Halodde, I completely agree with you. I just took my pure in for its 1 year service at 20,000 miles (it sat unused for 5 months). Complained that at virtually every single charge station the Lucid is out charged by most everything that sits next to me, every Hyundai, Mercedes, Porsche, VW and the majority of BMWs. Yesterday I was at a 350kw EA station. An Ionic 5 pulled up at the same time. We plugged in less then 1 minute apart. I was at 41%, he was at 40%. The Lucid predicted full charge ( to 90%) in 40 minutes and I pulled 170kwh. For less then 5 minutes. I hit 52% and I was below 100kwh at 70%, the Ionic left at 89%. I was down to 60 kwh. At 80% I was below 40 kwh. When I hit 90% and stopped charging, I was below 20 kwh and had been there 1 hour and 20 minutes. Unacceptable.
The Lucid service center told me the car was functioning correctly. If DC fast chargers are used often it limits charging to protect the battery and that all brands do this. My daily experience watching everyone pull away charged long before the Lucid gets there would seem to call BS on this but the Lucid definitely is severely limiting charge speed. So much for the Wonder of the Wunderbox. My most used car in my "daily rotation" typically gets about 50k miles yearly. I commute 90 miles each way through the heart of Southern CA and a few times per month I commute 330 miles one way. My typical charge session goes something like this; Head to one of 3 350 kw stations near home, hope that at least 3 of 6 chargers are actually working, get in line (all functioning chargers are in use and usually there are 4 to 7 cars in line), wait 45 minutes to 1 hour to get on a charger, charge for 1 hour and 15 minutes (90%) and head home exhausted and frustrated.
I'm only at home about 7 hours, so there is no chance the Lucid will charge enough overnight to drive to work and back. To put in the high speed Lucid charger would require an upgrade to 400 amp service for my house. I was quoted $20k to do this not include the cost to repair the street that we would have to dig up. So that's never going to happen. I told the Lucid service rep that id prefer the battery be treated as disposable, like windshield wipers, tires or brakes, and replace it every 2-3 years. He said that it would cost in excess of $20k. I said it costs me over $500 in time waiting to charge every day. We all have to be in a similar situation as these are not cheap cars to buy in the first place. By the way, my wife's Mach e doesn't seem to suffer from any of these issues. Just like all of those other cars I watch so jealously at the charging stations. Again, he claimed this is normal for all brands and that my Lucid is behaving properly. I don't know for sure but I don't believe Lucid right now.
These are the kinds of things that will discourage the general public from ever accepting EVs. We bought our EVs as an experiment. I believe we have our answers. I like the quiet operation and love the acceleration. That's were it ends. As a performance vehicle, they lack soul. I could accept this for the instant acceleration but I refuse to accept the massive inconvenience. I believe the general public feels the same.
