Lucid Air snatches a global EV range award

A Lucid Air sedan has managed to cover 1,205 kilometers (748.8 miles) without recharging in Europe, officially setting a Guinness Book record for the longest distance traveled on one EV charge.

The Air GT completed a trip from Saint-Moritz, Switzerland to Munich, Germany, traversing winding mountain roads and speedways driven in a way that the team behind the record described as “standard” and “natural”.

In Europe, the Air GT is offered with a powertrain rated at 831 PS (820 hp / 611 kW) and a battery pack WLTP-rated at 960 kilometers, or 596.5 miles. It starts from €129,900 in Germany. The U.S. version has similar components but a much smaller range rating of 824 km (512 miles).

Back when it introduced the Air facelift last summer, Lucid bragged about it being the most power-efficient EV in the United States. The company claimed that it could run 8 km (5 miles) on a single kilowatt of power. If the Guinness Book is any indication, those claims weren’t far from reality.