Lucid Motors takes a prototype Air EV on an 800-mile California road trip - Roadshow

Silicon Valley EV startup Lucid Motors has been hard at work over the past year, gearing up for what was supposed to be the company's official unveiling of a production-spec version of its Lucid Air luxury EV sedan in New York in the coming weeks.

Specifically, it's making moves 400 miles at a time, if a video released by the company on Thursday is to be believed.

In the video, two engineers drive from Silicon Valley, down California's coast and into Los Angeles on a single charge.

Now, leaving aside all the cheeky social media tie-ins and message sounds that Lucid tossed in the video, it's a pretty neat look into one of the new crop of high-end electric vehicles that we're most excited about. .