RESOLVED In home charger

[DRJWAYMAN]

Is the Lucid in home charger the best option for charging the Lucid

 

[segbrk]

It is an option that is good. Whether it's the best for you is up to you.
Do you already have a level 2 charger from a previous car? If so, probably not worth replacing it.
Do you get the $1000 charging credit with your car? If so, that's a pretty good deal.
Do you have capacity for an extra 100A breaker in your panel?
Do you even need the extra charging speed as compared to e.g. a 40A or 48A charger? If you're not likely to forget to plug in and you aren't regularly driving 200+ miles in a day, probably not.

Other than being 80A, there's nothing special about Lucid's charger. It doesn't currently have any remote monitoring/management features via a smartphone app like some of the more popular ones.

 

[scal_air]

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Other than being 80A, there's nothing special about Lucid's charger. ..

Reminds me of the punchline, "other than that Mrs Lincoln, how did you like the play?"

The Lucid home charger, as noted by segbrk, is an 80 amp charger, so it charges at twice the speed of other L2 chargers. It costs more, but if you're going to pay for installation it's just fraction more of the total cost. And, I hesitate to say, it will (allegedly) support V2H someday...

 

[Pragmatic]

There are other 80 amp chargers. As segbrk stated it is one of several choices and it depends on you circumstances.

 

[Sandvinsd]

Since it doesn’t do bidirectional, and may never do that, has no consumer interface or app to use it, I would go with another 80 amp charger if you want that speed. The Lucid home charger is a very dumb charger. There are better ones out there. If you don’t need all that speed, pick up a 50 or 40 amp charger you can hardwire that has good app functionality.

 

[bikeriderbryan]

Since it doesn’t do bidirectional, and may never do that, has no consumer interface or app to use it, I would go with another 80 amp charger if you want that speed. The Lucid home charger is a very dumb charger. There are better ones out there. If you don’t need all that speed, pick up a 50 or 40 amp charger you can hardwire that has good app functionality.

I agree unless you are getting the $1000 charger credit from Lucid. If you are, hard to pass on a $200 80A charger.

 

[macolhie]

I was just told by Lucid support that Lucid does not support non Lucid (except for EA) Level 2 chargers. My Tesla Wall Charger was working great until 2.5 software broke it. Now it charges at 10 kW for 10 minutes, then shows a series of crazy estimates and end in Charging Error. I've never heard or read anything about it and nobody has ever communicated such information when I told them that I had a Tesla Wall Charger at home. Does anybody know what happened?

 

[pyle112]

I was just told by Lucid support that Lucid does not support non Lucid (except for EA) Level 2 chargers. My Tesla Wall Charger was working great until 2.5 software broke it. Now it charges at 10 kW for 10 minutes, then shows a series of crazy estimates and end in Charging Error. I've never heard or read anything about it and nobody has ever communicated such information when I told them that I had a Tesla Wall Charger at home. Does anybody know what happened?

Sounds odd. Both chargepoint and juice box worked for me (currently using chargepoint post 2.5 update)

 

[scal_air]

I'm guessing they didn't want to troubleshoot a charging issue with a 3rd party charger?
Is that what they meant by not "support"?

 

[macolhie]

I'm guessing they didn't want to troubleshoot a charging issue with a 3rd party charger?
Is that what they meant by not "support"?

That's the spin, but with 1000x more Tesla Wall and Destination chargers, it does not seem to be the right attitude. As a small volume company, they have to be compatible with the rest of the world. They don't have a choice. No hotel will buy a Lucid charger for the one car a year they will see. Tesla owners will think twice before considering Lucid. I'm afraid things like that can really hurt the company.

 

[pyle112]

I was just told by Lucid support that Lucid does not support non Lucid (except for EA) Level 2 chargers. My Tesla Wall Charger was working great until 2.5 software broke it. Now it charges at 10 kW for 10 minutes, then shows a series of crazy estimates and end in Charging Error. I've never heard or read anything about it and nobody has ever communicated such information when I told them that I had a Tesla Wall Charger at home. Does anybody know what happened?

Have you tried a logo reset. That typically solves half my issues after an ota update.

