Lucid Motors loses top executive as new CEO reshuffles leadership

Emad Dlala, a top executive at electric-vehicle maker Lucid Motors, has left the company just months after getting a promotion. Dlala had been with Lucid for more than a decade, making him one of the company's longest-serving employees. His departure is the first major executive exit since Lucid named Silvio Napoli as its new CEO in April. Napoli formally took over the CEO role last week after working at Schindler Group, an escalator and elevator maker. Lucid confirmed Dlala's departure and said it is transforming its organization to accelerate innovation and strengthen execution under Napoli. As part of that transformation, Vivek Attaluri, vice president of vehicle engineering, and Marc Solsona Palomar, vice president of software, will now report directly to Napoli. The company said Dlala chose to leave to pursue other opportunities and thanked him for his contributions. Dlala did not comment. Over the past five years, Dlala served as vice president and senior vice president overseeing the powertrain team. In November, he was promoted to oversee all of Engineering and Digital. This was the same time Lucid parted ways with chief engineer Eric Bach. Bach has since sued Lucid for wrongful termination, though that lawsuit was recently stayed pending arbitration. The company has been in flux. In February, Lucid laid off 12% of its workforce. It also spent a year searching for a new CEO after Peter Rawlinson departed in early 2025. Dlala's exit comes just a few months before the launch of the Cosmos, Lucid's first mass-market vehicle built on a mid-sized platform. The mid-size EV is supposed to start below $50,000. This car is also a key part of Lucid's deal to provide robotaxis to Uber. Lucid has agreed to develop robotaxis with Nuro, starting with its Gravity SUV. The self-driving Gravity is expected to hit the road in San Francisco by the end of this year.