Lucid Motors reported a third-quarter net loss of $978 million, a 1.4 percent improvement from a year earlier, as revenue surged on record sales before the electric vehicle tax credit cutoff. Revenue rose 68 percent in the most recent quarter to$337 million, the Newark, Calif., automaker said Nov. 5. Deliveries grew to a record 4,078 vehicles. The automaker’s stock price was flat in after-hours trading. Lucid had two vehicles on sale in the third quarter: the Air sedan, which went on sale in late 2021, ...