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Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Lucid Group Second Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. Later, we will conduct a question and answer session. If you have a question, please press star 11 on your touchtone telephone. I would now like to turn the conference over to your speaker for today, Nick Tork, Vice President of Communication. Please go ahead.
Thank you, and welcome to Lucid Group Second Quarter 2025. earnings call. Joining me today are Mark Winterhoff, our interim CEO, and Tawfiq Boussaid, our CFO. Before handing the call over to Mark, let me remind you that some of the statements on this call include forward-looking statements under Federal Securities Law. These include, without limitation, statements regarding the feature financial performance of the company, production and delivery volumes, vehicles and products, studios and service networks, financial and operating outlook and guidance, macroeconomic, policy and industry trends, tariffs and trade policy, company initiatives, and other future events. These statements are based on various assumptions, whether or not identified in this communication, and on the predications and expectations of our management as of today. Actual events or results are difficult or impossible to predict and may differ due to a number of risks and uncertainties. We refer you to the cautionary language and the risk factors entering a report on Form 10-K for the year-ended December 31, 2024, subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, and other SEC filings, and the forward-looking statements on page two of our quarterly earnings presentation available on the Investor Relations section of our website at ir.lucidmotors.com. We undertake no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statement for any reason except as required by law. In addition, management will make reference to non-GAAP financial measures during this call. A discussion of why we use non-GAAP financial measures and information regarding reconciliation of our GAAP versus non-GAAP results is available in our earnings press release issued earlier this afternoon as well as in the earnings presentation. with that i'd like to turn the call over to lucid interim ceo mark winterhoff mark please go ahead thank you nick and thank you everyone for joining us in our second quarter 2025 earnings call i'd like to begin by expressing my sincere appreciation to our employees customers partners and shareholders your continued belief in our mission is what drives us forward every day
In the second quarter of 2025, we achieved meaningful progress on both operational and strategic fronts. We delivered 3,309 vehicles, up 38% year-over-year, now a sixth consecutive quarter of record deliveries. We produced 3,863 vehicles, up 83% year-over-year. As expected, ASP increased sequentially this quarter due to improved mix. However, gross margin was negatively impacted by tariffs, as to Feig will detail in his remarks. First, we've been sharing with you that we are in active discussions about partnerships beyond selling or licensing our industry-leading EV technology. On July 17th, we took a big step in this direction with the announcement of a partnership with uber and neuro on a next generation premium robotaxi created specifically for the youth on uber's ride-hailing platform this partnership combines the industry-leading software-defined vehicle architecture of the lucid gravity the scalability and proven capability of the neuro driver level 4 autonomy system and uber's vast global network and dynamic fleet management delivering a fully integrated robotaxi experience developed for comfort safety and scale our industry-leading efficiency and technology like our av-capable sensor suite redundant steering and braking systems and highly efficient compact and high power density motors help maximize uptime and reduce operating costs per mile key success factors in a successful robotaxi program the lucid gravity software-defined architecture makes it the ideal platform for third-party autonomy stacks as part of the agreement uber will invest 300 million dollars in lucid subject to regulatory review uber plans to deploy a minimum of 20 000 lucid gravity vehicles equipped with the neural driver over six years in dozens of markets around the world with the first vehicles launching late next year this is an important step for lucid into the multi-trillion dollar rebel taxi market but it's only the first step and while we are working with external partners on this initiative we continue developing our internal ADAS and AD capabilities, such as our recently announced hands-free driving software update, with more improvements to be announced. We're also leveraging our partnership with the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, or KAUST, to train our AI models for ADAS and AD and bring cutting-edge innovation from the lab to the road. i've been clear about our intention to monetize lucid technology through licensing deals or strategic partnerships and this announcement signals our right to win in new markets uber's investment in lucid is yet another example of a third party validating our highly advanced technical platform and we remain in active discussions with other potential partners second we follow through on our commitment to drive awareness for our products and the lucid brand last week when we announced timothy chalamet as lucid's first ever global brand ambassador chalamet will be featured in a new campaign promoting lucid gravity that marks another significant milestone in our commitment to raise brand awareness this first campaign of the partnership will launch in early september in addition to stimulating near-term demand this multi-year partnership with timothy is designed to anchor the lucid brand in popular culture ahead of our entry into the mass market with our mid-size vehicles now let me