---
title: "The 2023 Lucid Air Sapphire Has 3 Motors, 1,200-HP, Can Hit 60 MPH in Under 2 Seconds"
date: "2022-08-19"
modified: "2022-08-19"
authors:
  - name: "Aaron Cole"
    job_title: "Contributor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/aaron-cole"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/the-2023-lucid-air-sapphire-has-3-motors-1200-hp-can-hit-60-mph-in-under-2-seconds"
categories:
  - "Car Tech"
  - "Electric Vehicles"
  - "Lucid News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
tags:
  - "air"
  - "Electric Vehicle"
  - "Lucid"
  - "Lucid Motors"
  - "sedan"
  - "sports car"
---

# The 2023 Lucid Air Sapphire Has 3 Motors, 1,200-HP, Can Hit 60 MPH in Under 2 Seconds

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/19/sapphire-salt-flats-top-3q-epk.jpg>)
*\<em\>Lucid Motors\</em\>*

If nearly [1,000 horsepower in an electric sedan](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/42665/2022-lucid-air-first-drive-review-520-miles-of-range-aimed-at-tesla>) just isn’t enough, Lucid has an answer for you. On Friday, the automaker announced an even-more powerful version of its electric sedan by way of the Lucid Air Sapphire. The specs are heady: more than 1,200 horsepower (exact power coming later), 0-60 mph in less than two seconds, 0-100 mph in less than four seconds, and a quarter mile in less than nine seconds, and a top speed faster than 200 mph. The cost for all that? A cool quarter-million bucks to start.

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/19/air-sapphire-11-epk-srgb.jpg>)

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![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/19/air-sapphire-rdu-skateboard-rear-view-winverters-epk-srgb.jpg>)

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According to [Lucid](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/lucid-motors-jacks-up-pricing>), the sedan will have the hardware to back all that with three electric motors, two at the rear and one at the front. The automaker also claims that massive carbon-ceramic brakes and a performance-tuned suspension will arrest the Air Sapphire if the road turns into something other than a quarter-mile dragstrip.

The twin motor setup at the rear allows the Air Sapphire to have torque vectoring at the rear wheels to carve a tighter line, should someone decide to push their uber-luxe sedan into twisties on a track.

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/19/lm22-sapphire-interior-epk-srgb.jpg>)

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/19/air-sapphire03-epk-srgb.jpg>)

The Air Sapphire will ride on the same skeleton as the Air sedan, which is to say [a big back seat](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/41334/the-lucid-air-has-incredible-legroom-and-your-other-questions-answered>), lots of interior space and luxury amenities. For your $249,000, the Air Sapphire includes black leather with black Alcantara and blue stitching, Mojave darkwood interior trim, a massive glass roof and fun bears on the headrests. (It’s Lucid’s way of reminding us they’re based in California.) There are even carbon-fiber inserts for the wheels to make the Air Sapphire more efficient—if that's of any interest to buyers opting in for a sedan with four-digit horsepower figures.

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/19/sapphire-salt-flats-3q-front-epk-2.jpg>)

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Lucid isn’t discussing many specifics about the Sapphire sedan—no specific power output, brake size, suspension hardware, or estimated range—but did say the Sapphire name could be applied as a “brand” for the relatively small EV maker in the future. Whether that means more Sapphire editions later isn’t clear, but the Air Sapphire will arrive next year.

## Author
Aaron began his career in journalism when the news was printed on dead trees and thrown on driveways. A graduate of the University of Utah, he began his career as a sportswriter and has covered news for over a decade.

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