5.0 miles/kWh: Say Hello to the World's Most Efficient Car

Perhaps most exciting of all, the new Lucid Air Pure delivers 420 miles of EPA-estimated range from a battery pack that is just 84 kilowatt-hours. Enabled by further advancements of Lucid's groundbreaking technology, this makes the Lucid Air the first vehicle in the world to achieve a ratio of 5.0 miles of range per kilowatt hour (kWh) of energy. It has also earned the highest MPGe (miles per gallon equivalent) rating ever given to an EV with 146 MPGe from the EPA.

With the advancements driven by Lucid, the Lucid Air Pure is the most energy-efficient and sustainably-powered vehicle ever made. Whatever journey you are embarking upon, the Air Pure effectively requires less energy to go from point A to point B than anything else available today. It is a major milestone in the global effort for sustainable electric transportation.

To put this in some context, the new Lucid Air Pure is not only vastly more fuel-efficient than popular gasoline-powered vehicles like the Honda Civic and the Toyota Prius Hybrid, it is even significantly more efficient than other fully electric vehicles.

The batteries used in electric vehicles are better than ever, but they remain large, heavy, and costly. The larger the battery pack in a vehicle, the bigger, heavier, and more expensive it will be. Indeed, this is why so many automakers have struggled to introduce appealing EVs.

Eficiency is the path to electric vehicles without such compromises. Efficiency is what makes it possible to design electric vehicles that deliver the range that consumers expect without relying on an enormous battery pack and thus sacrificing affordability, passenger space, and a fun driving experience.

How efficient an electric vehicle is when driving on the road also drives critical differences in how much time is spent off the road for charging. While much attention is paid - rightly - to public charging infrastructure, the fact remains that roughly 90% of EV charging is done at home, with Level 2 (AC) charging systems that deliver the same power regardless of what kind of EV is plugged in. This means that, when plugged in overnight, most EVs will receive roughly the same amount of energy. But how far an EV can travel with that energy is another matter entirely.

When plugged in for 10 hours at home, the new Lucid Air Pure can add 380 miles of driving range, charging the vehicle from 0% to 90%. Over the same 10-hour period, a Tesla Model S would only reach 76%, for a total of 306 miles. Plugged in overnight, a Rivian R1S SUV would be only 51% charged, with just 204 miles of range available from its large battery pack.

Increasing efficiency means also makes it possible to build more cars for a given amount of raw materials, helping mitigate the footprint of manufacturing. Lucid recently announced our first sustainability report would be published this year, and we are looking forward to sharing more on this topic as well.

We are proud of this most recent achievement, but we know that the work must continue unabated to make EVs even more appealing, and more attainable, to consumers around the world. While 5 miles per kilowatt-hour was today's milestone, we must continue running towards a future with ever more efficient transportation, cleaner air, and healthier lives for future generations.

For more information about all of the updates for the Lucid Air Pure and the rest of the Lucid Air model lineup, we invite you to read today's press release here.