take a moment to go in depth to explain how these initiatives fit into our mission to not just deliver the best car in the world but also the best business since we started our respective roles taufik and i have dedicated time to aligning our priorities for the business we are laser focused on three important near-term priorities for lucid these are first operational discipline second building a distinctive scalable brand and third maintaining and enhancing a sustainable edge through our technology. Operational discipline relates to manufacturing, cost control, and practically every element of the business. As we communicated in our press release, our target is to produce 18 to 20,000 total vehicles in 2025. And as of the second quarter, we have produced just over 6,000. On this topic, I feel that it is important to acknowledge that we are not where we want to be with lucid gravity production relative to our target at this point in the year however our team has been working very hard all year to address bottlenecks in our supply chain and improve manufacturing efficiency i'm happy to say that we have overcome most of these issues and are beginning to ramp up lucid gravity production we believe we will significantly increased production in the second half of the year. The challenges we faced were multifold, but can primarily be attributed to first, the capacity of certain suppliers in our supply chain, and second, the availability of magnets originating in China, an industry-wide challenge. To the first point, we've been working closely with our suppliers to alleviate issues that could prevent us from producing the necessary volume to achieve our targets in the second half of the year. We've also implemented key initiatives that are focused on fostering enhanced accountability and data-driven decision-making. We are already seeing the benefits of this as we work diligently to improve lucid gravity production. Turning to the second point, to mitigate geopolitical supply chain challenges, our team was able to quickly integrate substitute magnets in production and, because of our nimble in-house vertical integration, this process took weeks instead of months. Software changes, manufacturing changes, and software-hardware integration all work together to make this happen. without our vertical integration and ability for our team to make quick changes we would have stopped production in q2 i'm happy to say that we believe this issue is behind us and we have secured enough magnets to meet our production target for the remainder of the year as we have noted before we have a strong commitment to our us-based manufacturing we believe this will make us more resilient and help mitigate the impact of tariffs and other geopolitical issues in that regard i wanted to highlight a couple of recent announcements that further support our position first in june we announced a preliminary agreement with graphite one to source natural and synthetic graphite domestically beginning in 2028 this agreement complements our existing non-binding supply agreement with graphite one that was signed in april of 2024. following this announcement we helped establish the minerals for national automotive competitiveness collaboration or minac a partnership among us critical minerals producers that are focused on supporting us-based manufacturing and sourcing we view these as necessary corrective steps to help insulate our supply chain from global volatility we also recently celebrated the opening of panasonic's u.s factory in de soto kansas panasonic is one of our key suppliers and the presence of this u.s factory will strengthen our domestic supply chain starting in 2026. our next priority is to amplify demand through brand marketing and partnership initiatives our team's hard work this regard has been on display through recent announcements over the past few weeks that I've already discussed. I'm pleased with the progress we are making to enhance our brand but this work is only the beginning. As I mentioned earlier in my remarks, in September we plan to launch a new Gravity brand campaign featuring Timothée Chalamet as part of our broader partnership. to further deepen brand affinity and trust we are expanding our efforts beyond traditional advertising this includes new brand ambassador partnerships with world-class athletes influential cultural voices and globally recognized creators who share our vision and values we are also developing strategic collaborations with brands and organizations at the forefront of sport and culture. These partnerships will allow us to tap in new communities and strengthen emotional connection consumers have with our brand. Regarding the scalability of our brand, many new customers are now experiencing lucid gravity in our studios and we're seeing a high order conversion rate for prospective customers once they experience the vehicle. In fact, our daily order rate has nearly doubled since display and test drive vehicles have been widely delivered to studios our final priority is to maintain and enhance our competitive edge through our technology engineering and technological excellence have long defined lucid's brand and we remain committed to this tenets as we grow the business just a few days ago we deployed a software update to our DreamDrive Pro advanced driver assist system. This update enables hands-free driving and lane changes and is also expected to be released for lucid gravity later this year. Recently, we also began production of the 2026 Lucid Air, which features a new battery pack for touring models that extends the model's EPA-rated range to 431 miles, compared to 406 in the previous model year. Notably, all 2026 Lucid Air models now utilize the same AC compressor as the Lucid Gravity, marking the beginning of further efforts aimed at part-communization across our vehicle lines. The Lucid Air Grand Touring demonstrates its range leadership recently by garnering the guinness world record