I don’t think I explained my driving strategy for testing enough in this video so hope this clarifies: Strategy 1: Rip it to drain the battery low and try and find a 350kW charger to see big charging speeds Strategy 2: Normal driving into Grand Junction to simulate how a normal person would cruise with wide open roads Strategy 3: Gentler cruising over the Rockies getting the highest efficiency of the trip

We don’t have access to serious EA help. I have been stuck innumerable times trying to get a charge at Electrify America. It actually pushed me away from electric cars for long distance use and as of over 1 year ago I no longer take electric road trips. I’m glad you document the issues, because I have posted about this online and been called a FUD spreader by the Electrify America Stans. I invested almost $100k in a luxury car, had awful charging experiences, and been called a liar for documenting it. So freaking frustrating.

Even though some of these conditions or experiences can be stressful to most of us average people, your humor and demeanor always make for a fair review, a great experience and much less nail biting. Your reviews assist those interested in motoring technology to make an informed purchase or not, or to just learn about the newest technology in cars. Thx! Be safe.

This came at the right time. New road trip videos are one of the best ways to calm myself down and this really helped me out.

Kyle: "Little charger, you have no idea what's in store for you." Little Charger: "Hold my handle!"

Peter is the absolute man. Out of Spec roadtrips are some of my favorite content on all of KZfaq. Love you guys

I couldn’t imagine buying such an expensive car and truly worrying about chargers not working. There are so many great cars out there crippled by terrible charging networks. Fun video as always.

Road tripping in my Air GT I target arriving at under 10% and unplugging at about 50%. Driving at a more modest pace, that gives me an easy two hour driving stint between 10-15 minute stops. I don't bother with preconditioning and, of course, it's easy to charge a little more where chargers are sparse. When younger I would press on regardless, driving hours on end, but have found that stretching my legs every couple hours keeps my mind in the game on the highway and I arrive at my destination in functional condition. Since I would be stopping anyway, I find the Lucid has usually charged past my target by the time I find the bio-break facilities and buy a drink or whatever. Travelling in a Lucid today also means allowing a little time to talk to the gawkers.

What's the point of fast charging if it takes an hour+ fumbling to even start charging? Awful. Just awful.

Dude, he let you drive his car because you're a nice guy and you take care of someone else's stuff. Great review.

25:35 Honestly, I don't think there's much to optimize with trips in the Lucid. With easily 400 to 450 miles of minimum driving range, most people will just drive it like a gas car. A couple of 10 to 15 minute stops at a convenience store would be more than enough to drive 800+ miles in a day, which is more than most people would ever consider driving. The bigger factor is being able to find and identify faster chargers that are located conveniently for the trip.

Yesterday I typed Lucid into my search on KZfaq. Watched 2 of your videos then went for a walk this morning…and I’m staying in Palm Springs! I see the driveway where your trip began (across the street is the home with all the plant canopies). Small world! Thank you for your video. The electrify America network needs some help. I was thinking you were about to be stranded out there. Glad you made it back to Colorado. I’ll be watching more of your videos!

The house music is perfect for this! Evey other KZfaqr is clueless. Well done!

Thank You for All that you are doing for our Planet Earth.... Peace.. Shalom.. Salam.. Namaste .. 🙏🏻 😊 🌈 ✌ 🌷 ☮ ❤🕊

Went to Electrify America today and had no cell phone service. Couldn't swipe to charge and couldn't call customer service. What a wonderful feeling. Lol

1:04 Kyle freaks out about charging! The happiness in his voice is priceless. It's like hearing a guy crossing the desert finding water.

"My plan has backfired." Words of an honest man. Your review is excellent.

This is what’s needed imo 450-500 mi range. I loved the Lucid ever since I first saw it. I’m sure they’ll iron out the software issues but overall this car is it! My only gripe is the charging network and the anxieties causes wondering if the charger will work! I was anxious just watching you try to charge!

Really makes me appreciate the simplicity of Tesla.

Beautiful car. Can’t wait to get mines.

Kyle…this is why I’m not switching over. I do NOT have the same connections as you.

Reminds me of the 1970s gas crisis. Spending an hour trying to get the gas cap off after standing in a long line realizing that you had to put a locking gas cap on to keep people from stealing gas and not bringing the key. When you finally got the cap off you remember that your license plate has the wrong digit for gas today.

Great road trip Kyle, loved the nod to Spinal Tap “hello Cleveland” moment when they couldn’t find the stage…”this is it, this will be fastest charge ever……oh shit error”. Cool man 👍

Thanks again for a other GREAT video! 👍🏽👍🏽

thank you peter! wish he was my friend to! Also liking the solar panels on his garage roof. Hope to run into this peter guy on my trip to Europe

Please keep making more Lucid videos. Love to get real feedback.

