At the recent Goodwood Festival of Speed, I had the opportunity to sit down and have a casual chat with Lucid's CEO, Peter Rawlinson. Rawlinson is a fairly outspoken person, but not nearly as much as the CEO he used to work for. You see, Rawlinson was the Vice President and Chief of Vehicle Engineering for the Tesla Model S, a car that represents another Ford Model T moment in the automotive industry. Nobody really cared about EVs until the Model S launched in 2012, and after that, every legacy automaker was forced to catch up. Sorry, Tesla fanboys - every time you badmouth a Lucid, you're talking smack about the actual man responsible for making Tesla the colossus it is today.
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