Lucid SVP Emad Dlala Departs After More Than a Decade as CEO Napoli Reshuffles Ahead of Sub-$50,000 Cosmos Launch

Emad Dlala, Lucid Motors' senior vice president of engineering and digital, has left the electric-vehicle maker, TechCrunch reported June 9, in the first major senior-management departure since Silvio Napoli was named chief executive in April. Lucid confirmed the exit, saying Dlala 'has elected to leave the company to pursue other opportunities' and thanking him 'for his many contributions over the years.' Dlala spent more than a decade at Lucid and for the past five years ran its powertrain organization as vice president and then senior vice president; he was promoted to the broader engineering-and-digital role in November 2025, just months before his exit.

As part of what Lucid described as a transformation to 'accelerate innovation and strengthen execution,' vice president of vehicle engineering Vivek Attaluri and vice president of software Marc Solsona Palomar will now report directly to Napoli, the former Schindler Group executive. The shake-up comes months ahead of the launch of Cosmos, Lucid's first mass-market vehicle on its new midsize platform, slated to start below $50,000, and as the company works toward robotaxi deployments using its Gravity SUV in San Francisco by the end of 2026.