A timely article in the AZ paper this morning:
www.azcentral.com
"Buoyed by the successful launch of its high-end electric cars and emboldened by industry awards, Lucid Motors' Arizona employee count is growing and the company is seeking more help from the state in workforce training and other areas.
Hiring is proceeding as planned, and the company said it is pleased with the quality of workers here.
“More than 2,000 people are now employed by Lucid in Arizona,” Mike Boike, Lucid’s senior director of manufacturing, told The Arizona Republic. The bulk of those jobs are at the company's expanding factory near Interstate 8. “We continue to ramp up production in Casa Grande and will increase hiring.”
That employment number is more than double the approximately 700 workers who were at the plant
when the first cars rolled off the line in late September.
The company has two manufacturing complexes there, one producing electric power trains and the other assembling the Lucid Air, which
was anointed as "car of year" by MotorTrend right around the time the first vehicles were delivered to customers last fall. Over the next year or two, the Silicon Valley-based corporation will start delivering other models.
Boike said Lucid has faced some supply chain challenges, without elaborating, but he said the company is managing these issues and continues to focus on quality assurance and customer satisfaction. The Casa Grande manufacturing facilities are operating seven days a week to produce the Air as Lucid constructs in another factory on the site.
Lucid also has a warehouse in Tempe, a showroom at Scottsdale Fashion Square and other facilities including service centers in the state. Open positions are on the careers page at lucidmotors.com."