Rivian and Lucid Turn Up the Heat on Tesla With Big Milestones
A Lucid Air prototype at the New York International Auto Show in 2017.
Photographer: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFPWelcome to the Hyperdrive daily briefing, decoding the revolution reshaping the auto world, from EVs to self-driving cars and beyond.
When the wave of startups and SPAC-funded electric-vehicle companies started getting billions shoveled their way last year, I figured two of them had a real chance to make it. Lucid and Rivian were both backed by deep-pocketed investors and had technology to brag about.