[Lucid Motors – Atieva] American EV startup from California – Taking on Tesla
BAIC and Atieva are closely related. The Beijing Electric Vehicle Corporation (BEVC), a subsidiary of BAIC, is the largest shareholder of Atieva with a 25.3% stake.
Atieva = Advanced Technology In Electronic Vehicle Application
Lucid Motors’ Lucid Air will be priced it at around US$60,000.
| Founded | 2007; 12 years ago |
|---|---|
| Founder | Bernard Tse Sam Weng |
电动汽车应用领域先进技术
在2014年，北汽入股该公司，并成为其第一大股东。未来北汽将进行整车的代工和生产，而Atieva则负责提供核心技术。此前，还发布了概念车Lucid Vision的官图。
Another large shareholder in Atieva is China’s LeTV, which cooperates with BAIC in making electric ‘connected’ cars in China. LeTV’s is also backing Faraday Future, a still somewhat mysterious company that has announced a one-billion dollar factory in Nevada and an electric concept car in January.
Faraday is backed by Chinese billionaire Jia Yeuting, owner of LeTV, a fabulously successful enterprise known as “the Chinese Netflix.” Now, China’s state-owned auto company BAIC says its Beijing Electric Car Company division has bought a majority interest in Atieva, the San Francisco–based operation that says, “We’re redefining what a car can be by building an iconic new vehicle from the ground up. We’re a car company, not a design house. And we’re definitely not a traditional automaker.”
![[Lucid] New Lucid Air is a 1,000bhp EV to beat Tesla](https://www.wautom.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/lucid_air-200x140.jpg "[Lucid] New Lucid Air is a 1,000bhp EV to beat Tesla")
Lucid Motors’ co-founder is Sam Weng, an entrepreneur previously focused on battery systems.
Menlo Park, California-based Lucid Motors does not appear “Chinese” on the surface, with most of its senior management from the U.S. and all of its operations in North America. But its disclosed investors are mainly from China, including China’s LeEco, Tsing Capital, China Environmental Fund and Jafco Life Science.
Lucid was founded in 2007 by an entrepreneur named Sam Weng, who is fluent in Japanese, Chinese and English, with two other partners to focus on developing battery systems for EVs. In 2014, the team decided to build a complete car and raised a 9-digit funding round, reportedly with US$200 million from the above Chinese investors and Japan’s Mitsui & Co., Ltd., as well as U.S. venture firm Venrock.
The company has revealed its car Lucid Air and priced it at US$60,000 for a 400-horsepower rear-wheel drive version of the sedan with a 240 miles range. After deducting the federal tax credit available for buyers of electric vehicles, the Lucid Air will have a base price of US$52,500. The base model car will provide better performance than comparably priced BMWs and Mercedes-Benzes, the company claims.
Lucid is planning to start shipping cars in 2019, first in the U.S., followed by China and Europe. The company is aiming to sell 8,000 to 10,000 vehicles in its first full year of production, ramping up to about 50,000 annually within three years. It is also planning to build a US$700 million factory in Arizona.
与此同时，Lucid与亚利桑那州州长Doug Ducey以及商业局和当地官员一起宣布，位于该州卡萨格兰德Casa Grande的工厂正式开工建设，预计将于2020年底完工，该工厂第一阶段建设投资超过3亿美元，从而为Lucid的第一款汽车Lucid Air豪华轿车的生产做好准备。
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续航640+1000匹马力，2.5秒破百！它不仅蔑视特斯拉，还要从BBA手里抢市场
和国内新势力一样，美国的新势力造车也非常火热，加州电动汽车初创公司 Lucid Motors 正是这股潮流中的一员。该公司于2007年在美国加利福尼亚州成立，公司300多名员工都是之前在马自达，特斯拉以及其他汽车工业公司的员工。
Lucid Motors在2016年11月29日宣布将于耗子7亿美元在美国亚利桑那州的Casa Grande建设拥有2000多人的工厂，该城市也是曾经特斯拉Giga Factory的选址之一。
2016年12月，Lucid Motors 发布了旗下首款量产车型 Air，配备100 千瓦时的电池组提供动力，其最大功率达到了 1013 马力，百公里速度仅需 2.5 秒，续航最大可达643Km。
有趣的是，虽然市场上有许多汽车行业和媒体都拿Lucid Motors的产品于特斯拉进行对比和分析，但是Lucid Motors官方发言人却表示：Lucid Air车型的竞争对手根本就不是特斯拉Model S，而是奔驰E级与S级轿车。Air的豪华程度远远超越了Model S。
Power, the motor maximum power to 660kW, 100 km acceleration less than 3 seconds, the maximum mileage will reach 482km.
