Lucid Motors chief engineer Eric Bach is leaving the company after more than a decade, the company announced.
Bach, who also served as senior vice president of product at Lucid Motors, has been with the company since 2015. He joined Lucid after spending three years as Tesla’s director of engineering, where he worked alongside former Lucid Motors CEO and CTO Peter Rawlinson. Bach spent more than 10 years at Volkswagen before Tesla.
TechCrunch has learned that Lucid’s vice president of engineering, James Hawkins, is no longer with the company after spending 10 years there. Lucid Motors declined to comment specifically on his departure.
The departures of Bach and Hawkins are part of a broader shakeup announced Wednesday. Lucid Motors Vice President of Quality Jeri Ford is also retiring. She will be replaced by Marnie Levergood, who joins the company from Scout Motors.
At the same time, Lucid Motors’ current senior vice president of powertrain, Emad Dlala, is appointed to oversee all “engineering and digital”. Dlala was already promoted once earlier this year and has been with the company since 2015.
The management shakeup comes as Lucid enters its ninth month without a permanent CEO following the sudden resignation of Peter Rawlinson in February. Former COO Marc Winterhoff has served as interim CEO since then.
The loss of Bach and Ford is the latest in a series of executive departures at Lucid Motors. The head of investor relations, the senior vice president of operations, the general manager for Europe, and the vice presidents of software quality and marketing have all left the company in the last year.
The changes come at a critical time in Lucid Motors’ history. The company has finally launched its long-awaited luxury SUV, the Gravity, which it says will ultimately be more successful than the Air sedan, which it has struggled to sell.
Lucid Motors is also working on a mid-size vehicle that will be priced closer to $50,000 in 2026, although it has said it will likely need to raise more money before that happens. On Wednesday, Lucid Motors announced that its majority shareholder – the Saudi sovereign wealth fund – had increased the ceiling of a loan agreement from $750 million to around $2 billion, which provides liquidity for the company through 2027.
This story has been updated with more information on the departures and the amended loan deal announced on Wednesday.
