If it had been available before I would have gone with it, the only reason we didn't get the DE was that we didn't want a 7 seater. This would have been perfect.
I think it charges the same, just less efficiency so to gain the same number of miles takes more kWh to be added to the battery.
Now that I think about it I don't know if it's physically possible to fit two motors to the rear. The rear-wheel steering is separate actuators to operate each wheel, so that might into the width you get between the wheels. Then Lucid does their usual space optimization to get as much interior room as possible. I'm not sure how much room would be left once all that is implemented.
Elaborating on this. Remember the baseline for the DE and GT Gravity is 450 standard advertised based on 20/21 inch wheels & tires. So the efficiency per kwh of the battery used or range recovered from charging is calculated based off that 450 miles of range efficiency of 20/21 inch all season tires.
You will make some back in resale value. So actually, a good deal if you want to brag!
The Gravity X is what even put Lucid on the map for me! I would have LOVED one. Then I realized it wasn’t coming anytime soon (or ever), so I settled for a DE, but yeah, an X would have been very popular in my social circle.
X won’t lead to that many more sales. Suppliers will charge a lot for limited production. And right now, they need to cut costs. Sensible not to do Gravity X right now because it will complicate supply chain and production.
Not much less money -- if you configure it like a DE, it's $137,800. The only difference is that you can't get it in Aurora Green (I guess that's the one combination that's exclusive to the DE -- Green AND 1070 HP), and it doesn't have a numbered sill plate.
I appreciate this is a low technical lift, and yes, always good to have more options for customers.
Good point, however I think you don't need both. With dual rear motors you can use torque vectoring to pivot the car to nearly the same affect as Rear steer.
I'm in this boat. I really don't understand why they showed the model off last year and did nothing with it. I'm 100% sure the Gravity X would sell more than the regular Gravity in my area and eat into R1S sales. But I guess they don't want to compete with Rivian.
It was all fake. Upscale nurturer blah blah none of it was ever real or ever going to be. They fired everybody because it was a joke.This GtS at least makes sense as a car and actually exists. It’s back to reality.
It's entirely possible that a year ago they thought they'd release a production vehicle if the concept car got a good reception, but then the botched Gravity launch caught up with them and so their plans changed and now they're just trying to keep the company afloat until they can launch Cosmos.
They announced, when they announced it, that it was a concept model. Lots of manufacturers make concepts that never see production.
