10,000 mile review - the good and the not-so-good, but nothing ugly

[EZEVDriver]

After ~20 months and 10,000 miles of driving an Air Touring, I can now make a reasonable balance sheet. I'm going to starts with picking nits. I'll avoid topics like "Hey Lucid," because there are really long discussions about this and only once did it try to navigate me to the south of Mexico.

One nit I haven't seen complained about by anyone else:

• The order of seat restoration. I am taller than my wife. No, that's not a complaint. She is the most frequent driver and her seat position is really far forward. That's also not the complaint. What irk me is that when the Lucid recognizes me, it starts by changing the recline of the seat rather than the horizontal position. So because the seat is also really reclined, this takes a long time. I do not understand the use case in which the recline of the seat is more urgent that its horizontal position.

Nits I have seen others complain about:

• The charge curve. I'm not really sure whether to complain about it or not. I plan to hold on to the car for a while, so I should be happy with any efforts to minimize battery degradation. But if it's possible to maintain a higher rate of charge for longer, this would take 5-10 minutes off every stop at EA. Improving the charge curve is more important to me than, for example, Android Auto.
• The RangeXchange charging adapter requires a $650 (!) mobile charging kit. So, we finally get V2V out of the promise of bidirectionality, but the original mobile adapter can't handle the promised feature? And don't get me started on V2L or V2H.

Regrets on my part:

• Massage seats weren't an option when I bought the car.
• The glass canopy. I really love the glass canopy, but I don't like cabin heat. My wife loves the glass canopy and just turns up the air conditioning. Oh, well.

The good:

• Best car I have ever driven. Most powerful, most comfortable, most efficient, most stylish (of the cars I've owned). The Tahoe interior is gorgeous.
• EA replaced the nearest chargers to my house with the newer models. Rarely out of order and frequently has only a five-minute wait.

 

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[joec]

The order of seat restoration. I am taller than my wife. No, that's not a complaint. She is the most frequent driver and her seat position is really far forward. That's also not the complaint. What irk me is that when the Lucid recognizes me, it starts by changing the recline of the seat rather than the horizontal position. So because the seat is also really reclined, this takes a long time. I do not understand the use case in which the recline of the seat is more urgent that its horizontal position.

I have a theory about this: The curved roof. They want to be absolutely sure the top of the seat doesn't get mashed into the glass roof/ windshield. You'll notice when the seat is really far forward horizontally and up vertically, it won't even let you bring the recline all the way up. It starts moving the seat down if you try and bring the back forward too far.

It does drive me nuts, though. I think if they just let us switch profiles from the app, it wouldn't matter how long it took I'd do it before I left my living room.

 

[EZEVDriver]

It does drive me nuts, though. I think if they just let us switch profiles from the app, it wouldn't matter how long it took I'd do it before I left my living room.

Great workaround.