"Trimble Delivers Lane-Level Precision" to Gravity

[blagar1000]

Can anyone translate this into what we'll actually get out of this? Seems to me like it's about improving the stability and performance of navigation, range estimating, and DreamDrive, rather than substantive new features, although I'm curious about the Infotainment piece. It'll also be interesting to see how quickly existing owners will get this. GM has used Trimble as part of Super Cruise for years.

Trimble Delivers Lane-Level Precision to Lucid Gravity Electric Vehicles

New technology addresses the "urban canyon" problem, enabling centimeter-level accuracy to EV navigation WESTMINSTER, Colo., Jan. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Trimble® today announced that its...

news.trimble.com

Trimble® today announced that its cutting-edge positioning technology will supply crucial data used by the navigation and driver assistance systems in the new Lucid Gravity. By integrating Trimble RTX® and ProPoint Go™ technology, Lucid Gravity becomes the first EV to feature a resilient positioning engine in a system that can enable centimeter-level accuracy even in tunnels, parking garages and dense city centers where standard GPS often fails.

Driving the future of mobility, Trimble's technology works in the background to enhance five key aspects of the Lucid Gravity driver experience:

• Unbroken navigation: By serving as the primary source for location, velocity and heading, the system prevents the "searching for signal" lag often experienced in urban environments.
• Hands-free confidence: High-accuracy geolocation is fed directly into the Hands-Free Driving Assist (HFDA) system, ensuring the vehicle knows its precise spot on the highway.
• Range you can trust: Precise altitude data allows for smarter battery estimation, giving drivers a hyper-accurate reading of remaining mileage based on real-world terrain.
• Next-gen infotainment: Lane-level data unlocks advanced capabilities within mobile apps and the dashboard ecosystem.

Availability
The Trimble positioning solution will be standard on new Lucid Gravity vehicles beginning at the end of January 2026. Existing Lucid Gravity vehicles on the road will receive these capabilities via an over-the-air (OTA) software update, instantly upgrading the vehicle's navigation intelligence.

 

[jered]

Reads like a CES partnership puff piece; just making it clear to Trimble's investors that they had a win with Lucid.

"The Trimble positioning solution will be standard on new Lucid Gravity vehicles beginning at the end of January 2026. Existing Lucid Gravity vehicles on the road will receive these capabilities via an over-the-air (OTA) software update, instantly upgrading the vehicle's navigation intelligence."

The relevant hardware is already present, so this (if anything) is a software update to improve positioning dead-reckoning and noise rejection to feed to the nav and drive assist. I don't think there's anything immediately user visible here -- maybe incremental improvements in nav and range estimation, but this won't be differentiable (to us) from other software improvements in these areas.

 

[eelpout]

So the car has satellite capability for navigation but not for SiriusXM? Cool beans!

 

[jered]

So the car has satellite capability for navigation but not for SiriusXM? Cool beans!

Well, all cars have satellite capability for geolocation via GPS/GNSS! Trimble's GNSS augmentation ("RTX") provides differential data via both satellite and IP networking, so I assume this is coming to the Gravity via the terrestrial mobile link (as with SXM). That's just speculation, though -- maybe they have an all-in-one receiver from Trimble.

This all goes to show how much of traditional car-making is supply chain management and integration, and why you do see so many redundant parts (although fewer than before). Positioning HW&SW from Trimble, maps from HERE, cameras and LIDAR from a variety of vendors, seats from Hyundai, batteries from Panasonic... it's rarely a good business decision to build something yourself that you can source from others.

 

[eelpout]

Well, all cars have satellite capability for geolocation via GPS/GNSS! Trimble's GNSS augmentation ("RTX") provides differential data via both satellite and IP networking, so I assume this is coming to the Gravity via the terrestrial mobile link (as with SXM). That's just speculation, though -- maybe they have an all-in-one receiver from Trimble.

This all goes to show how much of traditional car-making is supply chain management and integration, and why you do see so many redundant parts (although fewer than before). Positioning HW&SW from Trimble, maps from HERE, cameras and LIDAR from a variety of vendors, seats from Hyundai, batteries from Panasonic... it's rarely a good business decision to build something yourself that you can source from others.

well I was making a terrible allusion with the navigation. it's early on the caffeine supply for me.

yeah, I don’t understand the dislike some people have for third-party components. Many have been doing it well for years, so why not use their parts?

now let's talk about where Lucid sourced their seat rail motors from...

 

[tmichael]

Vertical integration is often the most reliable but rarely the least expensive. Hence GM and Ford once sharing engines and GM and Chrysler sharing transmissions. Brembo can spread the cost of developing brakes over multiple manufacturers instead of Lucid developing their own brakes for themselves. It didn't matter as much when the car wasn't controlled by a central software core, but the software defined vehicle is not going away. We're only getting started!

 

[HC_79]

Seems to me like it's about improving the stability and performance of navigation, range estimating, and DreamDrive, rather than substantive new features

This

 

[blagar1000]

This

BUT... on Facebook, in the "Lucid Gravity - Got Boost?" group, someone asked, in response to this news, "More self driving features incoming, maybe?" and Nick Twork responded "Correct!" So...

 

[tarator]

BUT... on Facebook, in the "Lucid Gravity - Got Boost?" group, someone asked, in response to this news, "More self driving features incoming, maybe?" and Nick Twork responded "Correct!" So...

Centimeter-level accuracy will definitely help with the self-driving software.

 

[HC_79]

BUT... on Facebook, in the "Lucid Gravity - Got Boost?" group, someone asked, in response to this news, "More self driving features incoming, maybe?" and Nick Twork responded "Correct!" So...

Yeah, I thought Nicks response was weird so maybe more to the press release than meets the eye. It definitely seemed more tailored to compliment the ADAS and route planning that add anything game changing to DD features.