Top Lucid Motors executive departs amid new CEO’s leadership shakeup

Emad Dlala, a apical enforcement astatine EV-maker Lucid Motors, has near the institution conscionable months aft being promoted to a starring role, TechCrunch has learned.

Dlala’s exit is the archetypal large enforcement departure since Lucid Motors selected Silvio Napoli arsenic its caller CEO successful April. Napoli joined Lucid aft spending a vocation successful assorted enactment positions astatine escalator and elevator institution Schindler Group. He formally started successful the CEO relation just past week.

In a statment to TechCrunch, Lucid Motors confirmed Dlala’s departure and said the institution is “transforming its enactment to accelerate innovation and fortify execution nether CEO Silvio Napoli.”

As portion of that transformation, Lucid Motors said that Vivek Attaluri, the company’s vice president of conveyance engineering, and Marc Solsona Palomar, its vice president of software, volition present study straight to Napoli. 

“Emad Dlala has elected to permission the institution to prosecute different opportunities. We convey Emad for his galore contributions implicit the years and privation him continued occurrence successful his aboriginal endeavors. Lucid remains focused connected streamlining our enactment and processes to afloat leverage the spot of our squad and volition pass further actions soon,” the institution said successful a statement.

Dlala declined to comment.

Dlala had been with Lucid Motors for much than a decade, making him 1 of the company’s longest-serving employees and executives. Over the past 5 years, helium was some Lucid Motors’ vice president and elder vice president of the company’s powertrain team.

In November, helium was elevated to a relation overseeing each of “Engineering and Digital” astatine the aforesaid clip that Lucid Motors parted ways with its long-time main technologist Eric Bach. Bach has since sued Lucid Motors for wrongful termination — though that suit was precocious stayed pending arbitration, according to national tribunal records.

The institution person been successful flux successful the months since. Lucid Motors laid disconnected 12% of its workforce successful February, as TechCrunch archetypal reported. It past completed its hunt for a caller CEO aft spending a twelvemonth trying to regenerate Peter Rawlinson, who suddenly departed successful aboriginal 2025.

The departure of Dlala comes conscionable a fewer months up of the motorboat of Lucid Motors’ archetypal mass-market conveyance built connected its mid-sized platform, called Cosmos. This EV is expected to commencement beneath $50,000 and yet springiness the Saudi-owned institution a accidental astatine delivering a much affordable, widely-adopted car.

This next-generation EV is besides present a cornerstone of Lucid’s deal to supply robotaxis to Uber. Lucid Motors has agreed to make robotaxis with autonomous conveyance institution Nuro, starting with its Gravity SUV. The self-driving Gravity is expected to deed the roadworthy successful San Francisco by the extremity of this year.