of the longest journey by an electrical vehicle on a single charge additionally current driver named the lucid air sapphire the quickest car they've ever tested toppling the porsche tycan turbo gt visor the air sapphire set a zero to 60 time of 1.9 seconds and completed the quarter mile in 9.1 seconds. In Jason Kamisa's ultimate drag race on Haggerty, the Lucid Gravity Dream Edition with dual motors completed the quarter mile in 10.5 seconds, matching the quad-motor Rivian R1S. But where the Lucid Gravity truly stood out was an acceleration beyond 60 miles per hour, showcasing the superior passing power and highway merging confidence that define lucid performance the same lucid gravity dream edition can also reach 150 miles per hour faster than a corvette z06 according to current driver at the beginning of my remarks i highlighted our recent partnership with uber and neuro which showcases and validates that the advanced capabilities of lucid gravity provide an ideal platform on which to integrate ad technology looking ahead our mid-sized platform vehicles will play a crucial role in maintaining lucid competitive edge in technology these vehicles will have been meticulously designed to achieve leading product features and specifications with low cost enabling us to position our company for significant market expansion by adopting this approach we aim to strike a balance between cost competitiveness and high volume production while still preserving the premium attributes that our customers have come to expect from lucid technology leadership is the key enabler for this previously opposing combination a prime example of this approach is our atlas drive unit which serves as a cornerstone of our higher volume and cost efficiency strategy we are committed to enhancing our powertrain efficiency leadership while simultaneously achieving lower costs and maintaining exceptional performance lastly as you may know the lucid gravity was the first non-tesla vehicle sold to offer a built-in next connector and supports native tesla supercharger network access we have also recently opened this access for lucid air owners as well as of july 31st lucid air owners with an approved adapter in north america can now charge their vehicles at any one of the 23 500 plus tesla supercharger locations throughout the country with access integrated into their Lucid app. This is in addition to more than 30,000 CCS charges already available across North America to Lucid drivers. In closing, we are not simply building electrical vehicles. We are pushing the boundaries of what EVs can be. From the record-breaking performance and efficiency of the Lucid Air to the game-changing Lucid Gravity to our upcoming mid-sized platform, our technology continues to redefine what's possible but our mission isn't only to make the best evs in the world it's to build a great business around them that means continuing to drive innovation while also scaling intelligently building a robust supply chain and making a strategic decision that position us for long-term success we are entering a pivotal of new phase one where world-class engineering meets world-class execution and with the talent focus and drive across our team i truly believe we're just getting started thank you for your continued belief in lucid not just as a car company but as a company shaping the future of mobility and american manufacturing thank you mark and thank you to those who are joining us today I'd like to build on Marc's comment by sharing more details about our operational and financial performance this quarter.
I will also provide clarity on the strategic steps we're taking to position Lucid for the long-term success. In the last few months, our focus has been on execution, turning strategic commitments into measurable progress across production, cost discipline, and financial resilience. We have also taken meaningful steps to strengthen our capital structure and accelerate monetization of our technology. One of our most significant recent developments was our agreement with Uber and Euro, which represents far more than a commercial transaction. It is a strategic alignment with two leading players in mobility and autonomy who choose Lucid Gravity as the core platform for the next generation robotaxi. Uber has planned 300 million dollars investment in lucid subject to regulatory approval will directly support the development and integration of this program it reflects external confidence in our underlying architecture and is a validation of the broader platform opportunity we see beyond direct to consumer sales it also confirms our ability to create scalable enterprise value by deploying our technology in new verticals, fleet, autonomy, and AI mobility. In parallel, we announce our intention to implement a 1 for 10 reverse stock split. This is not a cosmetic action. It is a deliberate and targeted measure to ensure Lucid's equity remains accessible to a broader universe of long-only institutional investors. It also aligns our share price with the strategic trajectory of the company as we move into the next chapter of scaling our operations and deepening our capital market engagement. The reverse pit is expected to take effect in early September, subject to shareholder approval. Turning now to the numbers, we have delivered $259 million in revenue in Q2, marking a 29% increase year over year. We produced 3,863 vehicles and deliveries reached 3309 units up 38 compared to the same quarter last year this marks our sixth consecutive quarter of record deliveries despite the ongoing challenges facing the aev sector particularly in supply chain we maintained positive momentum and continued progressing towards our volume targets given the continuously shifting market environment we have decided to provide our production guidance as a range. Growth margin for the quarter was negative 105%, reflecting a $54 million impact from tariffs alone. This impact accounted for a 21 percentage