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As an engineer, I’m a little confused as to why range loss occurs in the cold. Is the problem that the battery is not insulated, like at all? Or perhaps it is not insulated on purpose, to get free cooling during times the battery needs cooling, and this is an engineering tradeoff - free...

I heard back from Lucid on this issue. They said I should contact EA. As has been discussed in other threads, that is, of course, BS - Lucid sold me a car with three years of EA charging, and if the charging doesn't work, that's Lucid's problem to fix. I will be surprised if EA says, "Oh...

Oh, yeah - didn't mention: my car is a GT. I thought about the fact that I had not preconditioned, so glad to hear that is apparently not an absolute relationship with this problem.

I charged at several EA chargers on a 700mi road trip. Of course, many chargers didn't work at all, or were finicky. But on the way home, several chargers exhibited the same behavior: charging would start, climb to a (modest) rate around 100kW for a while, then start bouncing around wildly...

Can you tell us the source of your information that it is intentional? I can understand "not trying to get rid of it", but that's a little different than "we want it to make noise". In general, mechanical engineers have a fairly visceral aversion to noise in moving equipment. It is usually...

I *did* test drive. The whine was much, much less pronounced on that car. Not nearly silent, like my Model S, but much quieter. So I wonder if this variation is a result of manufacturing tolerances or perhaps wear. I don't know recall how many miles were on the test drive vehicle, but...

What the kids heard was probably not the motor whine but the "Pedestrian Warning Sounds" (or whatever they call it).

You're kidding, right? They actually did this on purpose? It is extremely annoying to me, so I can understand the polarizing comment. I can understand giving some people feedback, but surely this could be done via the sound system. Is your impression this is actually coming from the motors...