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[Steveinarizona]

Stability Now: Lucid Shows Us How EVs Can Dominate Ice and Snow

Credit the company's integrated control strategy that takes advantage of electric motors' superfast responses.

www.caranddriver.com

 

[SteveR]

thanks for posting; let my C/D lapse and miss their views. Winter climate buyers can find some joy in this testing and perhaps feel better about some of the comfort compromises.
My Air's shifter broke and a drive system fault warning came up but hope to head up to the Sierras to do my own light testing in a week or two

 

[TonyG]

Note how it mentions turning off regen breaking for the Gravity. Seems like a great idea.

 

[dbsb3233]

Note how it mentions turning off regen breaking for the Gravity. Seems like a great idea.

That seemed to be referring to RWD EVs only, if I read that right.

 

[johnse]

Note how it mentions turning off regen breaking for the Gravity. Seems like a great idea.

"But even Lucid's lightning-fast responses can't prevent regenerative braking from initiating too much oversteer on ice in the rear-motor Air Pure, an issue we've noticed with various rear-drive EVs lately. The fix is to make sure you turn off regen braking when driving in slippery conditions."

This was specifically the RWD Air Pure.

 

[idiot900]

By contrast I had no trouble at all in my AWD Touring in the recent northeast snowstorm. Only limitation was the ground clearance inherent to a sedan.