日前，海外有媒体曝光了一张Atieva公司旗下电动车谍照，新车或将命名为Lucid。该公司由谢家鹏在2009年创立，此人也是特斯拉创始人之一。致力于研究、开发和生产电动汽车核心动力系统。
动力方面，电机最大功率达到660kW，百公里加速不足3秒，最大续航里程将达到482km。
Atieva 创始人 谢家鹏(Bernard TSE) 博士
在Tesla成功之后，Tesla的创始董事谢家鹏(Bernard TSE)博士带领一批专家创建了Atieva公司( http://www.atieva.com/ )，总部位于美国加利福尼亚州硅谷地带的红木市(Redwood City)。
Atieva was founded in 2007 by Bernard Tse, former second man in Tesla.
Atieva: Former Tesla Model S Chief Engineer is bringing a new all-electric luxury sedan to market
Last year, we reported on Atieva, an electric vehicle startup founded by Bernard Tse, a former Tesla Vice President and board member. Tse was on Tesla’s board from 2003 to 2007 and he headed Tesla’s short-lived energy division during his last year at the company – long before it relaunched a new and improved ‘Tesla Energy’ division in 2015.
Tse resigned from the board to head the ‘Tesla Energy Group’, but left not long after Martin Eberhard, then Tesla’s CEO and longtime friend of Tse, was ousted by Elon Musk. Tesla reorganized to adjust their worrying cash burn at the time and focused on the Tesla Roadster instead of energy storage solutions.
After leaving, he found Atieva with the ambition to make it something similar to what he and Eberhard hoped the ‘Tesla Energy Group’ could become; a company developing cell agnostic battery packs both for third-party electric vehicles and other energy storage applications.
But as we reported last year, the company eventually hired Peter Rawlinson, Tesla VP and Model S Chief Engineer, along with several other EV experts from Tesla and other companies, and then changed its focus to bring to market a new electric vehicle from the ground up and not just the drivetrain.
No matter what you call it, it’s really quick. Atieva, the electric-vehicle startup whose test-mule van smoked a Tesla and Ferrari in a drag race this summer, has changed its name to Lucid Motors. The Silicon Valley company may show a concept version of its electric sedan by the end of the year and says it will start sales by 2018.
Lucid Motors’ sedan will house a 87-kilowatt-hour battery pack that will provide the car with a whopping 900 horsepower and a 0-to-60 mile-per-hour acceleration time of less than three seconds.
How exhilarating? Well, Atieva, which was founded in 2007 by a group of former Tesla and Oracle executives, rebuilt an all-wheel-drive van out of an old Mercedes-Benz Vito utility truck with one of its powertrains, and named that van Edna. This summer, Edna was shown not only drag-racing a Tesla Model S and Ferrari California, but beating them.
Lucid has received funding from Japan-based Mitsui as well as China’s Beijing Auto. The company is planning to build a factory that will make 20,000 vehicles during its first year of production and work its way up to 130,000 vehicles a year. Lucid is headed by chief technology officer Peter Rawlinson, the former Tesla vice president who was key in developing the Model S electric sedan. The Menlo Park, California-based company also includes VP of design Derek Jenkins, who previously worked with Mazda.
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乐视对于电动车的投资可谓不遗余力，除了本身的亲儿子超级汽车外，还有法拉第未来及Atieva这两个海外品牌。