The EPA rates the 2026 Lucid Air Pure RWD at 420 miles combined and 23.1 kWh per 100 miles measured at the wall, which is 146 MPGe. That is the lowest consumption figure of the 36 EPA-rated cars in this database, and the highest MPGe the EPA has given any electric car.
What makes it remarkable is the size of the battery it does that on. Lucid puts the pack at 84 kWh — smaller than the Mustang Mach-E’s, smaller than the Kia EV9’s — and gets 420 miles out of it. Lucid’s own framing is the clearest way to see it: 420 miles from 84 kWh is 5.0 miles per kWh, and no other production car has reached that. Gross capacity is 88 kWh, so the reserve is 4 kWh, about 4.5 per cent. Cells are NMC on an 800-volt bus. At the battery the car draws 20.0 kWh per 100 miles against 23.1 at the wall, so about 13 per cent goes to charging loss.
DC charging peaks at 250 kW and runs 10 to 80 per cent in 29 minutes — 58.8 kWh at an average of about 122 kW. The interesting number is what that buys: because the car is so efficient, 29 minutes returns roughly 294 miles, a little over ten miles a minute, which is more range per minute than cars that charge at a higher rate. Efficiency compounds at the charger as well as on the road. At home the onboard AC charger is 22 kW, double what almost everything else here offers, so a three-phase supply fills the pack in about four hours.