How hot temperature does your Lucid get?

[blueice89]

So I parked my car at 9am and it’s 4pm now nearly 100 degrees external temp and my cell phone app reports the car is 97 degrees. I do have heavy amounts of tint 55% winshield, 20s all around. But is this accurate I am shocked honestly…

 

[borski]

So I parked my car at 9am and it’s 4pm now nearly 100 degrees external temp and my cell phone app reports the car is 97 degrees. I do have heavy amounts of tint 55% winshield, 20s all around. But is this accurate I am shocked honestly…
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It’s sitting in direct sun and it’s all glass. It’ll get hot. The fact that it’s lower than the outside temp is a very good thing, as without the tint it would be well above the outside temp, as the air inside the car is not being exchanged and is just cooking.

Just precool the car and you’ll be fine.

 

[blueice89]

Ohhh I was looking wrong temp lol!

 

[xponents]

Ohhh I was looking wrong temp lol!

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This is really weird honestly. Did you tint the top of your canopy or only the sides? Was the tint applied to the outside or inside of the car?

 

[stratus]

I have had it register up to 124 , precooled for 10 minutes and it was tolerable when I got in.

 

[Adnillien]

I have seen the interior temperature in the 140's. Today was cool for Phoenix with a slight haze so 126 interior seems about right. Pre-cooling for about 10 minutes works great.

 

[blueice89]

I time stamped my temperatures:
126 to 89 degrees in 12 minutes:

37 degees drop in temp in 12 minutes around 3 degrees per minute.

4:43pm

4:55pm

 

[EVCar]

So I parked my car at 9am and it’s 4pm now nearly 100 degrees external temp and my cell phone app reports the car is 97 degrees. I do have heavy amounts of tint 55% winshield, 20s all around. But is this accurate I am shocked honestly…
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This is normal for me.
That's what summer heat in the desert does to cars.

 

[borski]

This is really weird honestly. Did you tint the top of your canopy or only the sides? Was the tint applied to the outside or inside of the car?

No, it isn’t weird. Stagnant air inside a vehicle gets extremely hot, even if you black out the windows completely. The air inside the vehicle will cook, as will anything else in it.

This is why you should never leave a child or dog or other animal inside a locked car, even if you’ve cracked the windows, unless the climate control is on. They will cook.

 

[CraZ8]

You would do better to open the windows for a few minutes then precool the car. But we can’t do that remotely like Tesla

 

[lsbuffs]

I have seen the interior temperature in the 140's. Today was cool for Phoenix with a slight haze so 126 interior seems about right. Pre-cooling for about 10 minutes works great.

Yea when mine was parked outside last weekend, with temps just over 100, the interior was 140-something. No tint on my car. Just pre-cooled for about 20 minutes before getting in.

 

[hmp10]

You would do better to open the windows for a few minutes then precool the car. But we can’t do that remotely like Tesla

??? You can precool the car via the Lucid app. Same way you do it with a Tesla.

Also, if you're only going to be out of the car for a short while, there is a Climate Control feature that will maintain preset cabin temperature for up to 45 minutes.

 

[hydbob]

??? You can precool the car via the Lucid app. Same way you do it with a Tesla.

Also, if you're only going to be out of the car for a short while, there is a Climate Control feature that will maintain preset cabin temperature for up to 45 minutes.

He means cracking the windows open. Which is great, but these days, I'd rather just pre-cool than crack a window open. People will shove crap into your car.

 

[blueice89]

He means cracking the windows open. Which is great, but these days, I'd rather just pre-cool than crack a window open. People will shove crap into your car.

I can’t crack my window open just yet but would you do this in 100 plus degree heat that doesn’t seem super intuitive to me …

 

[hydbob]

I can’t crack my window open just yet but would you do this in 100 plus degree heat that doesn’t seem super intuitive to me …

Prior to evs that's all you could do to help keep a car cooler. It's very intuitive...for some.

 

[hmp10]

He means cracking the windows open. Which is great, but these days, I'd rather just pre-cool than crack a window open. People will shove crap into your car.

Oh, I now realize "then precool the car" should have been "than precool the car".

But does cracking the windows really do much on a hot day? Even if it would bring the temperature down to outside temperature (which it would only do over time in optimal circumstances), on a hot day the interior will still be uncomfortable, especially if it's also humid.

Precooling a car takes relatively little battery energy. I've sat in the car in airport cell phone lots on hot Florida summer days with the A/C and audio systems running for an hour or more and never seen the battery charge drop more that 2%. Precooling a car for 10 minutes would never be noticed in terms of range loss.

 

[hydbob]

Oh, I now realize "then precool the car" should have been "than precool the car".

But does cracking the windows really do much on a hot day? Even if it would bring the temperature down to outside temperature (which it would only do over time in optimal circumstances), on a hot day the interior will still be uncomfortable, especially if it's also humid.

Precooling a car takes relatively little battery energy. I've sat in the car in airport cell phone lots on hot Florida summer days with the A/C and audio systems running for an hour or more and never seen the battery charge drop more that 2%. Precooling a car for 10 minutes would never be noticed in terms of range loss.

Agreed, the ability to run the AC remotely has removed the need to ever crack the windows again, especially in the Lucid.

 

[hmp10]

Prior to evs that's all you could do to help keep a car cooler. It's very intuitive...for some.

We've had the remote start feature in our two Honda Odysseys since 2011, which allows cabin preconditioning as long as the vehicle is in an open space. It was a dealer-installed option on both vehicles. We never used it as much as we assumed we would when we first bought it, in part because the key fob had to be within range of the car to activate it. We used it most frequently when having dinner in a restaurant with the car parked nearby.

I assume the feature would be more useful with newer ICE cars operated via apps. However, you've still got to do it in an open space.

 

[Ryrub]

Down in New Orleans yesterday outside temp about 90. That Lucid doesn’t have cabin overheat protection yet is disgraceful. If only for safety reasons-40 children die every year in the back of hot cars because their caregivers forgot they were there-that NEVER has to happen in a Lucid.

And I have 20% tint on all 4 windows and rear.

 

[joec]

Down in New Orleans yesterday outside temp about 90. That Lucid doesn’t have cabin overheat protection yet is disgraceful. If only for safety reasons-40 children die every year in the back of hot cars because their caregivers forgot they were there-that NEVER has to happen in a Lucid.

And I have 20% tint on all 4 windows and rear.

What’s disgraceful is leaving a child in a car with the windows closed. At this point, with all the info we have, there’s just no excuse for that. It’s like taking up smoking now and claiming you didn’t think you’d get cancer.

I agree Lucid should add overheat protection as a feature. But let’s be clear where the blame is for people dying.