 

[macolhie]

Have you tried a logo reset. That typically solves half my issues after an ota update.

Yes, I've done the resets a couple of times. Resetting charger breaker helped it to work for 10 minutes instead of immediately running into problems.

 

[macolhie]

Sounds odd. Both chargepoint and juice box worked for me (currently using chargepoint post 2.5 update)

I agree that it makes no sense, but maybe it is something specific to Tesla chargers that they broke in the update. At least I wound not have chosen Lucid if I did not believe that I could use one of the 40k Tesla destination chargers or my existing home chargers. We don't even know how many Tesla Wall chargers are in private homes, but In would bet on multiples of the destination chargers.

 

[tonybot]

Do you have another vehicle that charges fine with this charger? If not, could it be a charger or breaker issue? It is unlikely that the update broke the charger or else we should have many other reports as many owners use Tesla chargers at home.

 

[sdlucid]

Is this the universal wall connector? Or the normal wall connector with some third party adapter? If it's the universal, did you try other configurations in the Tesla app? I heard that it was working only in compatibility mode for some EVs. That's worth a shot.
I think, although Lucid may not officially attempt to troubleshoot such issues, all car companies are testing their EVs with most popular third party chargers internally. But, they may not be doing that after every software update. The Youtuber 'State of Charge' told in a video that companies used to send their EVs to him in the past to test with all chargers, but it's no longer done as they have internal testing. It's common sense for them to ensure compatibility with all popular level-2 chargers, as most customers may have different brand EVs and all chargers should be compatible to each other.

 

[Neurio]

I was just told by Lucid support that Lucid does not support non Lucid (except for EA) Level 2 chargers.

EA chargers are level 3, not 2.

My Tesla Wall Charger was working great until 2.5 software broke it. Now it charges at 10 kW for 10 minutes, then shows a series of crazy estimates and end in Charging Error. I've never heard or read anything about it and nobody has ever communicated such information when I told them that I had a Tesla Wall Charger at home. Does anybody know what happened?

I can't believe the software update broke your charger. You need to troubleshoot whether it's the car or the charger. Do you have a different car to try on your charger? Or a different level 2 charger to try your car on? Those would be the only ways to see what's actually broken.

 

[scal_air]

Actually, EA does make a level 2 charger...

HomeStation by Electrify America - $649 - Smart Charge America

The HomeStation Level 2 EV electric car charger by Electrify America (EVSE) charges electric vehicles like the Chevy Bolt and Polestar.

smartchargeamerica.com

 

[borski]

I was just told by Lucid support that Lucid does not support non Lucid (except for EA) Level 2 chargers. My Tesla Wall Charger was working great until 2.5 software broke it. Now it charges at 10 kW for 10 minutes, then shows a series of crazy estimates and end in Charging Error. I've never heard or read anything about it and nobody has ever communicated such information when I told them that I had a Tesla Wall Charger at home. Does anybody know what happened?

That’s nonsense. I use my Wallbox Pulsar Plus just fine, and I’ve recently charged using a TeslaTap.

That's the spin, but with 1000x more Tesla Wall and Destination chargers, it does not seem to be the right attitude. As a small volume company, they have to be compatible with the rest of the world. They don't have a choice. No hotel will buy a Lucid charger for the one car a year they will see. Tesla owners will think twice before considering Lucid. I'm afraid things like that can really hurt the company.

It works fine with a Tesla destination charger; some Tesla chargers are set up to *only* charge Teslas. The TeslaTap helps with this by mimicking a Tesla (it has a chip inside).

This is not an issue Lucid has; something is wrong with your charger, not the Lucid. What adapter are you using? Or do you have a CCS Tesla charger?

 

[macolhie]

Do you have another vehicle that charges fine with this charger? If not, could it be a charger or breaker issue? It is unlikely that the update broke the charger or else we should have many other reports as many owners use Tesla chargers at home.

Yes, the charger works fine otherwise. The update broke the ability to use the charger, at least for my vehicle. Breaker reset helped a bit - it charged at 10kW for 10 minutes and then stopped.

 

[Adnillien]

The fact that the breaker reset helped implies it is the charger, not the car. As suggested earlier, check the adapter that you are using with the charger.