A Lucid VIN starts with 50E on Air passenger cars or 7UU on Gravity MPVs. Positions 4-8 carry the model, trim and drive unit clues, 9 is the check digit, 10 is the model year, and 11 is the plant. The plant we keep seeing is A for AMP-1 in Casa Grande, Arizona. Decode it on vPIC, then run recalls and a history report before you pay for a used Air or Gravity.
We ran Lucid patterns through NHTSA's free vPIC decoder in mid October 2026 because private sellers still paste Tesla-style stories onto Lucid ads, and because Gravity uses a different WMI than Air. Lucid USA, Inc. filed 50E for passenger cars and 7UU for multipurpose vehicles. If the 17 positions are new, start with how to decode a VIN. Clear campaigns next with our Lucid recall check by VIN, and keep our NHTSA recall check by VIN walkthrough handy for status wording.
Positions 1-3: 50E Air, 7UU Gravity
vPIC maps 50E to Lucid USA passenger cars and 7UU to Lucid USA multipurpose vehicles. A clean 2024 Air Touring VIN, 50EA1TEA5RA009283, decoded to Casa Grande, Arizona, AMP-1 plant company, sedan body, Generation 1 series, Touring trim, battery-electric, with an engine power field of 462 kW. A 2022 Air Touring pattern starting 50EA1TEA returned the same plant with a battery capacity field around 112 kWh. A 2024 Air Grand Touring pattern starting 50EA1GEA came back Grand Touring trim, still Casa Grande. A Gravity-class 7UU pattern pointed at Casa Grande as an MPV. If someone lists a Gravity with a 50E prefix, the VIN and the ad are not talking about the same vehicle. Early Air cars also show up with thin option lists in some auctions, so the decode is how you confirm you are not bidding on a different trim package.
Positions 4-8: trim and drive unit clues
The middle block is where Touring versus Grand Touring and related drive-unit clues show up when Lucid's filing matches the pattern. In our runs, Touring and Grand Touring filled the trim field on Air samples, and Electrification Level came back as BEV. Honestly, Lucid's data is blunt about Casa Grande when the plant letter is A, which matters when a seller invents a "California-built" story for an Arizona car. A blank trim field means you verify the window sticker and the car's software screen yourself.
Positions 9-11: check digit, year and Casa Grande
Position 9 is the check digit under 49 CFR 565.15. The 2024 Touring sample above decoded with a clean check digit. Position 10 is the model year (N was 2022, P was 2023, R was 2024 in our samples). Position 11 has been A for AMP-1 Casa Grande on the Air and Gravity patterns we tested. Match the windshield plate to the door jamb before you wire a deposit.
Recalls that follow Lucid VINs
Always run the full VIN. Most Lucid campaigns are software, and a few tell owners to park outside until the fix lands. NHTSA recall 26V-540 covers an exterior lighting circuit that can overheat on certain Air builds, and 25V-670 is another Air-era filing worth clearing by VIN. Look, a used Air that never accepted its OTA queue can still owe free work even when the seller swears "Lucid updates itself." Ask Lucid service for the campaign printout with the VIN printed, then match the software version on the car's screen to what the filing names.
We've seen screenshots with no software version and no VIN. Treat those as worthless.
After the decode: history, and what it costs
For model context, Car and Driver's Lucid Air page and Consumer Reports on Lucid help. A VIN decode will not show salvage, flood or odometer fraud. Those come from the feeds CARFAX describes. Pull your own copy. As of mid October 2026, a CARFAX report through us is about $5.50 as a guest or about $4.50 as a member, and a CARFAX plus AutoCheck bundle is about $6.75, against roughly $39.99 to $44.99 at retail. Confirm at checkout. We are a licensed CARFAX and AutoCheck reseller, not affiliated with CARFAX, AutoCheck, or Experian.
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