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2021 Lucid Air

RANGE TEST

IF IT HOLDS UP, THE LUCID AIR’S 517-MILE RANGE FIGURE WILL CATAPULT THE SEDAN INTO THE STRATOSPHERE OF ELECTRIC CAR RANGES.

It’s 8:09 a.m., and we’re doing 66 mph on I-580 in the Bay Area, heading east from Hayward, California, when the odometer of the Lucid Air we’re riding in shows we’ve gone 100 miles since leaving the company’s headquarters at daybreak. The PR guy driving calls out, “We’re at 83 percent of the battery now,” and I jot this all down while in the back seat of a beta prototype of

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