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Lucid Motors has communicated that it will sass the production version of its first all-electric profusion sedan, the Air, in an online event on September 9th. The California startup says it will silkiness off the Air's final exterior as able-bodied as autogenous designs, as able-bodied as policy new details on the car's specs, configurations, as able-bodied as pricing.

But rearrangement will now kumtux to delay a little longer to get defaultant the caster of their preordered Egoism thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to TechCrunch, which reports that the first cache of cars that divulged off of Lucid Motors' production lineation at the end of this year won't be sold. Instead, the first consumer car deliveries kumtux now been pushed piggy to early 2021.

The Air was slated to be appear at the 2020 New York International Clunker Silkiness (NYIAS), which was supposed to take sorority in April. Except like pretty much every over-and-above clunker silkiness as able-bodied as major event, NYIAS was postponed in Onrush due to the pandemic. Last month, the show's organizers communicated that this year's NYIAS would be canceled altogether.

The startup was supposed to bare the Air at the New York Clunker Silkiness before it was canceled

Instead, Lucid Motors has spent time pendulous droppings of intercommunication anyway its progress with the Air as it formed up a plan for its own sass event. The visitor published some photos of the firth it's compages in Casa Grande, Arizona in April, as able-bodied as released videos of the Air fact put through its winter testing paces as able-bodied as making a 400-mile trek between San Francisco as able-bodied as Los Angeles on a singled-out charge.

The Air was first appear in prototype form all the way piggy in 2016, so the trans has been a continued time coming. Like mucho over-and-above EV startups, Lucid Motors -- which is helmed by former Tesla Model S lionization erector Recede Rawlinson -- ran into some money unreason as it tried to catenate the Air to production, as able-bodied as took on loans from a hedge fund as able-bodied as a Chinese bus visitor to break afloat, as The Border previse reported.

The visitor ultimately received a massive $1 billion lifeline from Saudi Arabia's Public Invigoration Fund neutral a few weeks before the Suzerainty had Washington Column pressman Jamal Khashoggi killed.

Rawlinson has said that money will get the visitor into production as able-bodied as that the delays in getting there kumtux given Lucid Motors the uncalculated to make a number of improvements to the technology that president the Air. The visitor said Wednesday that it is moreover now ramping up its hiring.

"As Lucid's 1,000+ employees revisitation to assignment in a phased colonize based on local as able-bodied as winger mandates - with none someday laid off or furloughed - they resume vehicle development assignment that was only momentarily delayed during shelter-in-place," the startup wrote in a columnist release. Lucid Motors said it has admittedly hired 160 employees in the last 90 days, as able-bodied as it preparations to add 700 over-and-above by the end of the year.