point decrease in growth margin, offsetting the benefits from sequential improvements in AFP. While we anticipated this pressure, we're actively taking decisive actions to move margins back towards a positive trajectory. These actions include material cost optimization, improving production efficiency, and tighter inventory management. We also saw continued cost discipline across the organization while maintaining targeted investments in product and brand. R&D totaled $274 million for the quarter, reflecting higher spend on the mid-size platform and Atlas powertrain. SG&A was $257 million, a sequential increase as spent normalized following one-time reversal of previously recognized stock-based compensation expense in the first quarter. Importantly, we are continuing to make deliberate trade-offs across the business, investing where it matters and streamlining where appropriate adjusted EBITDA was negative 632 million dollars down 12 driven mainly by gross margin pressure we ended the quarter with 3.6 billion dollars in cash and investments and total liquidity of 4.86 billion dollars our financial position remained strong providing us the runaway to fund operations and execute our long-term plans capex totaled 183 million dollars consistent with our guidance and inventory rose to 730 million dollars reflecting lucid gravity production builds and preparations for ramp up looking forward we are navigating an environment that remains volatile and uneven. We flagged earlier this year the potential impact of tariff-related margin headwinds in the range of 8 to 15 percent. Based on what we know today and the mitigations we have already activated, including the localized sourcing, engineering substitutions, and vertical integration, we now believe the actual impact will fall at the lower end of that range we are also continuing to manage exposure to magnet supply risks through a combination of supplier diversification and in-house re-engineering the lessons learned during the lucid gravity ramp are informing our decisions as we prepare for the start of mid-size production in late 2026 and the policy front most of you are aware of the seven thousand five hundred EV lease credit will be eliminated beginning in Q4 of this year. We have defined countermeasures that will be implemented in Q3 to address this change. This next phase of our strategy will require us to scale with precision. The mid-size platform represents a critical opportunity to expand Lucid's addressable market, enhance manufacturing leverage, and offer a broader value proposition to customers without compromising on performance and efficiency we are applying everything we've learned from the lucid gravity to ensure this program comes to market with great greater and agility lower unit cost and shorter lead times lastly we are updating our annual production guidance to a range of 18 000 to 20 000 vehicles going forward we will provide production guidance as a range to reflect the potential impact of continuously changing market environment and external factors we are refining our 2025 capex guidance to a range of 1.1 billion dollars to 1.2 billion dollars this adjustment reflects a more focused investment approach prioritizing critical programs with the highest near-term return and long-term strategic value and deprioritizing lower return investments we remain committed to founding future growth and all other operational and strategic targets remain unchanged let me close with this at lucid we are committed to building a great company not just a great product that means scaling responsibly investing wisely and staying laser focused on the fundamentals quality cost and capital discipline. We are operating in one of the most dynamic and competitive industries of our time. What will distinguish the winners from the rest is not ambition alone, but execution. And execution is what we are committed to. Thank you for your continued belief in our mission. And with that, I turn it back to Nick to open the line for questions.
Thanks, Taufik. We'll now start the Q&A portion of the call.
Before we take questions from those on the phone i want to post the questions that our retail investors sent in through the say technology platform the first question comes from sean b how many current gravity orders are there we don't disclose the specific number of orders we've received however as i referenced in my prepared remarks customers are now experiencing lucid gravity in our studios and we are seeing a high conversion rate once people see the vehicle for themselves we are happy with what we're seeing and we remain supply constrained and not demand constrained we expect the situation will normalize soon our second question comes from policy is the midsize platform still on target for
production in late 2026 our delivery is expected to start in 2026 or 2027 and did the acquisition of the nicola facilities allow midsize to be brought forward at all the midsize is still scheduled for start of production in late 2026, and we are planning to unveil the vehicle next year.
Given that production starts in late 2026, we expect deliveries to ramp up throughout 2027. Regarding the Nikola facilities, while the facilities we acquired bring added capabilities, they will not impact the timeline of our mid-sized vehicles.
Our third question comes from Adrian D. How will the partnership with Uber aid and company growth and how big of an impact do you expect it to have?
The strategic partnership with Uber and Neuro is our entry into a large and very attractive market. As far as impact, partnering with companies like Uber and Neuro is another data point that validates Lucid's highly scalable platform and signals our right to win in new markets as we continue to pursue additional partnerships. This is the start of our path to extend our innovation and technology leadership into this multi-trillion dollar market.
Now we'd like to take questions from the phone lines. Operator.
