Lucid Motors chief engineer leaves after 10 years

Lucid Motors chief engineer Eric Bach has left the company after more than a decade, the company announced Announce.

Bach, who also served as senior vice president of product at Lucid Motors, has been with the company since 2015. He joins Lucid after spending three years as director of engineering at Tesla, where he worked alongside former Lucid Motors CEO and CTO Peter Rawlinson. Bach spent more than a decade at Volkswagen before Tesla.

Jerry Ford, vice president of quality at Lucid Motors, will also retire. She will be replaced by Marnie Livergood, who comes to the company from Scout Motors.

Meanwhile, Imad Dalala, current senior vice president of powertrain at Lucid Motors, has been promoted to oversee all “engineering and digital.” Dlala has already been promoted once earlier this year, and has been with the company since 2015.

These changes come as Lucid enters its ninth month without a permanent CEO after Peter Rawlinson He resigned suddenly in February. Mark Winterhoff, the former Chief Operating Officer, has served as CEO on an interim basis since then.

The losses of Bach and Ford are the latest in a string of executive departures at Lucid Motors. The company’s head of investor relations, senior vice president of operations, managing director of Europe, and vice presidents of software quality and marketing have all departed over the past year.

The changes occur at a critical moment in Lucid Motors’ history. The company has finally launched its long-awaited luxury SUV, the Gravity, which the company expects will ultimately be more successful than the aero sedan, which it has struggled to sell. Lucid Motors is also working on a midsize car that will be priced closer to $50,000 in 2026, though You’ll likely need to raise more money before that happens.