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HittechLucid will struggle to scale its vehicle from prototype to mass production over the next two to three years
A scored prediction by Tom Nash, made on .
Scored prediction
Hittech“it's going to be a real challenge for the next two to three years not rather building the prototype but more about getting this car in a mass production scale”
Lucid will struggle to scale its vehicle from prototype to mass production over the next two to three years
- Made on
- 2021-11-18
- Outcome
- Hit
- Importance
- 3 / 5
- Effect on score
- +2.86
What counted as right
- Status
- resolved
- Settled on
- 2024-11-18
Lucid materially misses its own mass-production ramp targets (significant production shortfall vs stated guidance) during 2022–2024.
Criterion (Lucid materially misses its own mass-production ramp targets during 2022–2024) is clearly met. The company slashed its 2022 target from 20,000 to 6,000–7,000 and produced 7,180, and volumes stayed in the single-digit thousands through 2024 — a large, sustained shortfall versus stated ramp guidance. Note: Lucid technically 'exceeded' its final, heavily-reduced 6,000–7,000 guidance (7,180), but the prediction concerns the broader prototype-to-mass-production scaling struggle, which the repeated downward revisions and multi-year low volumes strongly confirm.
Sources
The Ugly TRUTH about LUCID [and RIVIAN]
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Evidence of what happened
Lucid entered 2022 guiding 20,000 vehicles, cut to 12,000–14,000 in late Feb 2022, then cut again to 6,000–7,000 in Aug 2022 (CEO Rawlinson citing 'extraordinary supply chain and logistics challenges'). It ultimately produced 7,180 vehicles in FY2022 — ~64% below its original 20,000 target.
Lucid official IR release: 3,493 vehicles produced in Q4 2022 and 7,180 for full-year 2022.
The scaling struggle persisted across the full window: Lucid produced ~8,428 vehicles in 2023 and ~9,000 in 2024 (10,241 deliveries in 2024), remaining far short of the mass-production ramp implied by earlier multi-year guidance and factory capacity (targeted 34k+ Phase 1 capacity).
Corrections
No public corrections.
Effect on the score
+2.86- How sure they sounded
- 85%
- Outcome
- Hit
- Importance
- 3 / 5
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Where this came from
Lucid will struggle to scale its vehicle from prototype to…- Methodology version
- v1.0.0
- Last computed
- August 2, 2026
- Made on
- 2021-11-18
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