2026 Lucid Air Touring review: a more polished, practical luxury EV

After spending a week with the 2026 Lucid Air Touring, Ars Technica found the sedan to be markedly more polished and more of a finished product than earlier Air models. The Touring starts at $79,900 and is presented as a refined, easy-to-live-with luxury electric sedan. The Touring’s all-wheel-drive powertrain produces 620 hp (462 kW) and 885 lb-ft (1,160 Nm); the car weighs 5,009 lbs (2,272 kg) and, in its fastest Sprint mode, accelerates to 60 mph in a time the review notes is 0.2 seconds more than the McLaren F1.

Lucid offers three drive modes — Sprint, Swift, and Smooth — and the car remembers your regenerative-braking setting when you lift off the accelerator. Lucid does not use brake-by-wire, so the brake pedal always operates the friction brakes, and the permanent-magnet motors mean the Air does not coast well even with lift-off regen set to off.

On efficiency, the Air Touring has an EPA range of 396 miles (673 km) with the 92 kWh pack on 19-inch aero wheels. In a cold-weather test with larger 20-inch wheels, the reviewer averaged almost 4 miles/kWh (15.5 kWh/100 km) on longer highway drives and about 3.5 miles/kWh (17.8 kWh/100 km) in city driving.

The car supports ISO 15118 plug-and-charge; charging a manually preconditioned battery from 27 to 80 percent took 36 minutes and added 53.3 kWh, which the dash indicated as 209 miles (336 km) of range. AC charging 0–100 percent is said to take around 10 hours.

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