Posted on 12/22/2021 8:54:22 AM PST by Red Badger
There's a whole host of reviews of the 2022 Lucid Air electric sedan popping up online, from long-form written works to quick walkaround videos and lengthy first-drive critiques. If you can only find time to watch a few, we encourage you to check out our own Tom Moloughney's first drive review, as well as the latest from Throttle House (above).
If you're not a Throttle House fan or subscriber, we suggest you check out the YouTube channel. Not only are its videos highly informative, but also hilariously entertaining. We will warn you, however, that there may be a few instances here or there that aren't the safest to watch at work or around children, mostly due to the occasional innuendo.
Throttle House opens the video with an interesting "SNL-style" skit, which is supposed to paint of picture of what the Lucid team may have gone through as it made final decisions surrounding the Air electric sedan, and how it might best compete with Tesla.
Clearly, Lucid upped the ante and did everything in its power to provide an electric car that wouldn't be cast aside as another "Tesla-killer" that failed to deliver. The Air boasts significantly more electric range than any production EV to date, lightning-fast charging, gobs of horsepower, an opulent and spacious interior, and so much more. However, is it a good daily driver, and how does the heavy cruiser handle itself well enough while carving canyon roads? Throttle House writes:
"With hopes of going toe to toe against the mighty Tesla Model S Plaid, the Dream Edition Performance packs 1,111 horsepower. Thomas and James are eager to see what the Lucid Air can do on a California canyon road. Will it be able to keep up with the sharp turns and bends despite being quite large and rather heavy? And just how livable is the interior on a day to day basis?"
Written words simply can't do this video justice. Get out the popcorn, sit back, relax, and be ready to be highly entertained. It's time to laugh out loud and learn all about the Lucid Air.
If money wasn't an object, and either car was readily available at a moment's notice, which would you choose, the Tesla Model S Plaid or Lucid Air? Share your pick with us, as well as why you think one car is better than the other.
Source: Throttle House (YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyXiDU5qjfOPxgOPeFWGwKw
Nobody buys Tesla, so the same nobodies will buy Lucid. Maybe?
MORE INFO:
https://insideevs.com/news/555634/lucid-air-fast-charging-analysis/
https://insideevs.com/features/553679/lucid-air-doug-demuro-review/
I see Teslas every day, multiple times a day, all different colors, so not the same one over and over.....................
I am seeing more Teslas even here in rural Indiana. They had me and my wife shaking our head. Where are they going to charge? That was answered for me recently. There are Tesla charging stations on the interstate and now being installed in homes.
Yes, same here. See plenty of them in So. Cal. Very popular with attention seeking crowd.
Northern California gasoline prices are down a little.
Yesterday, I filled up my wife’s ancient Lexus with gas at $4.65/gallon versus $5 something a few weeks ago.
Teslas are everywhere in my neck of the woods. Also, some local parking garages had 10 charger stations with a bright neon ‘Tesla’ logo on each one. Seemed like for about a year, they were mostly empty. Last week they were all full.
Tesla’s real
From https://www.chattanoogan.com/2021/11/28/439121/Roy-Exum-Nope-No-EV-For-Me.aspx (more info at the link)
If you want to inflict maximum damage on the environment, you support EVs, wind turbines and solar panels – all with their associated batteries. They don’t even come close in being as environmentally clean as coal, natural gas, and nuclear power. Likewise, their (EVs, WTs, and Solar) cost is going to be exorbitant. WTs and Solar reliability is poor.
Electric vehicles are taxpayer subsidized for the purchase of each hybrid or fully electric vehicle with a discount of about $7,000. Then, the government does not collect road-use taxes. Further, the new infrastructure bill provides several billion dollars of taxpayer funds to build charging stations. Do we really want our Government in the “electric filling-station” business?
“I see Teslas every day...”
Yup, they’re everywhere.
If money was no object, I'd buy a Lambo.
In the bay area they are like toyotas.
I’ve much enjoyed owning Tesla stock, but not a Tesla.
I think any interest I had in owning an electric car dwindled when the illegitimate Biden regime completely squandered our energy independence, reversed Trump’s industrial deregulation agenda, and totally screwed our manufacturing base.
Last year, I was thinking energy costs were going to keep decreasing - and Trump’s deregulation, border security and trade sanity regarding China were on the verge of ushering in a techno revolution.
Now it seems like things are going to really suck for a while - I don’t think we can count on better, cheaper batteries yet, nor do I see cheap and readily available charging stations on the horizon.
Gas is getting expensive too - but why change horses in midstream?
A neighbor has one and every so often I see a Tesla on the interstate.
On the road or beside it?.........................
Fantastic.
It’s a 1992 Buick LeSabre. With a battery!
Selling contracts on Tesla stock can turn the downside into upside, there’s literally 50 million in volume buying/selling contracts now in the atock market, so people can make money becoming a casino with the stock.
Not a financial advisor but I’ve switched to this because people keep buying my bad calls.
“Very popular with attention seeking crowd.”
Bingo...still the latest bit of “look at me” bling. I worked up the hill from Tesla HQ in Palo Alto and our roads have always been full of Teslas from the beginning. Our neighbor across the street bought the first edition Tesla Roadster around 2008 when it was introduced and he still drives it all the time.
Now we are in North Idaho most of the time and you rarely see one. A young couple moved in two doors down and they have one. We’ll see if they put it away for the winter — it’s supposed to be -5 in week or so.
They’ve made so many cars they don’t qualify for the tax credit anymore. They didn’t lobby for that tax credit, GM did. They make 2/3rds of all electric cars manufactured in America.
Lucid Air Electric Sedan:
MSRP: $77,400 - $169,000
Nah, I think I’ll buy a house instead.
Who wants to take out a mortgage on a car?
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