I'd like to address multiple posts here, not gonna quote them all, which all talk about "a little delay" and "extra few days" or "a couple of weeks", and also posts, advising Lucid "it's better to be vague and not give dates...". Ladies and gentlemen, Lucid is not going to be late "a few days" or even "a couple of weeks" - they are going to be late (hopefully) just few days or a couple of weeks from March 12th, but that is just their latest missed deadline. It is NOT the originally promised, communicated to customers and investors target release date for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto - these features were advertised to be available AT LAUNCH, which was somewhere in the middle of last year. There are old Lucid press releases about that, which can be dug up, and other types of communication about that from Lucid in the past. Since then I personally heard excuses from Lucid CS and other Lucid officials why it's getting delayed, and heard "around Thanksgiving" as a new target release timeframe, then I heard "December 2025", then "January 2026", then "Q1 2026". It makes no sense to say "a little late" or "a couple of weeks late" - they are late BY ABOUT TEN MONTHS. And that is only true if you start counting from the time the actual vehicle was released. If you take into account the delay in release of Gravity itself then the time between originally communicated Gravity release time and release of these features will probably be around 1.5 years.
Let's say for whatever reason Lucid doesn't fix whatever is wrong with v3.5 soon, and it takes another 2 months until the update with these features is released. Let's also say they're gonna say in another press release "May 15 release date" and then they actually deliver on May 17 - are you actually going to say Lucid was late "just a couple of days"?... Is by how much they missed their latest communicated and then broken deadline how we calculate the delay?
As for the advice for Lucid to be vague - this March 12 was literally first ever concrete date they ever gave to consumers or investors, after failing to deliver those features with the vehicle nearly a year ago. 95% of the time I asked Lucid about it the answer was "soon" or "hopefully soon" or "we're just waiting on Google certification...", etc. and the remaining 5% of the time the generic timelines I gave in 1st paragraph were thrown out there. For a company that is THIS much late on a promised at launch feature, they could not have been more vague if they tried.
They probably only communicated a date now because they were afraid of potential class action, where Gravity owners would gang up on them for undelivered important feature. For some people, such as myself, Lucid's willingness to install and deliver CarPlay & AA was one of the key criteria for selecting their EV brand, and one of the main reasons for passing up on other EV brands like Rivian or Tesla, who refuse to include it.
