Lucid CEO Says The Company Didn't Know Where Its Own Cars Were

Gaps in its logistics system caused the EV maker to lose orders.

Sam Rutherford for Engadget

Lucid, the California-based Tesla rival that makes luxury EVs like the Air and Gravity, has an interesting excuse for its third quarter earnings underperformance. The company said it lost sales due to inventory control issues, with CEO Silvio Napoli admitting in an earnings call that sometimes "we did not even know where cars were." That chaos resulted in slow delivery times up to two weeks that caused Lucid to lose orders from impatient buyers.

The company doesn't have millions of cars to keep track of like Tesla, either. Lucid built just 2,954 vehicles last quarter and delivered 3,806, down seven percent from the year before. Building fewer cars than it sold helped it reduce inventory, but it still had $1.22 billion worth on the books at the end of September.

With its logistics...

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