Lucid Motors built twice as many electric vehicles in 2025 as it did in the prior year. This is a sign the company has bounced back from early production struggles with its new Gravity SUV.
The company announced that it finished the year having built 18,378 electric vehicles, with 8,412 of those coming in the fourth quarter alone. That is more than Lucid built at its Casa Grande, Arizona factory in the first half of the year. Lucid also said it delivered, meaning sold, 15,841 vehicles across the whole year. This represents a 55 percent increase over the company’s 2024 figures.
The stronger finish to 2025 sets Lucid up for an all-important year. The company will start building the first vehicle on its new mid-sized electric vehicle platform. Lucid has said this first vehicle will cost around $50,000, putting it near the same part of the market as the Tesla Model Y and Rivian’s upcoming R2 SUV.
These numbers still pale in comparison to the projections Lucid Motors shared when it went public in a four billion dollar reverse merger in 2021. At that time, the company claimed it would deliver 135,000 vehicles in 2025. The projection included 86,000 Gravity SUVs, 42,000 Air sedans, and the remaining 7,000 coming from its yet-to-debut mid-sized electric vehicle.
Those targets quickly became unrealistic. Lucid ran into production, supply, and demand challenges for both of its vehicles. This happened while navigating an automotive market that was severely disrupted by the pandemic. The company particularly struggled in early 2025 as it started to ramp up production of the Gravity SUV. It has since been dealing with a number of quality issues on the vehicle. The issues reached a level that prompted interim CEO Marc Winterhoff to send an email to customers in December. In the email, he stated that he shared in their frustration.
He wrote that lingering software problems have unfortunately affected customer experience and satisfaction. He assured customers the company is laser focused on addressing these issues.