Recent content by minivanasatruck

I work with a lot of pressure vessels. At 350 bar, COPVs rupturing in a car would disintegrate you at a mere 1/4th of the energy of a titan sub implosion. Even without COPVs though, hypercars are death traps in most crash scenarios.

This is a classic contrast principle tactic to make the SUV version built on the same platform look far more practical and attractive. Either that or someone really f-ed up.

One would think they would actually check the door for issues in the first place. So much for me holding out hope that the 2027 Gravities were less failure prone.

I checked out a 2027 Gravity model at the showroom yesterday and moved the 2nd row forward and backward. It's far, far quieter and doesn't sound like my dying chair motor on my 11 year old model S. It also has a smoother action from the last car I test drove. Can anyone else with a 2027 Model...

Hopefully software and service goes up in quality while they have the vehicle, otherwise it's going to be another engineering explained situation. I don't typically listen to influencers but I do trust Zack's opinion since his videos are low on typical YouTube channel bs. Looking for the full...

I'm in this boat. I really don't understand why they showed the model off last year and did nothing with it. I'm 100% sure the Gravity X would sell more than the regular Gravity in my area and eat into R1S sales. But I guess they don't want to compete with Rivian.

This kind of experience is what scares me the most about Lucid. Either they DGAF about customer support or they are so focused on cost cutting they barely have anyone running service. Neither scenario is great for long term success because both create a feedback loop of negative sentiment for...

The Gravity X concept fixes this in a big way with the higher suspension (default?) and the back trim piece and sloping line on the bottom at a more aggressive angle. If they had this out I would get this instead of waiting for the Cayenne. It's a really big shame the Gravity will never get...

A Lucid employee is holding a AMA on the 18th on service. It would be good to ask some hard questions from this thread. From the post: I’m Erwin Raphael, Senior Vice President of Global Revenue at Lucid. I am excited to share that I’ll be hosting an Ask-Me-Anything on the r/Lucid subreddit on...

Exactly, it's not a viable plan unless they plan on spending orders of magnitude more on their plant and workforce. Quick math says the US has roughly a 10x larger skilled laborforce. You're training almost all of them from scratch for the Lucid plants in KSA, because no sane individual with...

If service appointments and bug fix cadence continue to get worse I can't think of a bigger red flag for Lucid as a viable company. And if service and fixes get better/faster, I can't think of a bigger green flag. I'm sure a lot of investors are checking service quality reports as a top...

High coil whine on PCs are usually because of uncapped FPS and the components getting overworked. I wonder what the issue is with the headlights, and if it can be easily fixed by lowering the PWM flicker rate (effectively the FPS of the LED headlights) in software or will require complete...

I stand corrected, looks like it's a personnel and execution problem.

Then the PIF should commit far more resources into Lucid than what was announced recently to signal to the market they have unwaivering support. Getting a new car up from production into consumer hands is ballpark $2-3BN at minimum. Tesla spent roughly $5-10BN but that was also for battery tech...

I'm not an investor of lucid, but from the perspective of an outsider I would say confidence in the PIF continuing to back Lucid is shaky at best despite the recent dribble of a $750MM commitment. Unlike Elonmuskrat, the Saudis don't have the conviction of doubling down when the odds are not in...