I had this too, right up until my 1-year service last Friday. The great tech Emerson here in Seattle had me roll the window down, and sure enough the short vertical external weather seal at the front edge had a fold in it halfway down. Problem solved! Maybe yours is that simple too.
This is simply untrue. Full stop. Unlike other forums I’ve frequented over the years, on a variety of topics, there is considerable leeway given posters here. I can’t recall any poster being suspended or ‘shut down’ for simply complaining about issues with their car…and at times there has been a lot of complaining. Yes, on rare occasions I’ve seen threads shut down after the same complaint is registered 100 times or the thread veers way off topic. In those cases these threads simply get boring for the reader and the value of the thread plummets.I too have noticed a tendency of shutting down / dismiss the "complainers", but it's understandable. Not many people can be objective, especially when they sunk a lot of money in something. You criticize my car, hence criticize my decision, hence you criticize me, and guess what? I have the powa' fool!!! Muahaha!They can suspend me, I couldn't care less - if that's the kind of forum they want to have where everyone sings Kumbaya and commune with nature.
On a more serious note, I think there are ways to communicate your unhappy feelings, without creating much of a fuss. Here's for hoping!
That would make a lot of sense, except Lucid never even said that your car didn't have the computing power to deliver the promised features. You literally heard the announcement, made up an issue, and got angry over it...
This is a scenario where the computing power is likely already there for all the promised features. Engineers rarely utilize 100% of the hardware available in an efficient manner. This is an industry wide problem from my experience due to things not relevant to this thread.
I, personally, will be the first to admit that I complain... a lot. But I try to do it in a constructive way or at the very least an objective way. I have not once been banned here but the key is the delivery. I do agree that at one point the forum was a little more hostile towards negative comments but I think over time has lightened up and accepted some of the shortcomings of the vehicle. Just wanted to say, as long as your being respectful with your opinions, there won't be problems. Many may disagree with you but I personally enjoy the light banter back and fourth to hear different opinions than mine. Its never personal thus it should never be a personal attack (this is what will get you banned).
Its one of my biggest complaints about my Taycan. Backup camera is so distorted that you can hardly tell how close you are to a curb or another car.
Yes, a lot of us cheer for these advancements. We paid money not just to get a spectacular car, but to invest in the mission of the company that is building it, hoping that investment would lead to rapid improvements in technology that would bring down the cost of manufacturing to make products that grow in appeal while becoming more accessible to the masses. I don't in any way feel like I bought a car that is incomplete, which is not to say that I don't wish for that heat pump, but I can keep looking back at what I bought and say that even though that was a lot more money than I've ever spent on a car before, it was among the best money I ever spent, and I would do it again if I had the chance to do it over.
Do you think Lucid will retrofit cpus in to older cars like Tesla did? I doubt it.
Not that I'm a gambling man, but if I were, I'd say the the chances of that possibly happening eventually are higher than you think.
So the baseline Air Pure will have this efficiency partly due to a heat pump. I also read all Air models will have a hear pump. In that case do we know what the Air Touring efficiency will be? And will it still have a 92Kwh battery? If so that would yield 460 miles range ! Not quite at the current GT level but close !"The new Lucid Air Pure delivers 420 miles of EPA-estimated range from a battery pack that is just 84 kilowatt-hours. Enabled by further advancements of Lucid’s groundbreaking technology, this makes the Lucid Air the first vehicle in the world to achieve a ratio of 5.0 miles of range per kilowatt hour (kWh) of energy."
5.0 miles/kWh: Say Hello to the World's Most Efficient Car
lucidmotors.com
Here is my speculation, for what it's worth... The heat pump will definitely come in play in real world range, but I'm not sure how much it comes into play in the EPA range testing process. If their tests are in such ideal conditions that heating or cooling isn't used, or is barely used, then the heat pump would not have much (if any) effect on the EPA figure. For sure in real time though. As for your Touring 460 figure... The Touring has two smaller motors than the Pure RWD's one, higher horsepower, and higher weight, so I can't picture it hitting the 5.0 miles/kWh EPA figure. That said, it should improve by the amount driven by the software improvements and the heat pump's improvements. I would guess about another 0.2 miles/kWh at best in EPA range. And all of that may be wrong!
I don't want to debate @Bunnylebowski's point of view. Rather, I like us all to be educated on the 5 mile/kWh milestone and applicability.
From my understanding PM motors are not for performance applications. There is a delay in pushing power through them. I wouldn’t expect PMMs in a Sapphire like car anytime soon. I think Tesla dual motor performance cars use one permanent magnet rear motor and an induction front motor to kind of balance out the responsiveness with efficiency
