Lucid could also be finest identified for its Air luxurious electrical sedan, however the California firm began life way back to 2007 as a provider of EV know-how to main OEMs, beneath the identify Atieva.
Regardless of shifting into automobile manufacturing, Lucid hasn’t deserted its provide enterprise and on Wednesday introduced certainly one of its newest offers: the availability of entrance motor-generators for the Method E World Championship.
Lucid has additionally beforehand provided battery packs to Method E.
The motor-generator, which Lucid refers to as an electrical drive unit, for the reason that absolutely contained unit additionally includes an inverter, differential, and transmission, options in Method E’s Gen3 race automobile which began racing this 12 months. The Gen3 is widespread to all groups, although sure parameters will be developed by particular person groups.
Method E Gen3 race automobile
When saying its Gen3 automobile final April, Method E organizers mentioned the automobile’s motor-generators are capable of convert about 95% of the battery’s electrical vitality into movement. Evaluate that with a manufacturing internal-combustion engine which at most makes use of about 40% of the saved vitality in gas for movement.
The electrical drive unit weighs simply 70.5 kilos however generates a most 469 hp, or about 6.6 hp for each pound of weight. The motor within the electrical drive unit can spin to 19,500 rpm, and in accordance with Lucid the continual wave winding and propriety cooling system is similar used within the Air sedan.
2022 Lucid Air Grand Touring
“This new motorsports drive unit builds immediately upon the groundbreaking powertrain know-how developed in-house by Lucid and confirmed on the highway in each Lucid Air,” Peter Rawlinson, Lucid’s CEO and CTO, mentioned in a press release.
Rawlinson additionally mentioned that classes discovered in motorsports, together with Method E, could in flip profit future Lucid highway automobiles.