EV Startups Have a New Bottleneck: Demand

Lucid shares are down 14% premarket after the luxury electric-vehicle company said reservations had fallen since November

Lucid expects production of 10,000 to 14,000 vehicles this year.Photo: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg News

Last year American electric-vehicle startups were tripped up by production challenges. This year the problem could be demand.

Late on Wednesday, Lucid Group kicked off the reporting season for the various U.S. EV ventures that went public during the pandemic. It wasn’t pretty. The company made an operating loss of $2.6 billion on revenues of just $608 million last year, but that was to be expected as it ramps up output. 

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