Lucid Gravity: range, charging, price, release date, and more

By Christian de Looper Updated September 20, 2024

There’s finally another option in the world of electric SUVs. The Lucid Air has long been known as the electric car with the longest range, but Lucid is finally branching out with a bigger option — the Lucid Gravity. It offers a similar design sensibility as the Air, with more room on the inside and pretty great performance.

The Lucid Gravity could well be the go-to electric SUV, at least when it comes to luxury options. Curious to learn more? Here’s everything you need to know.

If you’ve seen the Lucid Air, you have an idea about the overall design of the Lucid Gravity. The car is sleek and stylish, and while it’s not quite as unique-looking as the Air, it’s clearly a premium car overall.

On the front of the Gravity can be found two slim headlights and a swooping hood that arcs across the front. The side profile of the car slopes down toward the back, where you’ll find a rear light bar. In most color options, there’s a two-tone look, which some will love and others won’t.

In some ways, the Gravity looks simply like a taller version of the Air — but again, that’s not a bad thing. The Air wasn’t my personal favorite design of all time, but there’s no denying that it looks sleek.

The interior of the Lucid Gravity is premium too. There’s a nice stitched leather that in most of the images is a saddle brown.

Like in the Lucid Air, there are two displays at the front of the car. There’s one super-wide display that stretches along the front for lights and wipers, instrument monitoring, and mapping, and a secondary display that can be used for climate controls, driving modes, and other settings. This particular dual-display setup is somewhat unique to the Lucid Gravity and Lucid Air, and having driven the Air, I can say it’s relatively intuitive and easy to get used to. The Lucid Air supports Apple CarPlay, and we’d be surprised if the Gravity didn’t — but Lucid hasn’t confirmed CarPlay support just yet.

The Gravity is, of course, more roomy than the Air — to the point where it can offer an option third row of seating, instead of two. There’s also a center console for storage in between the two front seats, and a pair of tables can fold out from the front seats for the second-row passengers. The Gravity will be available in six- or seven-seat configurations. That third row of seating will be able to fold flat to expand cargo space when not in use.

The Lucid Air came in a number of different models, and it’s entirely possible that the Gravity will eventually be available in a multiple trim levels too. Lucid has yet to announce the trim levels for the car, so we can only speculate, but we do know that it’ll come standard with all-wheel drive and two motors.

If the Gravity is like the Air, it could come in a base “Pure” trim, ranging up to the Touring, Grand Touring, Dream Edition, and Sapphire packages. If those trims are planned, it’s unlikely they’ll all be released at launch. However, given the fact that the Air has an option for a third motor, we’re expecting there will eventually be a tri-motor Gravity too.

The Lucid Air is known for its excellent range, and thankfully, that continues with the Lucid Gravity. The Lucid Gravity, according to Lucid, will have a range of more than 440 miles — however, we don’t yet know if that figure is for a base model, high-end model, or perhaps the only launch model. It’s not quite the 500-mile-plus range on offer by the Lucid Air, but it still beats most of the electric SUV competition.

The charging speed will be excellent too. Lucid says that the Gravity will get up to 200 miles of range in 15 minutes via a 350-kilowatt charging station. That means that the Gravity will be one of the fastest-charging cars out there today, and will be able to take full advantage of the faster charging stations.

Not only that, but Lucid has confirmed that the Gravity will ship with the NACS charging port, so it’ll be able to charge at Tesla Superchargers and other charging stations that adopt the newer charging standard. Of course, it’ll also support CCS charging with an adapter. Some online speculation indicated that the vehicle might ship with both NACS and CCS, but not only does that just seem unlikely, it has also seemingly been disproven by photos that Lucid posted on Threads, showing only the NACS port.

The Lucid Gravity doesn’t just offer an excellent range — it’s super quick too. The Gravity will come with dual electric motors, with all-wheel drive being standard, at least at the beginning.

Exact numbers for the performance of the Gravity have yet to be revealed, but it’s likely that the Gravity will offer similar performance to the Lucid Air. That means that it’ll get around 480 horsepower in the base Pure model, 620 horsepower in the Touring trim, and 1,050 horsepower in the Grand Touring trim.

We’ll have to wait and see exactly how well the Lucid Gravity performs in the real world, especially given the fact that while it could offer as much power, it’ll likely be heavier than the Air, and as such may not be quite as quick. But if the Gravity is even close to the Air, it could end up being one of the fastest electric cars out there — the Lucid Air Dream Edition currently sits only behind the Tesla Model S Plaid on the list of fastest production cars.

Don’t expect the Lucid Gravity to save us from a lack of affordable electric SUVs — the Lucid Air starts at $69,900, and the Gravity will be a little more expensive. Lucid has said that the car will have a starting price of “under $80,000,” but we don’t expect it to be much under that. It’ll likely end up being as close to $80,000 as possible, while still technically being under.

Of course, that price will be for the base trim of the car, and higher-end models will certainly cost more, if and when they launch. Just look at the Sapphire edition of the Lucid Air, which had a starting price of around $249,000. It’s hard to imagine that Lucid won’t eventually offer a similarly priced version of the Gravity.

So when will you be able to get your hands on the Lucid Gravity for yourself? Well, you may not have to wait much longer. Lucid has said that the vehicle will be available starting in late 2024, but that’s likely just for orders to open — and deliveries may not start until 2025.