Recent content by johnse

All of these comments about price are, I think, a distraction. The price has nothing to do with the slow rollout. There is plenty of demand...it's the supply that is lacking. All 450 Dream Editions are now spoken for. With inflation-adjusted dollars, it's about the same as I paid for my Model X...

I didn't listen to the whole demo, but I found it to be an adversarial conversation. Maybe it's just me...I don't use AI chat bots at all.

It used to be said of Jaguar: If you want to drive a Jaguar, you'd batter have two. One to drive and one in the shop. Didn't seem to diminish the desire for Jaguars. I agree Lucid needs to improve quality. As they start to deliver more in the next few months we will see how they are doing. But...

But for the vast majority of the driving people do, they charge at home and are never waiting for the charge to complete. 10 seconds to plug/unplug. Even with the relatively slow charge rate of my Model X, on long trips (I've done many cross country trips in all seasons) most of my charging...

People don't pay attention to the range of ICE vehicles. The oil and car companies have trained us to not with about it and just fill up when we get low with little to no planning. I also think the common SUV and Luxury buyers couldn't care less about fuel economy and will not obsess over a...

A while back @indigo6 posted: And we were told back in July, I think that there would be an update on September. This looks to me like they identified the problem and needed to work with Marquardt to get a fix ready (firmware, hardware, or both). Particularly if it was hardware, that would...

For many years (maybe still?) Teslas did not have AM radio because the motor systems were too noisy and IIRC Mask claimed there was no way to solve it. I take this claim with a grain of salt. Lucid's have AM/FM HD radio. I don't have mine yet, but others can likely report if AM radio is usable...

The situation pictured only uses two spaces. The space to the right is usable by either another Air (parked same way as this Air) or a Tesla using the post normally used by that space. You could actually charge n Air's in a row while only using n+1 spaces...though that is a best-case scenario 😊...

Model X has the same hitch and the same limit. The issue is the long moment arm and the dynamic load of the bikes while the car is accelerating. Also, if you have the type of rack that swings out of the way, the weight gets magnified. It's a very different dynamic than towing a trailer. The...

On my test drive my SA prompted me to "see if there was a speed governor" 😁. Didn't quite hit 100, though it still had plenty of oomph. She said with their Air testers there are limiters. I wonder if one of their conditions for unaccompanied test drives is to have the limiter?

It might be that the NACS connector on the station is getting old. One of the design points that the committee used in choosing CCS over the Tesla connector was 10,000 insertion lifetime for CCS vs 2,500 for Tesla. Tesla felt that they could simply replace connectors more often. Pulling at...

Early June

We worked with our sales advisor to directly upgrade from GGT to GDE.

GGT order 3/23 Ojai/bronze fully loaded GDE upgraded 4/8 AG/Yosemite Once we saw Tahoe in person and the durability concerns about Perluxe, Tahoe became a better option...and was told it would arrive sooner than Yosemite.

My incessant refreshing of my Lucid Dashboard has finally yielded results! I have a VIN and the dashboard says In Production! No email or other contact from my SA, but she has just transferred to be the Delivery Manager at Scottsdale. She emailed almost 2 weeks ago saying a new SA would be...