Peter Rawlinson
CEO and CTO
Peter Rawlinson is Chief Executive Officer, Chief Technology Officer, and a member of the board of directors at Lucid. He is responsible for the company’s strategy and execution, as well as the creation and delivery of all Lucid products.
Before Lucid, Peter was Vice President of Vehicle Engineering at Tesla and Chief Engineer of the Model S, where he led the engineering of Tesla’s flagship vehicle from a clean sheet to production readiness while building the engineering team. Before joining Tesla in February 2009, he led vehicle engineering at Corus Automotive, an advanced technology consulting firm. He was also Chief Engineer of Advanced Engineering at Lotus.
Peter spent nearly a decade at Jaguar, ascending to the position of principal engineer, working on advanced body structure design, layout and packaging, including crashworthiness. He was one of the first to apply computer-aided design to automotive engineering and was an integral part of the Jaguar team that advanced the integration of computer-aided-design with computer-aided analytical tools within a simultaneous engineering environment, a methodology he applied and refined at Lotus and with other global automakers. He has a mechanical engineering degree from Imperial College.