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Lucid looking to rise prices for future models due to inflationary pressures

by Meghana Kandra
March 18, 2022
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Rising costs have Lucid CEO eyeing price hike for future electric cars
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Lucid CEO Peter Rawlinson states that Lucid is looking to raise the prices of their future models. As a result of “huge inflationary pressures,” the company is said to increase prices for current reservation holders as well. CEO Peter Rawlinson told Reuters, “There’s an inevitability that we will have to look at the price points of models that are coming out in the future,”

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Rising costs have Lucid CEO eyeing price hike for future electric cars
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“I think it would be absolutely foolish of me to say we’re never going to raise our prices,” Rawlinson said in the interview on the sidelines of the South by Southwest music, technology, and film festival (SXSW). “What we want to do is to honor and keep our commitments to existing reservation holders. I think that’s what was ill-received in the market with Rivian.”

It is known that he was referring to this month’s decision by electric truck maker Rivian to hike prices on existing reservations and then reverse course after consumers protested. Furthermore, Tesla has recently raised vehicle prices in the United States and China after CEO Elon Musk said the biggest electric carmaker faces significant inflationary pressure in raw materials and logistics. Additionally, Lucid announced in February cut its production forecast for this year to a range of 12,000 to 14,000. It changed from its original target of 20,000 vehicles, citing “extraordinary supply chain and logistics challenges.” Its shares slid after that announcement.

Bottlenecks

Rawlinson on Thursday said the bottlenecks were caused by a handful of suppliers for windshield glass, carpeting, and some exterior trim parts. “I’m super frustrated because we’re not gated by silicon chips, we’re not gated by our ability to make electric motors,” Rawlinson said. Switching to different suppliers for those parts would compromise quality, he said. He questioned whether Rivian would be able to make a profit on its pickup trucks without raising prices, given the costs of battery packs.

“I don’t think even we could, with the best technology in the world, make an affordable, practical pickup,” he said. Tesla, which is developing its own electric pickup, faces a “primary challenge” in making it affordable, CEO Elon Musk said this month. “If it is extremely hard to do so for Tesla, despite our much greater economies of scale & better technology, then it is damn near impossible for others,” Musk said. Rivian was not immediately available for comment. Rawlinson also said Lucid has started on a prototype of in-house battery cell production, adding that it also has partnerships with battery suppliers Samsung SDI and LG Energy Solutions.

Credits- Reuters

Tags: electric vehiclesEV pricesinflationary pressurePeter Rawlinsonrising pricessupply chain
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Meghana studied PGD in Journalism, open university. She has more than five years of experience in content writing, from creative content development to online journalism. Electric vehicle enthusiast, engineer, and feminist.

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