There's a lot of great EV discussion here on HN but I don't see Lucid mentioned very often, which is a shame because they look like a real Tesla competitor and another company that could help bring mass commercialization of EVs, especially in the US where they're building them.<p>The TL;DR is that CCIV is a SPAC funded by Saudi money (about $4B worth) that just merged with Lucid (it was created for that purpose), so now the car company is fully funded for production and went public with their stock.