I'm heading out on a road trip to northern AZ this week from SoCal. Anyone have recommendations for charging and restaurants in the greater Flagstaff area?
There are a few track-pairs on here that I'm not sure are good samples, so I'm open to comments / observations / suggestions to improve and expand this playlist.
https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/b4026103-4e49-46a7-8fb9-987c9a00c598
I may have stumbled onto a way to make the Mobile Key work more reliably. If you wave/place your iOS device near the RFID area on the drivers side B-pillar, it will wake the phone enough to start the handshake for the mobile key. It's not communicating via the RFID per se, but it does get it...
For those of you who want a small, lightweight roadster, this could be a lot of fun:
https://jalopnik.com/morgan-xp1-three-wheel-electric-sports-car-perfect-1851077599
Seems Mercedes is ready to launch an electric SUV using silicon anode battery tech next year. If the 450Wh/kg vs. 270Wh/kg of battery capacity pans out, would you rather have a next gen Lucid Air go 700+ miles or weigh ~400lbs less...
I use the Auto Park feature a lot to parallel park in in front of my house. One thing I've noticed is that sometimes it parks biased towards the car in front, and other times it's towards the car in back. Is there a way to tell the Lucid which end of the available space you want it to finish at...
Nothing official of course, but some back of the envelope math…
https://jalopnik.com/bentley-ev-could-be-twice-as-powerful-as-combustion-w12-1850338212
I’ve noticed a few subtle improvements and bug fixes in the last round or two of OTA updates that I want to give the Lucid team credit and thanks for. I don’t remember seeing these mentioned in the release notes, so these are strictly my observations:
- The lane keeping and driver alertness...
I've had pretty good luck lately avoiding the dreaded WHUMP when the chassis bottoms against a speed bump by setting the drive mode to Swift in the parking lot. The dampers are adjusted a bit stiffer, so there isn't nearly as much rebound/bounce when the car goes over the back side of the bump...
This is a general BLE issue, not specific to any manufacturer:
https://newsroom.nccgroup.com/news/ncc-group-uncovers-bluetooth-low-energy-ble-vulnerability-that-puts-millions-of-cars-mobile-devices-and-locking-systems-at-risk-447952
I really like the idea of reducing the unsprung/rotational mass of the wheels. The marketing also sells the NVH improvements of composite wheels. Digging around a bit, ESE Carbon seems to have a single-piece carbon fiber 19" wheel design geared towards EVs that could be tweaked to fit the Air...