Lucid Shatters World Record With 749-mile Drive On A Single Charge

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The wide take of electrical vehicles has agelong been hindered by a two-headed dragon: the deficiency of nationalist charging infrastructure and the emblematic driver's scope anxiety. These obstacles push automakers to find ways to amended scope and show disconnected their progress. A Lucid Air Grand Touring took nan Guinness World Record for nan longest travel successful an EV connected a azygous complaint past weekend. The luxury sedan completed an awesome 749-mile travel betwixt St. Moritz, Switzerland and Munich, Germany, shattering nan erstwhile grounds by astir 100 miles.

Lucid group different @GWR title for nan history books.

Together pinch @Umit_Sabanci, we person officially group a caller Guinness World Records title for nan longest travel by an electrical car connected a azygous charge. The Lucid Air Grand Touring covered an astonishing 1,205 kilometers (~ 749... pic.twitter.com/2LeayLnjgc

— Lucid Motors (@LucidMotors) July 8, 2025

Behind nan instrumentality of nan Lucid was Umit Sabanci, a London-based entrepreneur who has nan eccentric hobby of breaking Guinness World Records. In 2017, Sabanci group the grounds for visiting nan astir countries successful 24 hours by scheduled transportation. He and a friend darted to 13 countries crossed Europe. In 2022, he completed nan fastest circumnavigation of nan Earth by scheduled flights. Sabanci flew a three-flight itinerary from and to Los Angeles International Airport successful 46 hours and 23 minutes via Doha, Qatar and Brisbane, Australia.

Sabanci antecedently worked pinch Lucid. He collapsed nan grounds driving to nan astir countries connected a azygous complaint successful June 2024. The vanity grounds breaker drove 567 miles southward done nan Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein and Italy. In a statement regarding nan single-charge region record, he said:

"When I completed nan nine-country travel successful 2024, it was conscionable nan beginning. This caller accomplishment takes that travel moreover further. I'm proud to beryllium portion of a activity that proves electrical mobility isn't conscionable nan future; it's already redefining what's imaginable today."

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If his inheritance didn't show it, he isn't an elite-level EV hypermiling tuner. The tally was done successful collaboration pinch Lucid. The California-based shaper apt provided nan modifications and expertise basal to widen nan thrust acold beyond nan Lucid Air Grand Touring's EPA-estimated scope of 516 miles. Lucid has stripped nan grounds from a privately tally Mercedes-Benz EQS 450+. The erstwhile grounds of 645 miles was set conscionable past month and collapsed nan symbolic 1,000-kilometer barrier. One tin only dream that title for bragging authorities betwixt manufacturers will thrust nan grounds moreover further retired and lead to exertion that will go modular crossed each EVs.

It's difficult to judge that we're only 3 years removed from Mercedes-Benz Vision EQXX's unveiling. The German automaker built a hyper-efficient electrical conception car to beryllium that an electrical conveyance could person 1,000 kilometers of range. However, nan one-off car was designed arsenic a bland, blobby teardrop to minimize drag, taking usability complete shape to nan extreme. Now, we're seeing typically styled electrical cars blasting past nan 1,000-km mark. It's awesome to spot really acold EVs person progressed successful caller years, and hopefully, this level of improvement won't stop.