1,234 Horsepower
1,430 lb-ft Torque
1.89 sec 0-60 mph
I straighten the wheel as we join the highway on-ramp, with Los Angeles’ morning rush hour subsiding. We’re in full power mode, 1,234 horsepower to be exact, and I’ve got about a half-mile gap to the car in front. Lucid engineer David Lickfold is riding passenger, and as he sees the open road ahead, he says, “Floor it.” In an instant, the gap vanishes, and we’re barreling toward the poor crossover ahead. This 5,336-pound electric sedan hasn’t just sprinted. It has rocketed from a crawl in a way I’ve only felt once before — in the $2.2 million Pininfarina Battista a year prior.
To lay down all that power from its three electric motors, the 2024 Lucid Air Sapphire channels it…