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Peter Rawlinson did stints as Principal Engineer at Jaguar and Chief Engineer of Advanced Engineering at Lotus, earning a reputation that led to a phone call from Elon Musk asking if Rawlinson would take over as chief engineer of Tesla's WhiteStar project. He agreed, and what began as the WhiteStar turned into the Model S, and we see how that's turned out. In 2013, he absconded to a small EV startup then called Atieva, very soon to become Lucid, to oversee the same task: Create a world-defining electric car. Motor Trend's Kim Reynolds spent an hour on the phone with Lucid's CEO and CTO to find out how the company got where it is, and the status of the Air sedan.