EV Source just posted another interview with Peter Rawlinson that revealed the production schedule in more detail than we've seen anywhere else:
The highlights of the production timeline:
- Lucid has "many thousands" of deposits on cars (but no breakdown given for which versions of the car)
- they are in the final stages of building out the beta fleet of 80 cars
- these beta cars are still generating information that is being processed by the engineering team . . . while there are few changes afoot at this point that a buyer would readily notice, there are "hundreds" of Engineering Requests in queue to be integrated into production plans by both the Lucid production team and suppliers
- they are currently doing "TTO" (tool tryout) in the Casa Grande factory, whereby production parts are being fed to robots to calibrate and fine tune robotic motion
- the paint shop will be commissioned on November 20, and painted bodies will start coming off the line to be used in the next step, which is . . .
- "RC" (release candidate,
i.e., final production prototype) cars will start building in late November / early December
- "SOP" (start of production of customer cars) will begin in late February / early March 2021