The Lucid Gravity is a technology and luxury tour de force.

TL;DR: Lucid Gravity Grand Touring, dual-motor, all-wheel drive – Three rows, seven passenger capacity. Excellent driver assist technology. One of the quietest cars I’ve ever driven with one of the best sound systems. Good range: rated at 386 miles (though it topped off at about 325 miles for me driving at higher highway speeds). It’s fast for a big car that weighs about 6,000 pounds. Biggest downside? Price. Lucid Gravity Grand Touring as tested has an MSRP of $126,850. But is it worth it? Yes.

I’ll try to keep this review as short as possible and compile a quick list of things that impressed me:

Quiet: I’ve never experienced such an absence of road noise and quiet in any EV. 'Nough said.

Sound: You know it’s a good sound system when you can hear, for the first time, background instruments and buried harmonies in songs you’ve listened to a thousand times. I would say its 10-speaker sound system is easily one of the best.

UI: Lucid’s user interface is one of the more intuitive interfaces I’ve used with a clean menu structure and physical shortcuts that let you adjust climate, media, or driving settings without hunting through nested screens.

ADAS: this is where the future-proof discussion begins. The Advanced Driver Assistance System was probably the single most impressive thing. Compared to the Lucid Air I tested in 2024, the Gravity’s DreamDrive 2 Pro is a masive upgrade. It handled all highway driving duties with intelligence and skill: steering, braking, acceleration, keeping a safe distance from the car in front, and overtaking slower cars. I would estimate that 90%+ of my pure highway driving was handled by DreamDrive. That includes smaller, divided highways too. In short, sit back, relax and leave (most of) the highway driving to the Gravity. With the caveat* that DreamDrive (like all ADAS) gets flaky in edge cases, such as construction zones, sudden slowdowns, and complex merges.

Comfort: the plush ride combined with comfortable seats and a quiet cabin adds up to serious luxury. So, everything considered, it’s probably worth the $126,850 MSRP.

Range: range is highly dependent on driving speed. While Lucid advertises 386 miles of range for the Gravity Grand Touring, my range was closer to 325 miles. Likely due to the fact that I drive at highway speeds of 70-75 mph. If you slow down to 65 mph or – perish the thought – 60 mph, your range will jump and you’ll get a lot closer to the stated 386 miles.

Charging: the Gravity comes with a Tesla NACS charging port. Charging was easy. Simply plug it in and it starts charging (just like a Tesla). Charging is generally fast but the speed, I found, is usually dependent on factors external to the car. Charging in Los Angeles can be grid constrained or due to demand management throttling. Some nights I got a very fast charge going, for example, from 62 miles to 300 miles in about 30 minutes. But on other days during daylight hours when it was hot, there was definite demand management going on.

Speed: Despite its size, the Lucid Gravity Grand Touring is fast. Very fast. It’s rated at 0–60 mph in 3.4 seconds and produces 828 horsepower from a dual-motor all-wheel-drive architecture.

Third row: The Gravity I tested came with a third row. It was easily accessible with the push of a button (see photo).

Like every EV start-up —including pre-2018 Tesla—Lucid has financial challenges. But the fact that a relatively small player can build and bring together so much complex hardware and software in the Gravity is genuinely impressive.

*DreamDrive, like all ADAS, isn’t able to handle all highway driving scenarios: Complex 6- and 8-lane merges in Los Angeles, especially if there are unclear lane markers, should be done with the ADAS off. As with any ADAS, you have to always pay attention because DreamDrive will not allow you to get distracted. And it does not navigate city streets like Tesla’s Full Self-Driving does.