Thank you. As a reminder to ask a question, please press star one one on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced. To withdraw your question, press star one one again. One moment while we compile the Q&A roster. And our first question will come from the line of Andres Shepard with Cantor Fitzgerald. Your line is open.
Hey everyone, good afternoon and thank so much for taking our questions congratulations on the quarter hey just a quick question on um asps just given the macro environment should we be expecting any changes to the midsize initial asps as they ramp up thanks midsize uh asps ramp up i think that is uh still some time out are you referring to gravity oh just on the midsize i know we haven't we're not there yet but just curious if you know as the macro worsens if you're expecting any changes to initial asps once it's available no no i mean there's there's no no plan uh and and no expectation that the asp
of the midsize will be will be impacted as a matter of fact i mean we have the the current situation um i personally and we as a company see this also as a temporary phase where you know we had a big hype on um evs in a couple of years ago and now there's more a uh you know a slowdown but you know we are fully convinced that EVs is the way forward and you know this will normalize over the next years got it that's very helpful thank you and just as a follow-up maybe for Tafiq can you just remind us the plans
regarding in the 2026 convertible that's coming up like remind us how you're planning on addressing I think the remaining 900 or so million that's thanks yeah hi Andres so I mean the plan is still I think we we touched quickly on it last time we spoke I mean the plan is still to to go to the market in the next coming quarters so I mean there's no no change to that so obviously we're carefully monitoring the market situation in order to take advantage of the best conditions, but it's something that for the moment we're planning for towards the end of 2025, early 2026.
Wonderful. Thank you so much. Congrats again. I'll pass it.
Thank you, Andres.
One moment for our next question. And that will come from the line of Stefan Gingaro with Stiefel. Your line is open.
Mr. Gingaro, if you're on mute, please unmute your line.
Okay. Sorry about that. I hit mute by mistake. Thanks for taking the questions.
What I would like to start with, if you don't mind, is can you talk about the approach, the current approach, and if it's changed to licensing agreements and kind of what you see the potential there for over the next couple of years? yeah i mean actually the the comment on that one would not change or has not changed uh compared to what i said three months ago because we have still ongoing discussions on that topic most of the other oems we are talking to they have other problems right now i mean the they're still very much focused on grappling with the uh the tariff effect and and those kind of things and so those discussions are still happening they're just progressing slower and we still see the the potential in those in those deals but as i said you know the last time would you like that perfect no background noise there um so but we also have now discussions and partnerships beyond this topic. And, you know, this is the Neuro and Uber deal is one example of that. And that's now what we are expecting to come to fruition more in the future as well.
Great. And I apologize for that background noise. The other question, just the update on how the new Atlas powertrain is coming and sort of your confidence in the development of that and the efficiency of that product. versus kind of, because you're just so well-known for how efficient the motor systems are. I'm just curious where things stand there.
Yeah, on track. I mean, to say it short, because obviously this is our next generation powertrain that will achieve, or we're targeting to achieve the same efficiency or even better at a much lower cost.
So we are fully on track with that at this point.
And yeah, looking very much forward to deploy this in the midsize platform as the first vehicle great thank you mark one moment for our next question and that will come from the line of james piccarellio with bnp paribus your line is open hi guys this is jake on for james um i was wondering if you could just quantify gravity deliveries in the second quarter and based on third-party data which is admittedly unreliable for lucid there were no deliveries in july so is there a hang-up uh you know like quality issue with the gravity delivery ramp and when should we expect to see material volumes
yeah well let me let me address july first that number is false uh and that's all i want to say about that it's totally false uh but when it comes to a number for a second half we're not disclosing this but we're definitely in the process right now of ramping up gravity and the second half of this year the gravities will actually be the the majority of our deliveries but yeah going back to the july number we saw that as well but yeah it's unfortunate that something like this is published yeah thanks for clarifying on that um and then capex uh is an area i think you guys have
done a good job um controlling your costs keeping it under expectations but even the revised guide it looks like uh you're implying spending more than double in the second half so could you just talk through some of the puts and takes there thank you well i mean as you can imagine i mean when it comes to the cap expand it's not a linear exercise so i mean between the moment you place your POs, you finalize all the blueprints and so forth.
I mean, there's a lag of time. So this is why, I mean, we see a CAPEX, which is backloaded. So most of the spent will be related to our AMP2 facility in KSA. So again, it's not a linear spent. What we have tried to do is to have a critical look at all the CAPEX spent proposal and make sure that we only spend where it deserves to be spent with the highest probability of return and the highest level of return, hence the revised guidance that we have provided. But again, yes, I mean, most of the spent will happen in the second half of the year.
