How Do Car Seats Fit in a 2023 Lucid Air?
The verdict: The 2023 Lucid Air is an all-electric luxury sedan that seats five. With an EPA-estimated driving range of up to 516 miles, depending on trim level and equipment, it’s one of the longest-range EVs on the market. While its backseat has ample room for two car seats, we struggled to access the sedan’s lower Latch anchors during our Car Seat Check.
Does it fit three car seats? No. Although the backseat is wide, if a car seat is installed in the middle position, it would sit on top of a buckle, which breaks our rule about being able to safely fit three across.
Take a look at how the Latch system and each car seat scored below in our Car Seat Check of the 2023 Lucid Air.
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A Grade
- Booster: After removing the head restraint, the booster fit well. The sedan has short buckle stalks, but they stay in place when pushed, so they should be easy for kids to use independently.
B Grade
- Latch: The two sets of lower anchors sit just within the seat bight, where the back and bottom cushions meet, and require some muscle to access due to the sedan’s firm seats. The three top tether anchors on the rear shelf are easy to find and use.
- Infant: Some muscle was required to connect to the lower anchors. The backseat has ample legroom, so the infant seat did not impact our 5-foot-6-inch front passenger’s legroom.
- Rear-facing convertible: As with the infant, the placement of the anchors complicated installatio, but the seat fit well and the front passenger had plenty of legroom in front of the seat.
- Forward-facing convertible: After removing the head restraint to situate the convertible flush against the seatback, the car seat fit well. As with the other car seats, however, accessing the lower anchors could be easier.
C Grade
- None
Grading Scale
A: Plenty of room for the car seat and the child; doesn’t impact driver or front-passenger legroom. Easy to find and connect to Latch and tether anchors. No fit issues involving head restraint or seat contouring. Easy access to the third row.
B: One room, fit or connection issue. Some problems accessing the third row when available.
C: Marginal room plus one fit or connection issue. Difficult to access the third row when available.
D: Insufficient room, plus multiple fit or connection issues.
F: Does not fit or is unsafe.
About Cars.com’s Car Seat Checks
Editors Jennifer Geiger and Jennifer Newman are certified child safety seat installation technicians.
For the Car Seat Check, we use a Chicco KeyFit 30 infant-safety seat, a Graco Contender 65 convertible seat and Graco TurboBooster seat. The front seats are adjusted for a 6-foot driver and a shorter passenger. The three child seats are installed in the second row. The booster seat sits behind the driver’s seat, and the infant and convertible seats are installed behind the front passenger seat.
We also install the forward-facing convertible in the second row’s middle seat with the booster and infant seat in the outboard seats to see if three car seats will fit; a child sitting in the booster seat must be able to reach the seat belt buckle. If there’s a third row, we install the booster seat and a forward-facing convertible. Learn more about how we conduct our Car Seat Checks.
Parents should also remember that they can use the Latch system or a seat belt to install a car seat, and that Latch anchors have a weight limit of 65 pounds, including the weight of the child and the weight of the seat itself.
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