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SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2025
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Basis of Presentation and Principles of Consolidation
The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements included herein have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) and applicable rules and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) regarding interim financial reporting. Certain information and disclosures normally included in the financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP have been condensed or omitted pursuant to such rules and regulations. These unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and notes included in the Company’s Form 10-K filed with the SEC on February 25, 2025.
In management’s opinion, these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared on the same basis as the annual financial statements and reflect all adjustments, which include normal recurring adjustments, necessary for the fair statement of the Company’s financial position as of June 30, 2025 and the results of operations for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024. The results of operations for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the full year ending December 31, 2025 or any other future interim or annual period.
The condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries. All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
Segment Reporting
Operating segments are defined as components of an entity for which separate financial information is available and that is regularly reviewed by the Chief Operating Decision Maker (“CODM”) in deciding how to allocate resources to an individual segment and in assessing performance. The Company’s CODM is its Chief Executive Officer. The Company has determined that it operates in one operating and one reportable segment, as the CODM reviews financial information presented on a consolidated basis for purposes of making operating decisions, allocating resources, and evaluating financial performance.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Significant estimates, assumptions and judgments made by management include, among others, inventory valuation, warranty reserve, useful lives of property, plant and equipment, fair value of common stock warrants, fair value of derivative liabilities associated with the Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock, estimates of residual value guarantee (“RVG”) liability, deferred revenue related to technology access fees and over-the-air (“OTA”) software updates, sales return reserves, assumptions used to measure stock-based compensation expense, income taxes, and estimated incremental borrowing rates for assessing operating and finance leases. These estimates and assumptions are based on management’s best estimates and judgment. Management evaluates its estimates and assumptions on an ongoing basis using historical experience and other factors, including the current economic environment, which management believes to be reasonable under the circumstances. The Company adjusts such estimates and assumptions when facts and circumstances dictate. Changes in those estimates resulting from continuing changes in the economic environment will be reflected in the financial statements in future periods.
Reclassification
Certain prior-period amount has been reclassified in the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements and notes thereto in order to conform to the current period presentation.
Cash, Cash Equivalents and Restricted Cash
The Company considers all highly liquid investments with an original maturity at the date of purchase of three months or less to be cash equivalents.
The following table provides a reconciliation of cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash to amounts shown in the statements of cash flows (in thousands):
June 30,
2025
December 31,
2024
Cash and cash equivalents$1,795,719 $1,606,865 
Restricted cash included in other current assets
13 14 
Restricted cash included in other noncurrent assets
2,166 173 
Total cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash$1,797,898 $1,607,052 
Accounts Receivable, Net
Accounts receivable consists of receivables from our customers and from financial institutions offering financing products to our customers for the sale of vehicles, sales of powertrain kits, services, and regulatory credits. The Company provides an allowance against accounts receivable for any potential uncollectible amounts. The Company recorded immaterial allowance for credit losses as of June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024.
Concentration of Credit Risk
Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to concentration of credit risk consist of cash, cash equivalents, investments and accounts receivable. The Company places its cash primarily with domestic financial institutions that are federally insured within statutory limits, but its deposits exceed federally insured limits. As of June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, accounts receivable from the EV purchase agreement with the Government of Saudi Arabia, a related party of the Public Investment Fund (“PIF”), which is an affiliate of Ayar, as represented by the Ministry of Finance (the “EV Purchase Agreement”), represented 50.7% and 51.7% of the total accounts receivable balance, respectively. See Note 16 “Related Party Transactions” for more information.
Concentration of Supply Risk
The Company is dependent on its suppliers, the majority of which are single-source suppliers. The inability of these suppliers to deliver necessary components of its products according to the schedule and at prices, quality levels and volumes acceptable to the Company, whether due to changes or uncertainties in trade policies, the imposition or proposed imposition of tariffs, threat of trade war or otherwise, or its inability to efficiently manage these components, or the unavailability of stable domestic suppliers, could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s results of operations and financial condition.
