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Lucid Motors\u2019 chief engineer Eric Bach is leaving the company after more than a decade, the company has announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n Bach, who also served as Lucid Motors\u2019 Senior Vice President of Product, has been with the company since 2015. He joined Lucid after spending three years as Tesla\u2019s Director of Engineering, where he worked alongside Lucid Motors\u2019 former CEO and CTO Peter Rawlinson. Bach spent more than 10 years at Volkswagen before Tesla.<\/p>\n TechCrunch has learned that Lucid\u2019s VP of Engineering, James Hawkins, is also no longer with the company after spending 10 years there. Lucid Motors declined to specifically comment on his departure. <\/p>\n Bach\u2019s and Hawkins\u2019 departures are part of a wider shake-up announced Wednesday. Lucid Motors\u2019 Vice President of Quality, Jeri Ford, is retiring as well. She will be replaced by Marnie Levergood, who is coming to the company from Scout Motors.<\/p>\n At the same time, Lucid Motors\u2019 current Senior Vice President of Powertrain, Emad Dlala, is being elevated to oversee all of \u201cEngineering and Digital.\u201d Dlala was promoted once already earlier this year and has been with the company since 2015.<\/p>\n The executive shake-up comes as Lucid enters its ninth month without a permanent CEO after Peter Rawlinson suddenly resigned in February<\/a>. Former chief operating officer Marc Winterhoff has been serving as CEO on an interim basis ever since.<\/p>\n The loss of Bach and Ford is the latest in a line of executive departures at Lucid Motors. The company\u2019s head of investor relations, Senior Vice President of Operations, Managing Director for Europe, and the Vice Presidents of Software Quality and Marketing have all left within the last year.<\/p>\n The changes are happening at a critical moment in Lucid Motors\u2019 history. The company finally launched its long-awaited luxury SUV, the Gravity, which the company expects will ultimately be more successful than the Air sedan, which it has struggled to sell. <\/p>\n Lucid Motors is also working on a midsized vehicle that will be priced closer to $50,000 in 2026, though it has said it likely needs to raise more money before that happens<\/a>. On Wednesday, Lucid Motors announced that its majority owner \u2014 Saudi Arabia\u2019s sovereign wealth fund \u2014 had boosted the cap of a loan agreement from $750 million to around $2 billion, which provides the company liquidity until 2027.<\/p>\n