** Electric-vehicle maker Lucid Group's LCID.O shares rise 3.7% to $2.24 in premarket trading
** Morgan Stanley upgrades LCID to "equal-weight" from "underweight"
** "We believe Lucid can re-rate with new leadership that has the potential to bring forth an executable AI strategy via partnerships," brokerage says
** Morgan Stanley says LCID has experience in developing, commercializing and servicing electric vehicles and can help prospective partners with managing their EV strategies
** One out of 15 brokerages rate the stock "buy", 10 "hold" and 4 "sell"; their median PT is $2.15
** Stock fell 28% in 2024
(Reporting by Harshita Mary Varghese in Bengaluru)
((HarshitaMary.Varghese@thomsonreuters.com))