Revenue from Contracts with Customers
Vehicle Sales
Vehicle Sales without Residual Value Guarantee
Vehicle sales revenue is generated from the sale of EVs to customers. Vehicle sales without RVG totaled $64.3 million and $99.5 million during the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, respectively, and $81.9 million and $149.4 million for the same periods in the prior year, respectively. There are two performance obligations identified in vehicle sale arrangements. These are the vehicle including an onboard advanced driver assistance system (“ADAS”), and the right to unspecified OTA software updates to be provided as and when available over the term of the basic vehicle warranty, which is generally four years. Payment is typically received at the time of delivery or shortly after delivery of the vehicle to the customer, except for vehicle sales under the EV Purchase Agreement. The Company recognizes revenue related to the vehicle when the customer obtains control of the vehicle which occurs at a point in time either upon completion of delivery to the agreed upon delivery location or upon pick up of the vehicle by the customer. As the unspecified OTA software updates are provided when-and-if they become available, revenue related to OTA software updates is recognized ratably over the basic vehicle warranty term, commencing when control of the vehicle is transferred to the customer.
At the time of revenue recognition, the Company reduces the transaction price and records a sales return reserve against revenue for estimated variable consideration related to future product returns. Return rate estimates are based on historical experience and the sales return reserve balance was not material as of June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024.
Vehicle Sales with Residual Value Guarantee
The Company provides an RVG to its commercial banking partners in connection with its vehicle leasing program. Vehicle sales with RVG totaled $132.8 million and $265.9 million during the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, respectively, and $118.7 million and $190.9 million for the same periods in the prior year, respectively. Under the vehicle leasing program, the Company generally receives payment for the vehicle sales price at the time of delivery or shortly after the delivery. The Company recognizes revenue when control transfers upon delivery when the consumer-lessee takes physical possession of the vehicle, and bifurcates the RVG at fair value and accounts for it as a guarantee liability. The remaining amount of the transaction price is allocated among the performance obligations, including the vehicle, the right to unspecified OTA software updates and remarketing activities, in proportion to the standalone selling price of the Company’s performance obligations. Any fees or incentives that are paid or payable by the Company to commercial banking partners are recognized as a reduction to vehicle sales revenue. The guarantee liability represents the estimated amount the Company expects to pay at the end of the lease term. The Company is released from residual risk upon either expiration or settlement of the RVG. The Company evaluates variables such as third-party residual value publications, risk of future price deterioration due to changes in market conditions and reconditioning costs to determine the estimated RVG liability. The Company recorded $77.3 million and $58.0 million of RVG liabilities as of June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively. As the Company accumulates more data related to the resale value of our vehicles or as market conditions change, there could be material changes to the estimated guarantee liabilities. The maximum potential amount of future payments (in excess of RVG liabilities recorded) that the Company could be required to make was $524.6 million and $401.1 million as of June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.
Vehicle Operating Lease Revenue
The Company accounts for sales of vehicles with repurchase obligations as operating leases. The Company sells vehicles primarily to rental companies with an obligation to repurchase the vehicles at an agreed upon repurchase price. The Company records the difference between the proceeds received and the agreed upon repurchase price as vehicle leasing revenue on a straight-line basis over the term of the lease. Deferred leasing revenue and repurchase obligation were recorded in other current liabilities and other long-term liabilities in the condensed consolidated balance sheets, and were not material as of June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024. The operating lease revenue was not material for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024.
Sale and Leaseback Transactions
The Company enters into sales and leaseback transactions in which the Company transfers control of vehicles to rental companies and simultaneously leases them back as operating leases. The Company recognizes revenue related to the vehicles under the arrangement when the rental companies obtain control of the vehicles and separately recognize the leaseback obligations based on the present value of the future payments to the rental companies. The Company also records right-of-use assets which are amortized over the term of the leaseback. Operating lease expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the term of the leaseback.
The Company recorded revenue from sale and leaseback transactions of $19.0 million and $44.9 million during the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, respectively, and $0.3 million and $6.8 million for the same periods in the prior year, respectively. Operating lease expenses were not material.
Used Vehicle Sales
Used vehicle sales revenue is generated from the sale of used Lucid vehicles. The revenue from sales of used Lucid vehicles was not material for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024.
Vehicle Sales Deferred Revenue
As of June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the Company recorded $65.6 million and $53.3 million of total deferred revenue from all vehicle sales primarily related to OTA and remarketing activities for vehicle sales, respectively. The Company recorded $23.9 million and $18.5 million of the total deferred revenue within other current liabilities and the remaining $41.7 million and $34.8 million within other long-term liabilities in the condensed consolidated balance sheets as of June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively. Revenue recognized that was included in the deferred revenue at the beginning of the period was not material during the three and six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024.
