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2022 Lucid Air Grand Touring vs. 2022 Mercedes-EQ EQS 580 4Matic
HEY, GASOLINE NUTS! The conspiracy theories are true: Cars like the 2022 Mercedes-EQ EQS and 2022 Lucid Air are coming to take your V-8s away. We’re here to confirm the big-body, big-engine, big-thirst executive sedan is officially on notice as of this model year, thanks in no small part to this pair of fully baked EV luxury sedans. The big body stays, but the buttery fuel-burner up front is halfway out the door, its final paycheck signed by a squadron of motors and a hulking battery pack. The Lucid Air Grand Touring and the Mercedes EQS 580 4Matic we tested recently have the speed, the presence, and the amenities, but are these usurpers possessed of the same panache? We’ll get to that.
Regardless of whether you plug in or pump up, let’s collectively revel in just how far this industry has come in a scant five years. It’s not outlandish to say the pace of innovation from 2016 through late 2021 easily outstripped gains made between 2005 and 2015. Moore’s Law? Never heard of him—and furthermore, he sounds like a punk. We’d pay good crypto for a glimpse at our own faces if we warped this duo back to 2016’s MotorTrend office and gave each of our past selves a scoot.
Speaking of 2016, that was an auspicious year for both parties involved here. Atieva rebranded itself as Lucid Motors that October, which quickly followed by breaking ground on