What a cluster with these EA chargers. Patience is a virtue you have in spades!!! 👍🇺🇸

It feels like I'm right there ready to travel the rockies, gj m8, you are a cool guy.

Kind of glad I reserved the base RWD Pure Edition cuz it will be ready Q2 2023 and hopefully iron out a lot of these kinks.

Confirmed for me the charging network still isn’t up to the task. Also, at the Loves stop, I was surprised to see the $38 cost of charging if you were paying for it. Man, what happened to the days of “oh, it costs $8 to full charge?”

enjoyed the selection of background music for this video

The lack of dependability of the current CCS network is horrific. If I'd bought a CCS car instead of a Tesla it would have soured the entire EV experience for me. This is a little unacceptable for a product so expensive.

Gorgeous 😍 car indeed❗️ I am investing in this LCID stock while it is at a bargain price 😀

Great road-trip in an amazing car! Your 2nd to last charging experience confirmed everything I've heard and read so far about Charge America. It's hit and miss with this network. Although you were able to resolve the problem, most drivers probably would not have the same outcome. That's why I'm staying with Tesla.

I love what Lucid is doing . The car ALMOST looks perfect . My one negative thought is the lack of single tone paint or better options to match the roof and body more to my taste . I know the TWO TONE style they use is PROPER BRITISH UPPER CLASS adopted by Americans but even most brits don't like that style 🤣 Other than that I LOVE ... ABSOLUTELY LOOOOVE THIS CAR . I have been looking at EVs and before the Lucid it was the NIO that I really preferred , styling wise .

Thanks Kyle. Your charging crisis was exciting! Glad okay. You should teach anger management classes on how to remain calm when facing calamity.

A great video! Enjoy videos that give me a more "normal" view of the car. Getting my Touring next month. Did my test drive yesterday. Can't wait.

Hy from Romania Europe, my God Awesome Trip and Lucid is the best Cruzer simply Gorgeus Phenomenal Car , Thank you for sharing this Awesome experience and by the way Nice roads you have there and Beutifoul landscapes .

Great looking car, 450+ miles in EV is awesome. Looking forward to an affordable EV with that range.

Accurate description... thank you for the video. i am very impressed. Keep it up bro

Great video Kyle I really enjoy your road trip video keep up the great content 👍

The car looks like a VW Arteon! Thanks for the awesome experience you shard with us!!!!

20:20: I have a BMW I4, there is usually a curve to the charge on my car. It states I can get 200 kw and I have when it preps, but generally only for about the first minute, then it goes down to 160 or so, till about 40% then it goes to 120, and so on till it levels around 80kW. 29:50 This is what you can expect of Electrify America, (EA) 1/10 th of the time in my experience. Call the 800 number, they may answer in an hour. 59:00 Yep more EA errors. Car may be amazing, EA will throw cold water on that with figuring out plugging in and charging will work. 1:05:10 Nice. My top charge ever has only been DC 186kW for a few seconds.

I love how excited he is to have the fastest charging speed ever..... only after waiting over an hour to get the charger to work. 😂

Driving electric is an experience all on its own. You have great patience. They are good cars but we have a very long long way to go.

Excellent review & Koolz Soundtracks...🚗🎵🚙

Saw my first Lucid Air in the wild this past Saturday. It was getting a (presumably speeding) ticket from a NY State Trooper on the Taconic State Parkway :-) I thought it might have been you!

I had a problem last weekend with an EA - they were all "complimentary", but one stall/unit apparently didn't get the memo, and would fail to start. I had to move over to a different stall to get the charge to start. I was towing with my Rivian, and the first station was the only one I could park at and reach without disconnecting the trailer. So of course I had to disconnect the trailer to pull into a different stall to charge. But another Rivian pulled up as I was doing it - they had just finished a day of offroading.

This is the best color for me. I am heading to test it next week for the Gand Touring. Great Review

1:01:21 Sadly, these double activations are probably the #1 issue with Electrify America's reliability. It's connected to everything from FordPass issues to why some people have problems activating the charger with an app after they've plugged in (they don't wait for the handshake to complete). I know a number of your viewers jump on the CCS standard or the public charging infrastructure as a whole for being the culprit, but in my experience, this is all on Electrify America (and partly on the automakers who have attempted ISO plug and charge). As people start to get more experience with faster, non-Electrify America chargers, they might start to change their perceptions a bit.

