Small sample for Air Touring 157 miles 3.91 mi/kWh

[MattNet]

Not a huge sample but got a new Lucid Air Touring 2025 and drove it across the Phoenix Metro area and back. So pretty ideal situation. Relatively flat and temperature outside was about 91 degrees. Here's a breakdown of what I got.

I missed the first few miles heading out before starting the trip computer so each half won't be equal, but caught most of it.

For context I have the 19" aero wheels and this car is brand new, only about 90 miles on it when I started this

Full round trip (minus the first few miles), this includes only about 3 miles of surface streets in between and keeping the AC running while in a McDonalds for 40 min or so
151.2 miles
3.91 mi/kWh

Trip A (to the location)
67 miles
3.88 mi/kWh
Did about the first half at 80-83 mph, then thing slowed for the last half to about 70-75 mph or so

Trip B (return from the location)
78.7 miles
3.94 mi/kWh
22% used (forgot to track the percent on the way out)
Coming back had a little more traffic, was mostly around 65-75 mph

Honestly got better results than expected, especially going out where we were 80+ for about half the trip.

 

[MattNet]

Just for extra context, I've done this route multiple times in my old Tesla Model Y Performance and it took about 32-35% battery and got only about 2.7-3.0 mi/kWh.

At these efficiencies the Lucid AT would hit about 360 miles of range or 89% of EPA and the Model Y P would be 210-230 miles or 75-83% of EPA. Though more importantly for me the Lucid AT has about 130-150 more miles of range.

 

[MattNet]

Have done this route twice more now.

1st time a couple weeks ago
Again about 75 miles each way, didn't record as many details but got 3.6-3.8 mi/kWh. Was 3.8 until the last 15 minutes or so where we sped up a lot and it got a bit hotter.

2nd time just a couple days ago
We had our AC blasting at a fan level about 8-10 and temp at 68 (it's getting hot here in the Phoenix, AZ summer so want to be comfortable)
Trip to destination, 75 miles
20% battery used, 4.15 mi/kWh !

That's the best efficiency I've gotten yet. Honestly it was probably really 4.2 mi/kWh since I forgot to look at the efficiency until we got back in the car and we were pretty close probably trigger the unlock & AC.

We drove out there at a pretty solid 75 mph fairly constantly almost all on freeway. We started the drive (which took about 1 hour 20min - 30min) about 7AM to try and beat morning commute traffic crossing such a large area of this metro. So we avoided most traffic but couldn't really go faster than 75mph. Temperatures outside were about 85-90 degrees on the way out.

The way back:
3.7 mi/kWh

I'd say we went pretty solid 75mph as well, a couple slowdowns at freeway junctions, but nothing major. The big difference was the temp outside went from about 103-110 by the end so must have been all the energy to compensate with the AC. The AC was running quite loud at the end too. Still great efficiency overall, but that roughly 4.2 on the way out was really close to EPA.

 

[Ampere]

I always thought very high temperatures would lessen range. Yet yesterday we drove or 2023 Air Touring 288 miles in 98 degree temps (normal for you AZ folks, hot for us in Illinois) and scored 4.3 round-trip with mixed speeds of 60 mph on a state highway and and equal distance at 74 mph on the Interstate. Normal has been closer to 3.7.

 

[MattNet]

I always thought very high temperatures would lessen range. Yet yesterday we drove or 2023 Air Touring 288 miles in 98 degree temps (normal for you AZ folks, hot for us in Illinois) and scored 4.3 round-trip with mixed speeds of 60 mph on a state highway and and equal distance at 74 mph on the Interstate. Normal has been closer to 3.7.

Yeah I was curious about that too. It really peaks efficiency for me so far in the 80 to 90-ish range. 100-110 the AC starts to really kill it, but that 4.2 really surprised me. 4.3 is impressive I can see that with the 60-74 sort of mph.