Uber and Lucid today announced a deal to put 20,000 self-driving Gravity SUVs on the road over the next six years, starting in 2026.
The Lucid Gravity is a 7-seat, luxury EV that debuted in November 2024. It starts at $94,900, and a $79,900 version arrives later this year. It’s earned a reputation as one of the most luxurious, high-tech electric cars available. Uber says the new rideshare offering will be “premium.”
The Lucid Gravity boasts a large ‘frunk’ (Credit: Emily Forlini)
Lucid Gravity on display at the NY Auto Show (Credit: Emily Forlini)
It’s a global program, but will launch next year in to-be-determined “a major US city,” Uber says. A similar partnership with Volkswagen begins in 2026 as well, starting in Los Angeles.
Although Lucid EVs have some of their own autonomous technology, including a new hands-free driving option, the software for the Uber partnership comes from Nuro. The Nuro Driver is a Level 4 system, which is much higher than the Level 2 systems consumers can operate from Tesla, Ford, GM, and others today.
“Nuro has spent nearly a decade building an AI-first autonomy system that’s safe, scalable, and vehicle-agnostic, proven through five years of driverless deployments across multiple US cities and state,” says Jiajun Zhu, Co-Founder and CEO at Nuro. “By combining our self-driving technology with Lucid’s advanced vehicle architecture and Uber’s global platform, we’re proud to enable a robotaxi service designed to reach millions of people around the world.”
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Lucid Gravity dash (Credit: Emily Forlini)
Uber chose Lucid because of its advanced software, sources tell us. The EV platform can be easily integrated with Nuro’s technology. Lucid also manufactured the vehicle for self-driving from the start, including the necessary braking and steering controls required for a driverless system.
Uber has been aggressively expanding its self-driving options amid Waymo’s nationwide expansion, and Tesla just getting started with its robotaxi service. It’s pursuing a range of service types. It plans to offer its own fleets, like the Lucid partnership, as well as make Waymo vehicles available on its app, like in Atlanta. The company’s goal is to reinvent car ownership, an executive told us at a launch event in May. It’s vision is to operate a hybrid service in the future, made up of cars with and without drivers.
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