Lucid Air: World's Quickest Production Sedan Beats Tesla Model S On Quarter-Mile Run

Lucid Motors is about to come up with its first ever electric car - Lucid Air. As its launch date of next week approaches, developments on the luxury electric sedan are fast being shared. Till now, it has trumped the Tesla Model S in every sense. Now the company has shown that the electric car will be faster than the Tesla competitor too.

A new video of Air released by Lucid shows the electric sedan beating the Tesla Model S on a quarter-mile run. The EV did not just beat the Tesla car, it set an impressive quarter-mile time of a mere 9.9-second.

The impressive feat was achieved by the first version of the Air - the Lucid Air Dream Edition. In a new video, the EV can be seen making the run at the Sonoma Raceway in California, US. It is being raced against a Tesla Model S, which the EV is able to beat easily, clocking the 9.9 seconds mark for the quarter mile run.

With this, Lucid calls the Air to be the ¡°world¡¯s quickest production sedan.¡±

In a release following the test run, Lucid wrote:

¡°With up to 1,080 horsepower available in a dual-motor, all-wheel-drive package, the Lucid Air Dream Edition has achieved quarter-mile times as low as 9.9 seconds on a consistent basis, making it the world¡¯s quickest production sedan.¡±

The release highlights multiple innovations as the reason for the heightened performance. As per the release, Lucid has worked on making the electric motors ¡°powerful, compact, and ultra-efficient¡±, in addition to using an integrated transmission and differential. Coupled to these is a high voltage, silicon-carbide MOSFET inverter that does the trick.

Not the first ¡°first¡±

Lucid Air (Image: Lucid Motors)

This is not the only area where the EV is claimed to trump all the competition. Over the past few months, Lucid Motors has shared several test results on the car, claiming it to have garnered the best results in almost all of them.

The luxury EV, for instance, was recently hailed to be the most aerodynamic car in the world. In addition, the company has claimed a range of a whopping 830 km on it on a single charge, making it the EV capable of running for the longest distance.

So it is clear that as the Lucid Air makes its global debut next week, the electric car will set new standards in the EV space. Time for Tesla to pull up its sleeves? Let us know what you think in the comment section below.