It Sure Looks Like GM Is Copying Lucid’s Homework

By Peter Holderith – Motor 1

Lucid Motors builds the most efficient electric vehicles in the world, and the rest of the auto industry wants a piece of that efficiency. Some, like Aston Martin, see fit to simply purchase the automaker’s tech. Others want to develop it for themselves. One of those companies appears to be General Motors, which recently applied for a patent on a compact electric drive unit that uses one of Lucid’s key architectural features: the differential-in-rotor design.