There were a lot of contributing factors at that time…including the fact that it was a completely new company with no product on the roads and the delays were appreciably longer. Let’s keep this in perspective…orders opened four months ago, not two years ago. People’s ability to wait is more what seems to be changing and that MAY hurt Lucid, true. There are those that are in a rush and will settle for an inferior vehicle and/or need a vehicle soon and Lucid may lose them as customers in the short term, but there are a huge number of other buyers to be had when the car DOES ship.
If everyone’s fears about evaporating customers are so reality based, why is Lucid selling more Airs NOW than they did 3 years ago? Surely it’s not because they have fewer potential customers. And those initial 35,000 preorders? Preorders are always hugely over-inflated.
Respectfully, we disagree. I maintain that there is an echo chamber here of folks who want their Gravity and are having trouble dealing with the wait (potentially for completely legit reasons!), but let’s not paint a scenario for the demise of Lucid because it takes an extra several months to ramp up production. To me, that is just hyperbole.
Lucid said this would be a slow ramp with deliveries starting in earnest between now and Summer and seriously ramping up toward year-end. That’s what we’ve been told, do they really need to reassure of this every two weeks?