By: ICN Bureau
Last updated : July 18, 2025 7:39 pm
Unique color effects use PPG ANDARO pigment nanodispersion technology
PPG has collaborated with electric vehicle (EV) maker Lucid Motors to develop unique exterior color effects for Lucid Motor’s luxury EV ranges using the PPG Andaro pigment nanodispersion technology. The technology provides dramatically higher chroma, or color intensity, as well as increased transparency and clarity.
The companies used the technology to develop a series of unique colors for the Lucid Air sedan and Lucid Gravity SUV ranges, including Zenith Red, the luxurious and popular garnet hue unique to Lucid Motors. It uses a high concentration of PPG Andaro pigment in both the basecoat and tinted clearcoat layer, including black to add depth
The color offerings for the Lucid Air range also include Stellar White, which surpasses the intensity of other white tri-coats with a clean bright hue and a fine silky mica layer, and Cosmos Silver and Quantum Grey fine metallics, which use thin-milled and fine pearl products to achieve subtle silky effects.
The Lucid Gravity range is offered in a series of high-travel liquid metallics that reference key colors in California landscape and unique special effects. These include Lunar Titanium, which includes fine yellow pearl to create a warmer, sun-influenced highlight – its travel index is very high due to the use of thin-milled effect pigments. Aurora Green uses a multilayer thin-film flake composed of magnesium fluoride and aluminum to produce a diffractive rainbow effect, while Supernova Bronze uses a vacuum metallized pigment to create a true bronze hue with a chrome metallic effect.+