Top executives at Lucid Motors are leaving amid a major change in leadership from the new CEO

Imad Dalla, a senior executive at electric car maker Lucid Motors, has left the company just months after being promoted to a leadership role, TechCrunch has learned.

Dlala’s exit is the first major executive departure since Lucid Motors selected Silvio Napoli as its new CEO in April. Napoli joins Lucid after spending his career in various leadership positions at escalator and elevator company Schindler Group. He officially started as CEO just last week.

In a statement to TechCrunch, Lucid Motors confirmed Dlala’s departure and said the company is “transforming its organization to accelerate innovation and strengthen execution under the leadership of CEO Silvio Napoli.”

As part of the shift, Lucid Motors said Vivek Ataluri, the company’s vice president of vehicle engineering, and Mark Solsona Palomar, vice president of software, will now report directly to Naples.

“Imad Dlala has chosen to leave the company to pursue other opportunities. We thank Imad for his many contributions over the years and wish him continued success in his future endeavors. Lucid remains focused on streamlining our organization and operations to fully leverage the strength of our team and we will announce further actions soon,” the company said in a statement.

Dlala declined to comment.

Dlala has worked with Lucid Motors for more than a decade, making him one of the company’s longest-serving employees and executives. For the past five years, he has served as Vice President of Lucid Motors and Senior Vice President of the company’s powertrain team.

In November, he was promoted to a role overseeing all “engineering and digital” at the same time Lucid Motors parted ways with its longtime chief engineer, Eric Bach. Bach has since sued Lucid Motors for wrongful termination — though that suit was recently put on hold pending arbitration, according to federal court records.

The company has been in a state of flux in the months since. Lucid Motors laid off 12% of its workforce in February, as TechCrunch first reported. It then completed its search for a new CEO after spending a year trying to replace Peter Rawlinson, who left suddenly in early 2025.

Dlala’s departure comes just a few months before the launch of Lucid Motors’ first mass-market car built on its mid-size platform, called Cosmos. The price of this electric car should start at less than $50,000, and give the Saudi-owned company finally a chance to offer an affordable and widely adopted car.

This new generation of electric cars is now also the cornerstone of Lucid’s deal to provide robotaxis for Uber. Lucid Motors has agreed to develop a robotaxi with autonomous vehicle company Nuro, starting with its Gravity SUV. The Gravity self-driving car should hit the road in San Francisco by the end of this year.