Genuine question: why are you on this forum? You seem to have made up your mind that you don't like the company or their cars. It's fairly unpleasant to see your persistent negative posts on every thread.
Lucid's Future Amidst The Middle East Conflict
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I'm sure it sucks, but I wouldn't use an enthusiast forum as an outlet for my frustrations.
Particularly one where an arbitrator ruled in favor of the company. But he now has two choices. He can argue his case in a court of law or air his grievances in the court of public opinion. He's obviously chosen to do the later.
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Every heard the saying guys will do anything except go to therapy?
Yeah.
Why are you?
If arbitrator ruled in Lucids favor, maybe it wasn’t a lemon per law. If it was clearly a lemon , why would they rule against?
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Bottom line: it's not that Saudi Arabia passed over better-suited Lucid technology — it's that Ceer and Lucid were designed from the outset for different market tiers, different partner ecosystems, and different corporate structures (public vs. private), so licensing Lucid's premium EV platform into a mass-market brand likely never made strategic or legal sense in the first place.
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Arbitrators and courts make make bad decisions all the time. That’s what the appeals process is for. They are not infallible.
Don't know. And we obviously don't know how the facts or law are laid out in this case. We've only heard one take and have no way of determining if it's accurate or objective. What's clear is that you'll never get a satisfactory result by making your case here.
I've enjoyed my Air (except for the key fob) and am looking forward to my Gravity. Reading posts here helped me decide to get a Gravity and I like to be helpful where possible when I see other owners posting about issues or questions. I'm also excited for their future software updates and vehicles, and enjoy engaging with others that are interested as well.
It’s this. Lucid did a good job presenting grey areas that an arbitrator wasn’t suited to settle case law on. So it is going to court in my home state, unless they settle first. I have a consumer law attorney on it.
The likelihood of the company settling a dispute is lessened each time you disparage them. Your attorney should be advising you of this. If you have a pending lawsuit you would be well advised to let the legal proceeding play out in court without commenting on the underlying dispute or issues you may have with the company. Doing otherwise would be reckless.
Well, it is delayed a year, so here we are. I'd guess that the new leadership came in and looked at the company and decided they couldn't have another botched launch. Gotta get this one right.
And frankly, it seems like they have a lot of fixing of other operations to do before Cosmos launch too. If you want a smooth launch, you need service up to speed too. And sales. And marketing. And R&D, testing, software, etc. Not just production.
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Can we please stay on topic?
This is not to everyone, obviously. But the folks steering this elsewhere, you know who you are.
Let’s stick with the thread theme, please.
This is not to everyone, obviously. But the folks steering this elsewhere, you know who you are.
Let’s stick with the thread theme, please.
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Totally. Those of us who have been here for a while wanted Lucid to do exactly this for Gravity launch. And we know how that went.
New leadership seems determined to wait this time until they are truly ready. I just hope they don’t get pressured again to release SOMETHING at any cost, as they clearly were twice before.
Fingers crossed.
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I think Napoli is playing it right with waiting until Lucid's truly ready for launch. I do think the official launch is soon because the last investor's call mentioned that AMP-2 is done with construction and now in the industrialization phase.
It also does sound like Saudi Arabia is serious about maintaining Lucid as one of the players to help them shift away from oil because I've been noticing a lot of exchange programs (for lack of a better term) occurring within Lucid where they're bringing over their Saudi-based engineers into their US facilities for several months (I think I saw about 6 months based on a few LinkedIn posts from the Saudi engineers)
As for the current events going on now, I'm in no position to make any credible analysis. All I can observe is that the main targets have been on the oil infrastructure. I have not heard of any information indicating that Saudi Arabia's manufacturing side would be a valid target. I can only hope that Saudi Arabia is arranging contingency plans to ensure manufacturing-related goods can make their way in and out of the country.
I'm not concerned about it for Lucid either. That attack was strategic to try and drive oil prices higher, which is about the only leverage they have in the conflict. And about all they're capable of anyway (at least without forcing the Saudis into a major retaliation).
Besides, Cosmos production is still a long way off. This whole situation is likely to be different by then. Probably better, although it is the Middle East so anything can happen at any time. The whole place is always one nuke away from total chaos.
I can’t even imagine trying to run a company or country in KSA right now. So much chaos.