Enjoying the coverage of the Lucid! Please be careful when someone asks you about the car when they're from other states (Alabama). If you laugh when they tell you where they're from, that laugh with a comment like "I don't think there's going to be many Lucids in Alabama", well it just comes off as snobbish. Also there's one area that reviewers never seem to address which is battery degradation and replacement costs. Although many will never need to replace their battery, it's environmentally responsible to keep a car for a long time (less CO2 to make a new car). That said replacement costs should always be lower on ubiquitous vehicles like Tesla. With high numbers of older Tesla's they will undoubtedly be in higher supply effectively dropping prices especially for used batteries out of wrecked vehicles.

And this is why Tesla’s charging network is king. Also, this video has way to many ads going on.

I understand but it’s funny charging before off to the hotel. That’s half the adventure finding the right hotel for the overnight charge. I’ve been traveling with my model 3 for the last 4yrs, the EV experiences have made our trips so much fun…. Opening up experience’s we never would have had. My experience with EV’s have confidence me that this is a tech/hardware race. With that said there’s only one company that has the hardware and the tech unrolling quickly……LUCID🔥💪😎 Few can see reality but best to all!!!

It stated on that screen for updates. Car must not be charging while updating. 44:05. WTH?

There are 3 ways to open chatgeport door. 1. Pres on charge port door with key in close proximity, 2. Press on dash screen far left upper corner, press on the center Ipad device.

I think I'd watch again just for the soundtrack!

Love how the screen moves out of the way love how it's got interior of car

This just proves what I always say and tell people. There’s no reason I’d ever switch to this silly push to electric for no reason. Stopping at gas stations is simple. No “authentication errors.” I really can’t believe people fall for this mess and spend money to deal with all of the errors and headaches!!! These progressive advances are supposed to make life easier and all I see is a mountain of complications! Life is frustrating enough. He is there screwing with a charger and I’d already be at the Arbys at the Loves station with a full tank of gas and working on my Curly Fries and second roast beef sandwich! Madness here!

I case no one has told you yet, there are two additional way to open the charge port - the charge button on the extreme left of the main screen or pressing your finger on the bottom right of the charge door.

I wish this had the new 2.0 Software update, just saw it's completely change on another channel. Hopefully it updates while you have this vehicle

Okay this is the 1st video I've watched, came over after listening to The Smoking Tyre, very impressive amount of information, gorgeous looking car with pretty good range, will be looking out for your next videos, Rj in Oz

24:05 There is a 350 kW EVgo site in Vegas now, but unfortunately, it's a bit off of I-15.

A great one man road-trip PG rated movie, so crazy I watched the whole thing I must be an official EV nerd.

ngl dude the scenary in this video has been amazing

Don't own an electric car and probably won't for awhile as I have a 2021 Honda Passport but man, I find your videos extremely interesting and informative and love the locations you drive to and from. Keep up the great work dude!

thanks for. Sharing your Road trip utah is nice

Don't know why but I get Chrysler vibes looking at this car.

I can't deal with this type of charging network. I did numerous multi day road trips in a Tesla, and charging has always been great. I would love to see these charging speeds on my car, but not at the cost of stressing every time that the charger will be on the fritz

A beautiful vehicle for sure.

Love your videos. You do all the test driving for us to decided.

Love the review, well done. Now, considering your issues getting the EV charger to even function, and given that you're one of the most experienced, knowledgeable EV operators in the country and still had major issues-when I get an EV it will be a Tesla, just for a reliable charging network. I've watched your other videos with similar issues-IMO CCS not ready for prime time.

Tesla is the only way to long trips.

About the Clam Shell , I think is for Over 50 y o. Easier to take & put heavy item in the trunk. You don't have to lift their weight as much in a trunk with a regular height in the back wall,.

Wow Solo drive to Colorado from Cali! Impressive.. The car is awesome crazy... its not lucid. haha. Great Great Great review enjoying your comments on the car.

Oh I know it too well. I don’t need to charge but I like to take a break and charge. 😂

Looks better then tesla love it looks great reminds me of christler 300 mixed with Honda accord good looking ride tesla is cool all the bells and whistles but I like to feel like I'm in a car not a laptop

That's one of the best looking sedans.

This is helpful because I’m interested in the 500 Plus mile range

Thumbs up to Peter for loaning this car.

