There is nothing a US investor likes more than a US start-up taking aim at a European technical leader that looks to be on its last legs. That is true, as long as you have the right investors in the room, and the subject is not emerging EV car brands. If you have investors that sit on the wrong side of the “renewables” argument, they will dump your shares, but not to worry, someone else will come along and buy them the following day. This is what happened to Lucid’s chosen special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) partner this week in the form of Churchill Capital Corp IV (CCIV), which revealed that it was planning a deal with Lucid to take…