New to Lucid

[Mooeymoose]

Well, I am selling my Rivian R1s and leasing a Lucid Air GT, glass roof, 20" wheels, light blue, stealth, fake leather. My first lease ever as well.
I am looking for 19" rims for Snow tires and perhaps frunk, trunk mats, roof rack, if anyone is selling. I live in the Chicago area and more specifically Park Ridge.

Any thought for what I am in for. I guess I can still cancel my order.
I hope they have made improvements in the software as well.

 

[azguy]

Coming from 7 years of owning Tesla's, most recently a Model S, I think you will be thrilled with the car. There are pros and cons with the software... my understanding of Rivian software is that you will be doing better with Lucid. Tesla is still ahead in the software game, but Lucid is moving pretty fast. I miss radar weather on the nav screen (please Lucid!) and the little beeps that tell me red traffic lights have turned to green, but overall it's an excellent experience. The Lucid has some software tricks the Tesla's don't have, but Tesla has had years to get their software right. It was rough at the start. I think you'll love the car, and what a great driving experience it provides.

 

[illopp00]

How long is your lease? I have an Air touring in Chicago area, I went and bought Tuxmats for it.

 

[BradSholl]

I have a ‘22 R1S LE and a ‘22 AGT. Both are excellent vehicles, but very different in nature. The Air is great to look at, wonderful drive characteristics and fantastic range and sound system. The UX, while ever improving, isn’t quite there yet. The R1S is just solid. Lots of cargo space and a hitch receiver to tow or mount a bike rack. The interior is well sorted and in a straight line, it really goes, but being a heavy SUV, it can’t corner anywhere near the Air. The UX is much more stable and user friendly, in my opinion.
Owning both is the perfect solution, but you won’t be disappointed with the AGT.

 

[FooFighter]

my understanding of Rivian software is that you will be doing better with Lucid.

Having owned an R1S for 2 years, I think Rivian’s software is far superior than Lucid’s.

 

[FooFighter]

Well, I am selling my Rivian R1s and leasing a Lucid Air GT, glass roof, 20" wheels, light blue, stealth, fake leather. My first lease ever as well.
I am looking for 19" rims for Snow tires and perhaps frunk, trunk mats, roof rack, if anyone is selling. I live in the Chicago area and more specifically Park Ridge.

Any thought for what I am in for. I guess I can still cancel my order.
I hope they have made improvements in the software as well.

I’m almost your twin. I live near chicago and also switched from an R1S to a blue stealth AT with 20” after the R1S was totaled.
My Lucid is my first lease as well. Have you read those threads about lease returns? I’m having some buyers remorse.

 

[Ryrub]

Having owned an R1S for 2 years, I think Rivian’s software is far superior than Lucid’s.

I owe both also and I agree.

 

[Allnatt]

Coming from 7 years of owning Tesla's, most recently a Model S, I think you will be thrilled with the car. There are pros and cons with the software... my understanding of Rivian software is that you will be doing better with Lucid. Tesla is still ahead in the software game, but Lucid is moving pretty fast. I miss radar weather on the nav screen (please Lucid!) and the little beeps that tell me red traffic lights have turned to green, but overall it's an excellent experience. The Lucid has some software tricks the Tesla's don't have, but Tesla has had years to get their software right. It was rough at the start. I think you'll love the car, and what a great driving experience it provides.

I agree with this post having come from the Tesla world as well but with a couple of minor caveats. Tesla does have some more advanced software features such as "Navigate on AutoPilot" but I found I never used them either because I couldn't trust them or because they didn't function the way I instinctively drive. My Lucid Air might be slightly dumbed down but functionally nearly identical for the way I employ the automation. Also, almost everyone of Tesla's superior features is buried under 3 pages on menus and totally unaccesable while driving. I've come to really appreciate all of the Lucids features being within one screen of wherever Im at.

Additionally, Lucids software has improved significantly just in the 2.5 months Ive driven the car. The first month I probably had to do a reset at least 2 to 3 times per week to either fix the sound quality or some other anomaly. Over the last 4 weeks I can't remember doing any resets.

 

[azguy]

I've only had my AGT a week, but haven't seen anything nasty like lockups, features that didn't work etc. I've had to do some searching to find things I wanted the car to do, and the in-car manual doesn't appear to be searchable, which is kind of a dumb mistake. Still, there's a lot to like. I have two friends with Rivians, and they both like them. Both say software updates are frequent, but often cause more unexpected bugs, and they wish Rivian would slow down a bit.

My only worry, with nothing to back it up, is that the new Gravity will get a lot of the software attention and that the Air might be left behind. I hope not. I'm really pleased with the car.

 

[illopp00]

You've always got Android Auto or Apple CarPlay for any additional navigations or infotainment which Tesla or Rivian don't. I think the manual is kinda searchable from the Mobile app on your phone.

 

[azguy]

You've always got Android Auto or Apple CarPlay for any additional navigations or infotainment which Tesla or Rivian don't. I think the manual is kinda searchable from the Mobile app on your phone.

I do appreciate CarPlay. The manual does not seem to be searchable from the app. Also, I downloaded the manual as a PDF and it's not searchable either.

 

[Mooeymoose]

How long is your lease? I have an Air touring in Chicago area, I went and bought Tuxmats for it.

3 years

 

[Mooeymoose]

I am definitely going to miss the Rivian’s storage and hitch. This was my biggest reason not moving with a Lucid any sooner. The Rivian has been amazing and moving kids to college and nice for my bike rack and some home depot hauls. I am disappointed is its storage in the cabin however. Large center storage is too deep to be that useful.
I do love the driving of the Lucid. It’s been a while since I had a sedan and that will be nice.
Great to hear the software is getting a lot better. I do hope the Gravity development will bring new software to the lucid quicker now that they are launching it.

Also, mine says it does have the green light chime which I did love from Tesla. Rivian’s on my gen 1 only chimes now when if a car drives off in front of you and it does not sense Green lights.
I will look at the leasing thread.

 

[borski]

My only worry, with nothing to back it up, is that the new Gravity will get a lot of the software attention and that the Air might be left behind. I hope not. I'm really pleased with the car.

If it helps comfort you at all, the gravity has neither CarPlay nor Android Auto (yet), and the Air has handsfree drive assist which the gravity doesn’t have yet (but will soon)

It doesn’t look to me like the Air’s been left behind.

 

[azguy]

Software people are a limited resource... now they have 2 cars to work on.. and a lot of reports indicate a lot needs fixing/updating on the gravity. Having been a software project manager, I know that you put people where the fires are. Hope updates for the air don't slow down.