2025 Lucid Air Problems: 5 Known Issues

On the 2024-2025 Lucid Air, a documentation change caused Lucid to order rear drive unit subframe wiring harnesses shortened from the original design length. On Air Pure RWD cars assembled 29 November 2023 - 17 October 2024, the too-short harness is held under tension across the rear subframe, straining the electrical connection to the rear drive unit. The strained or pulled connection can interrupt power to the RDU, and because the Pure is single-motor, that means complete loss of drive power. Approximately 1,539 US vehicles and 7 in Canada are affected. This is a build/parts-ordering defect specific to the RWD subframe layout, not a general Air wiring fault.

On the 2024-2025 Lucid Air, on rear-wheel-drive Lucid Air Pure models built 13 Sep 2023 - 12 Dec 2024, vibration transmitted from the rear drive motor causes internal friction inside the Gen 4 inverter. Over time this wears internal components and can damage the switching module, causing the inverter to fail and the car to lose drive power without warning. Because the Pure uses a single rear drive unit, an inverter failure means total loss of propulsion rather than a degraded limp mode. Lucid counted 55 inverter failures attributable to this defect between March 2025 and March 2026, one of which was reported to NHTSA. This is exclusive to the single-motor RWD Pure; Air models with more than one drive unit are not covered because the second drive unit avoids a complete loss of drive power.

On the 2024-2026 Lucid Air, half-shaft retaining bolts on rear-wheel-drive Air Pure models were not properly secured at assembly. Lucid traced the root cause to interruption of the torque operation during the thread-adhesive curing window, which left bolts with damaged or contaminated adhesive that can back out in service. A loosened bolt set allows the half-shaft to disengage from the rear drive unit, producing an unwarned loss of drive power and, in the worst case, a detached shaft under the car. Lucid first identified an affected population in October 2025 using a telematics-based lash-detection algorithm (campaign 25V669, SR-25-03-0), then expanded the recall in 2026 under 26V193, adding 3,627 more vehicles built September 2023 - July 2025 that were under 25,000 miles and not already in 25V669.

On the 2022-2026 Lucid Air, owners consistently report DreamDrive applying the brakes for obstacles that are not there, on both Highway Assist / Drive Assist and plain adaptive cruise control. The dominant trigger pattern in owner reports is passing large vehicles - 18-wheelers with trailers and RVs - with one owner putting the rate at roughly 30 percent of overtakes on the right side; overpasses are the other repeated trigger. Severity ranges from a brief audio alert with a mild slowdown up to a hard brake application accompanied by a collision alert, which owners describe as a rear-end risk that makes the cruise control effectively unusable on some routes. Behavior is strongly software-version dependent and has moved in both directions across OTA releases: some owners reported their overpass and semi-truck events disappeared entirely on 2.8.0, while others reported the same release made the system more sensitive and highway driving more stressful. That version-dependence is the practical signature of this issue and distinguishes it from a hardware sensor fault.

On the 2022-2026 Lucid Air, two separate software-caused rear visibility noncompliances have hit the Air. Under 25V670, cars running software prior to 2.8.0 could have the lower console display fail to show the rearview camera image at all; cars with the first-generation Center Console Controller (CCCv1) and the AD02 package running software older than 2.7.1 could also show a delayed and inaccurate image of what is behind the vehicle - which is worse than no image because the driver acts on stale video. Under 26V017, a defect introduced with software 2.8.0 and present through 2.8.16 affects cars equipped with the AD02 package: the Autonomous Control Unit, coming out of a sleep state under increased compute load, can in limited instances fail to supply the rearview image when the vehicle is shifted into reverse. Both were filed as FMVSS 111 Rear Visibility noncompliances.