Other
Other consists primarily of revenue from non-warranty after-sales vehicle services and parts, sales of battery pack systems, powertrain kits, retail merchandise, and regulatory credits, and sales of non-Lucid vehicles acquired as part of trade-in program. The Company generates regulatory credits revenue from the sale of tradable credits the Company earns under various regulations. This include credits related to zero emission vehicles and greenhouse gas, and the Corporate Average Fuel Economy credits. Regulatory credit revenue totaled $18.7 million and $50.2 million during the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, respectively, and $12.1 million and $17.5 million for the same periods in the prior year, respectively. The revenue from sales of non-Lucid vehicles was not material for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024.
Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock
Accounting for the redeemable convertible preferred stock requires an evaluation to determine if liability classification is required under Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 480-10. Liability classification is required for freestanding financial instruments that are (1) subject to an unconditional obligation requiring the issuer to redeem the instrument by transferring assets, such as those that are mandatorily redeemable, (2) instruments other than equity shares that embody an obligation of the issuer to repurchase its equity shares, or (3) certain types of instruments that obligate the issuer to issue a variable number of equity shares.
Securities that do not meet the scoping criteria to be classified as a liability under ASC 480 are subject to redeemable equity guidance, which prescribes securities that may be subject to redemption upon an event not solely within the Company’s control to be classified as temporary equity. Securities classified in temporary equity are initially measured at the proceeds received, net of issuance costs and excluding the fair value of bifurcated embedded derivatives, if any. Subsequent measurement of the carrying value of the redeemable convertible preferred stock is required as the instrument is probable of becoming redeemable. The Company accretes the redeemable convertible preferred stock to its redemption value. In certain circumstances, the redemption price may vary based on changes in stock price, in which case the Company recognizes changes in the redemption value immediately as they occur and adjust the carrying value of the security to equal the then current maximum redemption value at the end of each reporting period.
Derivative Liabilities
The Company evaluates all of its financial instruments, including convertible notes and redeemable convertible preferred stock, to determine if such instruments are derivatives or contain features that qualify as embedded derivatives. The Company applies significant judgment to identify and evaluate complex terms and conditions in these contracts and agreements to determine whether embedded derivatives exist. Embedded derivatives must be separately measured from the host contracts if all the requirements for bifurcation are met. The assessment of the conditions surrounding the bifurcation of embedded derivatives depends on the nature of the host contract. Bifurcated embedded derivatives are recognized at fair value, with changes in fair value recognized in the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss at each reporting period end. Bifurcated embedded derivatives are classified as a separate liability in the condensed consolidated balance sheet.
The Company’s derivative liabilities are related to the conversion features embedded in the Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock. See Note 8 “Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock” for more information.
Except for the policies described above, there have been no significant changes to accounting policies during the three and six months ended June 30, 2025.
Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted
In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU No. 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures, which requires incremental annual income tax disclosures. This amendment includes disclosures of specific categories in the rate reconciliation and additional information for reconciling items that meet a quantitative threshold; income taxes paid (net of refunds received) disaggregated by federal, state, and foreign taxes, and also disaggregated by individual jurisdictions that meet a quantitative threshold; income (or loss) from continuing operations before income tax expenses (or benefit) disaggregated between domestic and foreign; and income tax expense (or benefit) from continuing operations disaggregated by federal, state and foreign. The guidance is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024. Early adoption is permitted and should be applied prospectively (with retrospective application permitted). The Company is evaluating the impact of this amendment and does not expect a material impact to the related financial statement disclosures.
In March 2024, the SEC issued its final rule that requires certain climate-related disclosures in annual reports, including governance, oversight, and risk management processes on material climate-related risks; material impact of climate risks on the Company’s strategy, business model, and outlook; material climate targets and goals; and material financial statements impacts due to severe weather events and other natural conditions. In April 2024, the SEC stayed implementation of the final rule pending completion of judicial review. In March 2025, the SEC stated that it has ended its defense of the rule. The Company continues to monitor the status of these rules.
In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU No. 2024-03, Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses, which requires disclosure of specified information about certain costs and expenses (such as purchases of inventory, employee compensation, depreciation, and amortization) within the relevant expense captions presented on the face of the statements of operations and comprehensive loss. The guidance is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim reporting periods within annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027. Early adoption is permitted, and should be applied either prospectively or retrospectively. The Company is evaluating the impact of this amendment to the related financial statement disclosures.
The Company has considered all other recently issued accounting pronouncements and does not believe the adoption of such pronouncements will have a material impact on its financial statements or notes thereto.