Major electric vehicle make Lucid has acquired sites that significantly expand its Arizona operations, giving the company a wider capacity for advanced manufacturing activities, development of related innovative products and improved testing of new components and systems. Steven Polzin, a research professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, part of the Fulton Schools, and director the TOMNET University Transportation Center, says the electric vehicle industry is facing a lot of challenges, but sees Lucid and other leaders in the field developing more economically viable products and improved manufacturing and benefiting from its ability to provide more products that help protect the environment more than fossil fueled automobiles.