Thanks, guys.
Thank you. As a reminder, if you would like to ask a question, please press star 1-1. Our next question will come from the line of Tobias Baith with Rothschild. Your line is open.
Hi. Good evening, Mark and Tufik. I hope you're both well, and thanks for your time. I have three questions, if that's okay. Two of us are Mark, and one of Tufik, and I'll ask them separately. mark in your prepared remarks you cited the supply of magnets as constraining production but output in the second quarter was at an all-time high and also above demand and i also understand that gravity in the air use the same amount of magnets so i'm slightly confused and i was wondering if i can ask for further details on that topic or if you can if you can tell me what i've missed yeah um well first of all that that problem is behind us so we solved that problem in q2 uh second half of the year uh we have secured enough magnets so we have no no
problem with uh with that anymore when it comes to your your second part uh that you know the gravity and the air use the same magnets that's actually not exactly true uh because what happens is that over from each model year and from each model we have minor changes in the the chemical uh you know setup of the magnets and and those kind of things so that is not not really correct so we had a shortfall for a certain trim and we were able to overcome this with a yeah some magic i would call it that our engineering teams then were able to do. We actually did this production due to that in Q2, and yeah, that helped us over that hump. Okay, I think I understand.
Second question for Mark.
About two years ago, I asked your predecessor to detail the timeline and the required milestones from then to starting production of the gravity to help me judge progress from the outside i was wondering if you could please do the same for the atlas powertrain and the first model based on the mid-size platform yeah i mean uh right now one key thing that we're doing is basically uh we're in in sourcing right now and it basically what i'm saying right now applies to the atlas powertrain but also to uh the mid-size so there's not really a difference because both of them will will come at the same time um then sourcing is important because we are you know sourcing right now for the so-called pv builds which is where the product validation builds so all of the engineering work will you know be very quickly be finalized and then from there we go into a validation phase with all kinds of testing, including winter testing later in the year, and then homologation. So those are the things that are following. I guess the background of the question is, are we on track with what we planned to start the production of the midsize in the end of 2026? And the answer to that, this is our current plan, has not changed.
Tissi, final question from me. How much do you step up in the write-downs on inventories? And losses on firm purchase commitments is attributable to tariffs versus building raw inventory to aid the ramp up of the gravity?
Yeah. So, again, first of all, yes, there is an impact on inventory adjustment on inventory for the next six months commitment of purchases. It's, as far as we see, it i mean an event which will hit primarily q2 because for the subsequent quarters i mean we will need to do a reversal which will offset the new provision that we will book provided that we maintain roughly an equivalent volume of of procurement so knowing that we have acquired and we did an increase in our inventory in q2 we should expect the volumes to remain roughly stable in q3 and q4 and therefore it will not arise any incremental impairment that we might have to book so we have stated that the tariffs the impact from the tariffs in q2 was amounting to roughly 55 million dollars. So this is actually a net figure, which is made of three different amounts. The first one is the actual tariff impact, which is in the range of 55 million dollars. Then there's the impairment that we book only in Q2. And then there's a netting effect coming from the reimbursements that we're getting, the famous 3.75% that we're getting. So all this leading to a net $55 plus million for the quarter.
Okay. So just crystal clear, at the 21 points of tariff impact, not all of it was actually realized in the second quarter. And you're still expecting some reimbursements to come later in the year.
So actually the impact on the second quarter is more than 21 percent so no no no i mean we will have reimbursement so this will continue it's a flat percentage which is function of the localization of the procurement activity and the volume so this will continue until the end of the year the only difference that will not happen or the only element which will not happen or will not have an impact on financial for the balance of the year is the booking of the impairment of the inventory because this will be netted off between reversal and provision that we book so that's why when you look at the the statement that we have or the guidance that we have given we are saying that the tariff impact on a full year basis will be on the lower end of what we have provided so We said 8% to 15% on a full-year basis. We have 21% in Q2, primarily because we had to book the first impairment on inventories. That will not happen for the subsequent quarters.
Okay, understood. Really appreciate the detail from both of you. Thanks for your time. Pleasure.
Thank you. I'm showing no further questions in the queue at this time. This concludes Lucid's second quarter of 2025 Earnings Conference Call. Thank you all for joining us today, and you may now disconnect.
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