Recent content by hmp10

Very interesting. That must have been some hell of a contract lockup on the supplier's end. Is there no workaround available, such as shipping the cars with the current hardware but then offering a retrofit kit for customers who experience the fob problems?

But NFC is good only for communication between devices within 4 cm (1.6 inches) of each other. What is its relevance to key fob use?

As I've posted many times on this forum, I view cars as driving machines first and foremost. Software features are fairly low priority for me. I prefer to do my own driving and almost never use ADAS in any of our cars. I don't care a fig about CarPlay or Android Auto. In-car video games...

I can't figure it out, either. We had fits with getting into our first Air Dream (No. 154). The fob burned through batteries in no time; even with a fresh battery, getting the car to respond to it was a random outcome; sometimes the doors would open but the trunk wouldn't, sometimes the other...

It's a great review and well-earned by Lucid. However . . . there have been far, far, far too many reviewers who have been unable to get into their test cars. "Edmunds" still goes on about it a year after taking delivery of their car. It's been over two and a half years since Air deliveries...

If you just dropped a Lucid motor into an inefficiently-designed car, I agree the motor change would have relatively limited impact. But I think you're overlooking how much powerful, efficient, compact, light-weight motors have to do with the ability to optimize a host of other factors...

There's a good bit more to it than just the power. The compact size and light weight of the Lucid motors would give Genesis much more design flexibility, especially with a sports car. Also, the Lucid motors are more efficient than any other automotive motors and also put lower loads on the...

Well done. I've only watched the first one so far, but I have to say . . . that van hung in pretty well against the BMW. And it was interesting to watch the speedometer of the BMW climb up to 120 as Owen put the pedal to the metal. You could actually watch and absorb the climb as the speedo...

These "Road to Gravity" videos strike me as missing a couple of marks. I don't really understand the audience for which they're aiming. For people (such as many forum members) who are really paying attention to the technology, design, and detailed specs of the Gravity, they are far too skimpy...

Lucid has now released the fourth installment of "The Road to Gravity" miniseries. (At least I'm hoping it's a miniseries and not a multi-season series.) Am I alone in finding these low on meaningful content and consequently even somewhat annoying?

You have been very lucky. I haven't owned a car in the last twenty years -- including Mercedes, Audi, Honda, Tesla, Lucid -- that hasn't had multiple recalls. And, as @Steveinarizona pointed out, that is the exclusive province of dealers and manufacturers. And the Audi R8s I had could only be...

It's interesting that most companies that introduced hybrids ended up reducing their offerings as Tesla's BEV products gained market share, with the Models Y and 3 combined now being the biggest model sellers in the world. Other than reducing range anxiety for some people, I just do not see the...

Exactly.

In our almost daily series of discussions about the EV industry, today my brother and I were rehashing the (usually sad) fates of EV startups in the U.S. and the reasons for their varying trajectories: Tesla, Rivian, Lordstown, Telo, Aptera, Faraday Future, Canoo, Fisker, Bollinger, Arcimoto...

Posts from this forum routinely show up in Google searches. I suspect a lot of bloggers use this forum as a source, as there is quite a bit of interesting information on it that is sometimes hard to find elsewhere. I just googled "Lucid Gravity", and this came up: