Winning a drag race with a prototype is one thing, bringing down Tesla on its knees is a totally different story. You will need a leader par excellence such as Musk to conquer Tesla.
Not really. You just need to be a car company. Volkswagen will soon be the world's biggest BEV maker. That's not surprising. Volkswagen is the world's biggest car company.
The Lucid Air is a high-end, low volume luxury car. Lucid may not ever aim at the high volume car market themselves. What they might do instead is license their drivetrain to other manufacturers.