Lucid's midsize Cosmos crossover, a roughly $50,000 rival to the Tesla Model Y, is "now on track," CEO Marc Napoli said, InsideEVs reported. Production is planned at AMP-2, the company's second plant and first outside the United States, in King Abdullah Economic City, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in 2027.
"AMP-2 is moving towards inauguration and production readiness, and Midsize is now on track," Napoli said. The plant already assembles the Lucid Air, which is also built at AMP-1 in Casa Grande, Arizona. "Stamping line installation is complete, and commissioning is underway," he said. "Body shop installation is accelerating. Drive unit installation is progressing and paint is now in finalization with equipment continuing to arrive on site."
The Cosmos was originally scheduled to launch by the end of this year. Napoli pushed it to 2027 as part of a broader turnaround. Lucid said it will not rush the new EV to market, in order to avoid the quality problems that hit the Gravity and the Air. Final-stage prototyping is underway, including homologation and crash testing. Pilot production in Coolidge, Arizona, is entering its final build phase, including a know-how transfer to AMP-2. Apparent prototypes have been spotted near Lucid facilities. The company said this week it plans to announce reveal and production-start timelines in the first quarter of next year.
What we already know about the Cosmos
The starting price is about $50,000. Napoli told CNN in August that it will have more than 400 miles of range. At an investor day in March, Lucid said the model will be offered with both nickel-manganese-cobalt and lithium iron phosphate batteries. InsideEVs' Suvrat Kothari, who has seen a prototype behind closed doors, described it as a smaller Gravity, with a wide touchscreen across the dashboard, a lower-cost centralized electrical architecture, an 800-volt platform, and a compact drive unit Lucid calls Atlas.
Lucid is also planning tens of thousands of robotaxis with Uber and Nuro in the United States and with Bolt in Europe, a program that will include the Gravity in the U.S. and a midsize vehicle as well. The Cosmos itself is the volume product meant to get Lucid below luxury-sedan pricing. "On track" is Napoli's phrase, not a guaranteed on-sale date; the timelines are still due in the first quarter of 2027.
AMP-2 is Lucid's first plant outside the United States, which is why Napoli's update on stamping, the body shop, drive units, and paint matters for a volume model that will not be built only in Arizona. The Coolidge pilot line is the bridge: production knowledge is supposed to move from that U.S. shop to Jeddah before customer cars are built. Until Lucid publishes the first-quarter 2027 timeline, "on track" remains a status report, not a confirmed start week.