No go on 350… seems like a very common scenario, like all the time. ‘Problem with todays road tripping’ I road trip a lot, so holding off on EV and opting for hybrid for at least another 10 years. Not considering a Lucid, I’d opt for EQS for about the same money. You had 500 mile range AND you’ve charged THREE times and only covered 346 miles??? What’s up with that? EV are just fine for daily commute but road trips no go. St George 405 miles and took forever to get there… I’ve done that trip in just over 5 hours - it’s taken you an entire day! I’ve made it to Ft Collins in 18 hours in ICE unplug and -plug again! Go to other signet! Lol! Good luck charger? Good luck to you. Could you imagine if 90% of gas station pumps didn’t work or only pumped at cups per hour not gallons per minute. Sad. 20 miles per minute - going to be there 2 more hours! 3 hours for a gas stop?? At least the Taycan can charge to 80% in 20 minutes…. You have to be the most optimistic person on the planet. I woulda lost my mind having to call EA and Lucid and then still have a terrible charge! I am not sure you ever made it to Ft Collins lol

What about the software to I’m very interested to see if it will show me how much charge I have left where I am going to charge the two or three they expect me to charge at I want to know if it is as good as Tesla. We must be able to map out are charging maps we must and for what they’re asking for that car I expect it to be easy to handle the charging situation when we’re going across country from Sacramento to Sebastian Florida I don’t want any problems finding a charge station

Great video, I was seriously looking at getting one of these vehicles this video makes it clear that they're not ready yet, I don't understand all the hype? I can't imagine doing an on-road business trip, or trip with my family at about 4 or 500 miles with all the stops and long charges?? Plus this vehicle still needs a lot of updating. also it's amazing how many things you start making the norm trying to accommodate the lacking of the car, under 5% climate control shuts down?! It's a hot summer day in your climates control shuts down because you're under 5% and that's okay? It's a super cold winter day and your heat shuts down?

Electrify America really pisses me off with the lack of reliability.

Personally the charging issues make me question electric power right now. I live in rural New York where charhing stations are not as close. New York is requiring all school districts to change to all electric school busses in 3 years. I can't imagine charging 70 scchool busses at onetime.

🚘 That music is perfect driving music ! What’s the name of the artist ? 🚘

I drive between 200 and 300 miles for work everyday . Depending on traffic and road construction etc . I spend between 7 to 10 hours a day driving just to get to work and back home

We are excited about this car

118 kw hr battery i've always heard. I'm sure it's very efficient but this drive should show that efficiency, I'm looking forward to hearing those stats. Enjoy the ride.

The Lucid is more money than I’d ever be willing to spend on a car, but it is still a beautiful car. Bugs and issues are to be expected on any vehicle from any start up, but hopefully they’ll be a little faster to resolve them than Tesla (who is still having significant build quality issues on cars that have been in production for 5 years or more). EA has been dreadful for the past few months. I’ve noticed many stations are on “free play” mode and have been for a while, which I have to imagine is because they know that their stations are really bad right now. It’s too bad, because they were doing really well for about 6 months at the end of 2021/beginning of 2022. I’ve had so many activation issues on EA while in free play mode, which my Ioniq5 had no issue with prior to them switching to free play. The manual preconditioning doesn’t bother me, but mainly that’s because my Bolt and Ioniq5 don’t (currently) have preconditioning at all. It would be nice if it would just start preconditioning when the nav shows you will arrive at a charger in 20 minutes, but having the ability to tell it to heat/cool the battery is nice.

I am one of these guys who said never ever an electric car ,period I have a Mercedes S550 and compare to a Tesla top model ,price wise the same but a lot better looking inside and outside. Then the Lucid showed up and I started to thinking about to try it out. Thanks to your video I know that I will stick with my S Class I can easy make 500 Miles highway driving and then fill it up in 2 Minutes ANYWHERE . These planing with getting off the interstate, finding an charging station ,then sit and wait that is just not for me ,and not forget it will not be free forever . One time it will be as expensive to fill up a gas car . There are so many environmental problems with the battery cars what nobody likes to talk about right now plus new ones will show up when we have EV cars only. Let's not rush in ,wait how it turns out in Europe when they will not register a new combustion engine car after 2035 ,for me I'm at an age that I probably will not be around at that or an engine will not be my main problem, till then I drive my 8 cylinder or whatever biturbo engine they will have

18:22 The lack of a DC pin cover is a serious problem. Most likely, Lucid owners will be parking indoors, but not always. L2 charging overnight at a hotel/motel could also be cause for concern, especially in winter weather.

Thank you!!!

Thanks Peter

Walmart in mesquite was limited to 65kw out of the 150kw and the same boot screen you shown for days on the other. When I went through on the my way to Page Az. I ended going up the road part Saint George Utah, Port Washington ut (exit qp) to get 164ka working Electrify America Station.

Man, internal combustion via fossil fuels seems so awesome after watching this. As does cash. Let’s never get rid of the option for either.

Epic video today man!

It would look so much better without the two tone. “Palm Springs” I chuckled. That car was born for Palm Springs.

it's a beautiful looking car

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All EVs should have this range. Makes life less stressful and saves you a zillion hours each year 💰💰💰