C'mon now some people like driving a car the shape of a bar of soap. I'd really love a pearl white Dove bar Lucid. You clearly must prefer the Irish Spring style of the Mercedes EQS (another bar of soap)
This is a great conversation point and one that is often overlooked. Many studies have been performed that indicate around the 120-minute (2 hour) mark, you should stop, pause, stretch. This is both for physical health but also mental awareness. Based on that, and average rates of speed around the world, 150-miles / 240-kilometers is a reasonable stopping point for anyone. At which point.....
Hahaha, I definitely prefer the irish spring green ? Don’t even get me started on the shape of that EQS though. But hey, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.C'mon now some people like driving a car the shape of a bar of soap. I'd really love a pearl white Dove bar Lucid. You clearly must prefer the Irish Spring style of the Mercedes EQS (another bar of soap)
With spirited driving, cold weather, 4 passengers, AC, elevation- a lot of your range goes away. Range is king for EV's.This is a great conversation point and one that is often overlooked. Many studies have been performed that indicate around the 120-minute (2 hour) mark, you should stop, pause, stretch. This is both for physical health but also mental awareness. Based on that, and average rates of speed around the world, 150-miles / 240-kilometers is a reasonable stopping point for anyone. At which point.....
Most batteries charge best 10-80% SOC -- so at worst, you only need a car that does around 220 real-world miles (70% of that is 150 miles, or 10-80% sweet spot). Anything more is not needed. At that point, efficiency does help if the car also charges fast, but those are all dynamic issues.
Dynamic in the sense that some cars have bigger batteries to overcome inefficiency. Some cars are more efficient but less powerful or fun to drive. Some cars charge faster (800-900V versus 400V) which stresses the battery but also can overcome shortcomings. We are on the cusp of big battery tech changes that will make ALL of this moot.
I'd argue that 95% of the time people driving their EV are charging at home or overnight, and the DC charging and total range do not matter. For those few times a year it does matter, I agree that the range is often overrated. We have driven our Volvo XC40 (~215 miles of range) on trips that were over 1,000 miles in each direction, without any issues.
Spirited driving a 2.7 tons EV with 4 passengers on winding roads in cold weather is not safe even in Ferrari. Agree, Lucid its a great EV built by a poorly managed company. My stock investment and many others is worth nothing today, luckily I sold out most of the stocks when value started going down.
Have you any idea why? It is a mystery to me.
Thank you for aknowledging the real engineering behind Lucid. Yes, great EV- best EV technology out there! So is the Taycan if you want a sports EV. Its a new company like Rivian, just needs time- a few years to establish.
If you had bothered to read the other threads on this forum about Lucid you would have seen that there is plenty of praise for the engineering that went into the vehicle. But you didn't do that. Instead you stood on a soap box and told us what should be most important to us as EV owners and then proceeded to essentially call us luddites (not "true auto enthusiasts"). Finally you revealed that you had an agenda the whole time stating "I wanted to prove myself right".
This trip from the summer was without a single stop (unless you count being stationary on I-95).
If I adopted that approach, my carpool partner for tomorrow's trip would ... never be my carpool partner again.
