(Credit: Lucid Motors)
The 2025 Lucid Air lineup features the most efficient electric cars you can buy, the EV maker claims, with a 146MPGe rating.
When shopping for an EV, miles per gallon of gasoline equivalent (MPGe) charts the car's efficiency. Like the more familiar mile-per-gallon (MPG), the "e" rating for EVs and hybrids measures how far the car can travel per unit of electrical energy. The Lucid Air lineup, which offers a 420-mile range on the entry-level ($69,900) Pure trim, goes 5 miles per kWh of energy.
"This means that the new Lucid Air Pure requires less electrical energy for any journey taken, A to B, than any other vehicle on the market today," Lucid says.
The new MPGe record joins another one held by Lucid: Its top-of-the-line Lucid Air Grand Touring ($110,900) trim has a 512-mile range, the most of any EV on the market today. The middle Touring trim has a 406-mile range and starts at $78,900.
Bragging rights aside, improved efficiency has some practical implications. Consuming less energy to travel further can reduce the size of heavy, costly battery packs, which "reduces demands on public power grids and enables adding more miles with less energy," Lucid says.
Lucid also made its "ultra-compact, high-performance" heat pump standard on all models in the lineup, which helps preserve range in cold conditions.
The infotainment systems also feature new hardware that offers "triple the processing power and twice the memory compared to the previous generation." The advanced SurrrealSoundPro system is also now standard on the Grand Touring.
Lucid reported higher-than-expected quarterly EV sales earlier this month, Bloomberg reports, though it has struggled in recent months to find the right luxury buyers. The 2025 lineup could keep the momentum going with its relatively affordable starting price for the performance.
The brand's first electric SUV, the Gravity, also debuts later this year with a 440-mile range and $80,000 starting price.