I don't want to get into insulting or sarcastic language about the key fob issues with Lucid cars, but some perspective really does need to be acknowledged.
In my many years of reading and watching car reviews in all media, I never saw anything quite like what happened with the Air when it came to how many professional reviewers over how long a period had difficulties opening and/or starting an Air with the key fobs. More than a year after the Air entered the market, reviewers -- including Edmunds and Consumer Reports -- were still putting it high on the list of reasons to pause when thinking about buying an Air. It, more than anything else, spawned the buzz that still continues in social media about Lucids being unreliable.
In response, Lucid made it known that the Gravity was going to be a different story, with a new supplier, new hardware, and new software. Yet, within the first couple of weeks of the start of June deliveries, at least six new owners on this forum alone were reporting issues with getting into and starting their Gravities, despite protestations from some members that it was a very rare occurrence that warranted little attention or discussion. And within a couple of weeks of that, Lucid took the extraordinary step of advising owners via email to keep their key cards with them at all times as backup. And in the ensuing weeks, new reports of key fob (and also key card) issues continued to emerge on this forum, to the point that a couple of posters have already said they are canceling plans to buy a Gravity for now, as they cannot risk saddling themselves or their spouses with a car that cannot be opened or started easily and reliably.
I understand that there is no such thing as really simple technology in this area, and I know full well that other brands have had issues with key fobs. But I also know that I have been driving cars for many years with key fobs that have all the functions of the Lucid key fobs and have had very few issues with any of them (except with our second Tesla). As an inveterate early-adopter, most of these cars have been brand new models or new examples of a next-generation revision of a foregoing model.
Say what you will, there is something very odd going on with Lucid key fobs. I have no idea what it is. I have no idea whose fault (if that is even a useful term here) it might be. But I do know I have never seen anything in the automotive press like the dominance the issue attained with Air press coverage. And I remain perplexed -- and relieved -- that it has not yet become an issue with Gravity press coverage. Perhaps it has something to do with the mysterious absence of independent test drives by the major outlets at this point.
