Got an email yesterday from Lucid informing me that I needed to do a VIN certification at Connecticut DMV. Once there that also required a safety inspection. There are only 2 inspection lanes for the whole state. However, what really blows my mind, is that Lucid is not on CT’s list of approved manufacturers. Polestar? Yes, along with other really obscure brands. Why no Lucid? Heck if I know. If they had been on the list I would have been able to go to a local 3rd party VIN certification garage which was about 5 minutes away, instead, not being listed required a much longer trip. But it was a nice day for a drive and going up I-95 and I-91 Hands Free DA only scared the
out of me a couple of times.
The DMV workers were excellent! Funny guys who really knew car inspection and registration regs front and backwards. One worker said mine was the 3rd Lucid he’d certified and the other said it was his 5th. It blew their minds that Lucid hadn’t sent me the title to the car since one guy said he’d have walked me over to the main DMV building and got the process started for the tags and CT registration. He was really concerned that I was FedExing the original inspection form to Lucid and made me two copies and gave me his contact information just in case anything went squirrelly.
I shared these concerns with Ryan at Lucid who informed me that this was the way CT had set up registration with Lucid. Reminds me of the old Yes song “Roundabout” but Ryan did show a lot of patience with my old fart worries. The DMV workers agreed that this convoluted process for registering cars was largely due to the strong lobby that car dealers have in the state (and any state where Lucid doesn’t have a sales presence).
Anyway, here it is on the cusp of September, picked up my car in February, will be putting the official inspection forms in FedEx’s hands today, and hopefully, not too much longer from now. I’ll have my registration, tags, and title to my Air Touring. I’ll probably also have some kind of tax penalty for late registration as well.
