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Marc interviewed on Fox

Winterhoff is no Rawlinson. Not his fault. Not gonna beat the dead horse of lack of enthusiasm, yada yada.
I do like how he graciously answered the Tesla question without poking any bears.
Also appreciate his honesty when asked a question to which he didn't have the answer.
Pet peeve of mine: when people don't have the answer to your question and then start telling you stuff you already know.

Good exposure for the Lucid Gravity!
 
Same, very calm and collected and credible. The news media will be crying at the lack of clickbait sound bites that they used to be able to pull out of context from Peter....
 
thyname said:
I watched the interview in full. Thanks for posting it.

I think Marc did very well. Please keep in mind English is not his first language
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Good point about English not being his first language. Could affect comfort level and willingness to elaborate. Add that to being in an interim role. Possibly explains why he didn't elaborate much on his answers.

Also, it could just be the difference in people; Marc vs. Peter. Peter could get a little too chatty during interviews and take forever to even answering a question. Marc was more concise. Not a bad thing.
 
Be lenient on the guy, he kind of got thrown into the thick of it and has to hit the ground running. I think he did well given he’s just taken the reigns.

Anyone remember the Tim Cook days? God, he was boring and could put anyone to sleep when he first took over from Steve. He’s certainly improved over the years.
 
I actually thought he was excellent, especially having been thrown into this so recently.
 
Well spoken and thoughtful. His passions are in operations as you would expect as COO. That comes through with his off the cuff knowledge in those areas.

The engineer in me mourns the loss of outright enthusiasm and focus on engineering, but the transition to the next stage in the public eye for scale expects enthusiasm in operations. I personally hope he sticks around as CEO. Very knowledgeable and certainly cares about the product.
 
Rogue said:
The engineer in me mourns the loss of outright enthusiasm and focus on engineering, but the transition to the next stage in the public eye for scale expects enthusiasm in operations. I personally hope he sticks around as CEO. Very knowledgeable and certainly cares about the product.
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If people such as Eric Bach, Emad Dlala, David Lickfold, and Derek Jenkins stay with Lucid post-Rawlinson, it may be an encouraging sign that top-notch engineering and design will remain the core of Lucid's mission.

If any of these guys start heading for the door, I'd start getting very worried.
 
tonybot said:
I thought he did well too. Interesting stat he shared - that 75% of all orders are not current Lucid owners. That is exciting news!
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Interesting also that 50% of orders (including Airs?) are coming from people moving over from Tesla.
 
He represented Lucid very well. Too bad the interviewer did not ask more questions about Gravity. I am a bit surprised that only 50% of the Gravity orders are from Tesla owners, but it is encouraging that 75% of the orders are from non-Lucid owners. It would have been good if he had cited the percentage of domestically sourced content in the Gravity.
 
victoryroad said:
I am a bit surprised that only 50% of the Gravity orders are from Tesla owners . . . .
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This was unclear. His earlier 75% figure was specific to Gravity orders. However, when he later mentioned 50% of orders from Tesla owners it was in a more general discussion about what's happening with Tesla, and he said "50% of all of the orders that we have are from former Tesla owners" (6:40-47 in the video). I took it to mean he was referring to orders for both Airs and Gravities.

He also said orders were coming from "former" Tesla owners instead of current Tesla owners, so it was not clear whether he meant people who are coming to Lucid directly from Tesla or people who have owned a Tesla at any time in the past.

It was a bit of a shame that he did not hear the interviewer's question about horsepower as he was getting out of the car and that she did not repeat it. I think if he had said 828 horsepower (and maybe even mentioned the Dream's 1,070) that really would have blown the minds of a lot of viewers who are not acquainted with the power levels EVs can produce.
 
victoryroad said:
He represented Lucid very well. Too bad the interviewer did not ask more questions about Gravity. I am a bit surprised that only 50% of the Gravity orders are from Tesla owners, but it is encouraging that 75% of the orders are from non-Lucid owners. It would have been good if he had cited the percentage of domestically sourced content in the Gravity.
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I bet you most automakers don’t have that answer right now. Even for parts , it comes into effect a month later because even the Trump administration doesn’t know how to calculate the percentage
 
hmp10 said:
If people such as Eric Bach, Emad Dlala, David Lickfold, and Derek Jenkins stay with Lucid post-Rawlinson, it may be an encouraging sign that top-notch engineering and design will remain the core of Lucid's mission.

If any of these guys start heading for the door, I'd start getting very worried.
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I was speaking with several corporate Lucid folks today and none of them were phased by the change. I heard things like “Peter was ready to step back.” “He’s going to take a bit of time off, but then he’ll be out doing events again.” “He always planned to get Gravity out, the Atlas Motor finished and then to step back.” “He’s still got his hands in the design whenever needed.” “We are all happy for him. No one can keep the pace he was keeping forever.”

Obviously I cannot be certain these comments were all accurate, BUT they were consistent across several different corporate folks.
 
Blue Lectroid said:
I was speaking with several corporate Lucid folks today and none of them were phased by the change. I heard things like “Peter was ready to step back.” “He’s going to take a bit of time off, but then he’ll be out doing events again.” “He always planned to get Gravity out, the Atlas Motor finished and then to step back.” “He’s still got his hands in the design whenever needed.” “We are all happy for him. No one can keep the pace he was keeping forever.”

Obviously I cannot be certain these comments were all accurate, BUT they were consistent across several different corporate folks.
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I hope all of that is true, as I'm a big Rawlinson fan.

The only thing that leaves me doubting is that he left before a new CEO was lined up. That is not the hallmark of a planned exit.
 
hmp10 said:
I hope all of that is true, as I'm a big Rawlinson fan.

The only thing that leaves me doubting is that he left before a new CEO was lined up. That is not the hallmark of a planned exit.
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I completely agree and am not going to engage in speculation as to why Peter may have wanted to leave after Gravity launched but the timing was accelerated in an unplanned way. That said, I can think of any number of scenarios why that may have been the case.
 
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