Lucid Q4 & Full Year 2021 Financials + New Factory in Saudi Arabia
03-04-22, 02:35 PM
#46
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Tesla almost didn’t make it.
Elon will tell you himself that its a miracle they survived to this point.
Tesla had a ton of publicity and Elon is a magnet for attention. Tesla was 1st with this revolutionary technology not just as EV but also with the interior driver interface.
Lucid has none of this. Plus this perfect storm of war, increased gas prices, all types of shortages etc makes production costs skyrocket. Not good for a company that has poor liquidity already.
Elon will tell you himself that its a miracle they survived to this point.
Tesla had a ton of publicity and Elon is a magnet for attention. Tesla was 1st with this revolutionary technology not just as EV but also with the interior driver interface.
Lucid has none of this. Plus this perfect storm of war, increased gas prices, all types of shortages etc makes production costs skyrocket. Not good for a company that has poor liquidity already.
03-04-22, 02:39 PM
#47
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Trying to scale is what almost killed Tesla. What made it worse is they went for too much automation, AND decided to make an SUV with the most complicated doors ever put in a vehicle. Maybe Lucid should have taken this as guidance and went for a more simple car to start with. Lucid has all the tech Tesla has, although some of it doesn't work at all like FSD.
03-04-22, 02:47 PM
#48
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Trying to scale is what almost killed Tesla. What made it worse is they went for too much automation, AND decided to make an SUV with the most complicated doors ever put in a vehicle. Maybe Lucid should have taken this as guidance and went for a more simple car to start with. Lucid has all the tech Tesla has, although some of it doesn't work at all like FSD.
03-04-22, 08:35 PM
#49
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I will not consider any car that I don't like, regardless of how "experienced" they are at making cars. I strongly dislike the EQS, just no way I would ever get one. Would you spend $125,000+ on a car that you hate looking at? This is not an economy "transportation" car purchase.
If I were buying a car for forever then I would be worried about all of that from Lucid, but I lease and its gone in 3 years. If the Lucid experiment was awful, I would just ditch it. Cars are not a permanent thing in my garage. Infotainment, supposedly they now have Carplay, which is all I need. I never even use a car's native infotainment.
Trying to scale is what almost killed Tesla. What made it worse is they went for too much automation, AND decided to make an SUV with the most complicated doors ever put in a vehicle. Maybe Lucid should have taken this as guidance and went for a more simple car to start with. Lucid has all the tech Tesla has, although some of it doesn't work at all like FSD.
03-05-22, 06:39 AM
#50
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i just think getting into an owned or leased lucid is a huge risk. but just like early tesla owners, someone has to go first.
03-05-22, 12:27 PM
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03-05-22, 12:41 PM
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03-05-22, 12:54 PM
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03-05-22, 12:58 PM
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03-05-22, 01:00 PM
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03-05-22, 01:04 PM
#56
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03-05-22, 01:11 PM
#57
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i still can't fathom there's almost $100K difference between the (unavailable) cheapest version to the top 'dream' version:
77,400 air pure
95,000+ air touring
139,000+ air grand touring
169,000 air dream edition
77,400 air pure
95,000+ air touring
139,000+ air grand touring
169,000 air dream edition
03-05-22, 01:13 PM
#58
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There's over a $100k difference between the cheapest version of the S Class and the top version. Thats not that uncommon with high end cars. Range Rovers are the same way, Porsches...some BMWs...
03-05-22, 01:16 PM
#59
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That lineup is something marketing dreamed up (get it) probably will never see half of those.
03-05-22, 01:59 PM
#60
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