Deployment
Lucid Gravity at California
Lucid Motors electric SUV. Base vehicle for the Lucid-Nuro-Uber robotaxi program (Nuro Driver L4 hardware integrated at Lucid; software commissioned for Uber). Consumer Gravity also sold separately.
Lucid Gravity by Lucid Motors · Operated by Nuro · Catalog entry · 6 sources · not yet field-verified · Robotaxis
Recent coverage
- Lucid And Uber Will Bring Robotaxis To Houston Next - insideevs.comGoogle News · 2026-09-26
- Lucid is cutting $1.4bn and betting its survival on robotaxis - The Next WebGoogle News · 2026-08-05
- Lucid Preparing to Build First Validation Robotaxis for Uber-Nuro, CEO Says - eletric-vehicles.comGoogle News · 2026-06-19
California DMV modified Nuro driverless permit to authorize testing of Lucid Gravity SUVs on public roads without human safety operator. Nuro partnering with Lucid and Uber for next-gen robotaxi fleet, with commercial deployment scheduled to begin in a major US city in 2026.
Key facts
- Permit
- CA DMV driverless testing authorization for Nuro operating Lucid Gravity (Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties per DMV permit-holder list). Separate from paid driverless deployment.
- Partners
- Nuro (autonomy) + Lucid Motors (Gravity vehicle) + Uber (network / fleet).
- Vehicle
- Lucid Gravity SUV with Nuro Driver L4 stack.
- Commercial launch
- 2026 in a major US city
- CPUC passenger pilot
- Nuro (8 May 2026): CPUC Drivered Pilot Permit for passenger-carrying tests with a safety driver. Does not authorize paid rides or driverless passenger service.
- Commercial launch target
- San Francisco Bay Area later in 2026 (Lucid IR 14 Apr 2026; Uber IR 17 Jun 2026). Not yet driverless commercial deployment.
Exposure
- Customer segment
- consumer
- Scale tier
- pilot lt10
Each exposure value carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Safety record
No incidents on record for Lucid Gravity at California.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
- Trust tier
- Catalog entry · 6 sources · not yet field-verifiedhow tiers work →
- Last updated
- 2026-09-24
- Model
- Lucid Gravity
- Company
- Lucid Motors
- Location
- United States/California
- Operator
- Nuro
- Status
- pilot
- Operator type
- maker operated
- Scale at site
- 2 to 10 units
- Site environment
- outdoor
- Location precision
- verified coordinates
- First seen
- 2025-01-01
- ID
a9f87e49-fbc5-4b44-9f41-803a3f1b76fa
Timeline
- Jan 2025First recordedLucid Gravity first documented operating at California.
- Sep 2026Current status: pilot, reviewedLatest recorded state. New status transitions append here as the deployment-status recorder produces them.
On the deployment map
Lucid Gravity operates in California. Explore the full verified map:
Sources (6)
- https://www.business2community.com/2026/05/07/nuro-uber-california-dmv
- https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-industry-services/autonomous-vehicles/autonomous-vehicle-testing-permit-holders/ · 2026-04-03
- https://www.nuro.ai/blog/nuro-secures-cpuc-permit-for-testing-robotaxi-passenger-service-in-california · 2026-05-08
- https://ir.lucidmotors.com/news-releases/news-release-details/lucid-receive-new-investments-pif-and-uber-uber-and-lucid-expand · 2026-04-14
- https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-details/2026/Uber-Nuro-and-Lucid-to-Bring-Robotaxi-Service-to-Houston-in-2027/default.aspx · 2026-06-17
- https://eletric-vehicles.com/lucid/lucid-cfo-says-uber-nuro-robotaxi-is-unlike-anything-else-on-the-road/ · 2026-09-24
Methodology: Verified · 6 sources (3 primary) · last reviewed 2026-09-24
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-09-24
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: pilot
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: av
Sources by quality tier
- 3
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 2
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
- 1
- primary-regulatory-filing
- Regulatory filing
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