the best way it’s. Heck, even Ferrari now affords a $400,000 crossover. So, when Lucid introduced the Gravity SUV, it simply made sense. Besides the design ended up being much more minivan-like than lots of people anticipated. Clearly, nobody may presumably need a luxurious minivan with out sliding doorways that is additionally electrical, proper? Not essentially. Regardless of no matter rumors you might have heard about Lucid’s imminent demise, gross sales had been method up in 2025.
In response to Lucid, whole manufacturing hit 18,378 models final yr, with whole deliveries being 15,841. That is a drop within the bucket in comparison with Tesla, however in contrast to Tesla, Lucid is an precise luxurious model. The least-expensive automobile it at the moment sells, the Air Pure, could also be an unbelievable automotive for the cash, nevertheless it nonetheless begins north of $70,000. Naturally gross sales are going to be decrease, particularly from a a lot newer firm. However except you are a kind of sick freaks we love round right here who obsesses over gross sales knowledge, you could not notice 18,000-unit manufacturing determine marks a 104% enhance in comparison with 2024.
Since Gravity manufacturing started in late December, Lucid’s 2024 numbers did embrace a handful of Gravities, nevertheless it nonetheless solely constructed 9,029 automobiles that yr, whereas delivering 10,241 of them. If Lucid retains that year-over-year progress going, earlier than it, annual gross sales will eclipse the estimated variety of atoms within the recognized universe.
An excellent higher This autumn
Okay, so perhaps it would not be the most effective concept for Lucid to depend on annual manufacturing doubling indefinitely, however perhaps do not dismiss the likelihood for 2026. Lucid says it constructed 8,412 automobiles in This autumn and delivered 5,345, which places that single quarter’s manufacturing inside spitting distance of its earlier yr’s whole. This autumn manufacturing was additionally reportedly 116% greater than Q3 2025 and 248% greater than the 3,386 automobiles it inbuilt This autumn 2024.
That mentioned, This autumn deliveries had been solely 31% greater than the had been in Q3 and a little bit greater than half the overall quantity delivered in all of 2024. So there’s nonetheless room for enchancment, however let’s additionally not faux that the majority CEOs would not strangle their very own mom if it meant they might enhance deliveries by 31% from one quarter to the subsequent. In fact, these CEOs additionally in all probability aren’t courageous sufficient to construct a luxurious electrical minivan, so it is unlikely they’re going to ever see that form of progress.
In fact, naturally, you are all in all probability itching for a model-specific breakdown. Are we speaking a 60/40 cut up between the Gravity and the Air? 70/30? Perhaps even 80/20? Sadly, I can not inform you as a result of Lucid did not embrace that data in its press launch, and a Lucid spokesperson instructed me they do not have a exact breakout. However the rep did verify that the Gravity accounted for almost all of manufacturing in This autumn.
It is simply good to see that mainly constructing a luxurious electrical minivan did not really doom Lucid and ship it into fast chapter. Minivans stay the most effective family-haulers, and as soon as once more, their supremacy can’t be denied.
