Last road trips with free charging 😢

[Sandvinsd]

My free charging ends in July and we have what are likely our last two trips, in April and May, in the Lucid before that goes away. Not looking forward to having to pay the high electricity costs and may now have to revert to the Sienna, even in expensive gas CA. It will be a cost comparison but with the high electricity costs at stations, the gas car may actually be cheaper. Who would have thought?

 

[Amster]

No time for a road trip for me. My free charging ends this Monday at 6pm. I'm sad.

 

[Buffalo Bob]

If you ask nicely, maybe @borski would hack into the car and change your epoch ending date for you. I heard his free charging doesn't end until October 33rd, 2188.

 

[Amster]

If you ask nicely, maybe @borski would hack into the car and change your epoch ending date for you. I heard his free charging doesn't end until October 33rd, 2188.

That would be really nice!

 

[Buffalo Bob]

That would be really nice!

While he's at it, ask him to bump your horsepower by a couple hundred points, and to restart your warranty.

 

[borski]

If you ask nicely, maybe @borski would hack into the car and change your epoch ending date for you. I heard his free charging doesn't end until October 33rd, 2188.

Mine expired Jan 19 of this year. I’m pretty sure I used EA like a dozen times lol.

 

[borski]

While he's at it, ask him to bump your horsepower by a couple hundred points, and to restart your warranty.

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[fadooly]

Buy a new Air and you will get your free charging back

Problem solved

 

[Cosmo Cruz]

Going to Sunday Meeting in Philadelphia in a few minutes. was just thinking about this before I saw this topic.

Using round numbers to make the math easy: .. 60 mi out and back
Mazda 6 gets 30 mi / gal @ ~ $3.50 gal (cheapest gas) = about $ 7 in gasoline .
Lucid GT gets 3.3 mi / kWh @ ~ $ 0.11 kWh = about $ 2 in electrons.

Think I will make a few trips up to VT and NH before the free EA charging ends this fall, but like borski I haven't been using this as much as I thought I would. Even though there's a 350 EA charger at the Whole Foods ~5 mi from home I rarely use it. I used to go there and get a sandwich while the car is fast-charging, but pocketing twenty bucks only to spend it on a Whole Foods sandwich ... math doesn't work.

Having a home charger is so cheap and effortless, and convenient... I don't understand why someone would buy an EV and not install a home charger (if possible). Because I have fuel any time I need it I set my daily charge limit to 72%, and even then I let the car sit at 50-60%

be the change you want to see in the world.

 

[Buffalo Bob]

Mine expired Jan 19 of this year. I’m pretty sure I used EA like a dozen times lol.

Wow! With PG&E rates what they are, I would have been there all the time!

 

[westofboston]

Going to Sunday Meeting in Philadelphia in a few minutes. was just thinking about this before I saw this topic.

Using round numbers to make the math easy: .. 60 mi out and back
Mazda 6 gets 30 mi / gal @ ~ $3.50 gal (cheapest gas) = about $ 7 in gasoline .
Lucid GT gets 3.3 mi / kWh @ ~ $ 0.11 kWh = about $ 2 in electrons.

Think I will make a few trips up to VT and NH before the free EA charging ends this fall, but like borski I haven't been using this as much as I thought I would. Even though there's a 350 EA charger at the Whole Foods ~5 mi from home I rarely use it. I used to go there and get a sandwich while the car is fast-charging, but pocketing twenty bucks only to spend it on a Whole Foods sandwich ... math doesn't work.

Having a home charger is so cheap and effortless, and convenient... I don't understand why someone would buy an EV and not install a home charger (if possible). Because I have fuel any time I need it I set my daily charge limit to 72%, and even then I let the car sit at 50-60%

be the change you want to see in the world.

Sunday meeting as in a Quaker Meeting or Cars and Coffee?

 

[victoryroad]

Going to Sunday Meeting in Philadelphia in a few minutes. was just thinking about this before I saw this topic.

Using round numbers to make the math easy: .. 60 mi out and back
Mazda 6 gets 30 mi / gal @ ~ $3.50 gal (cheapest gas) = about $ 7 in gasoline .
Lucid GT gets 3.3 mi / kWh @ ~ $ 0.11 kWh = about $ 2 in electrons.

Think I will make a few trips up to VT and NH before the free EA charging ends this fall, but like borski I haven't been using this as much as I thought I would. Even though there's a 350 EA charger at the Whole Foods ~5 mi from home I rarely use it. I used to go there and get a sandwich while the car is fast-charging, but pocketing twenty bucks only to spend it on a Whole Foods sandwich ... math doesn't work.

Having a home charger is so cheap and effortless, and convenient... I don't understand why someone would buy an EV and not install a home charger (if possible). Because I have fuel any time I need it I set my daily charge limit to 72%, and even then I let the car sit at 50-60%
be the change you want to see in the world.

$0.11 kWh is fantastic. I pay $0.15/kWh in VA. According to my research, the EA member rate is $0.31 per kWh plus a $4 monthly fee. It is on par with ICE gas consumption at 30 mpg. I'm not sure that many 5200 pound sedans get 30 mpg, though, so it is not comparable. I assume that, except in some areas, EA pays less than ten cents a kWh. We are a long way from competitive EV station pricing, so we should be grateful for our efficiency.

 

[WCWIII]

When my EA expires next December, I'll leave home at 100% and try to return home close to 10%. On my trips now, I'm looking ahead to see if there are hotel options with compatible free overnight chargers.

I'm getting more and more experienced with EA and grateful that even with the change of ownership, the car has had a year of remaining complementary charging. Now that most of us have linked our Lucid accounts with credit cards (for EA idle fees), you'd think there would be something EA would do to keep us loyal EA customers so we don't immediately go to a competitor with a slightly less kWh rate to save a few bucks. Also, my experience so far is that EA chargers are not so close to good food options ... it wouldn't take much for me to loose my loyalty to EA.

 

[borski]

Wow! With PG&E rates what they are, I would have been there all the time!

I thought I would too. But with solar and batteries, and the convenience, I pretty much only ever used it on road trips.

Occasionally if I was driving to Walnut Creek and back or something I’d charge up at an EA before heading home.

But most of the time? Getting to hug my wife and play with my dog a half hour to an hour faster is well worth $20 or whatever.

 

[Buffalo Bob]

I thought I would too. But with solar and batteries, and the convenience, I pretty much only ever used it on road trips.

Occasionally if I was driving to Walnut Creek and back or something I’d charge up at an EA before heading home.

But most of the time? Getting to hug my wife and play with my dog a half hour to an hour faster is well worth $20 or whatever.

Sounds like you've got your priorities pretty darn straight!

 

[Cosmo Cruz]

Pennsylvania has coal, gas, nuclear, solar, wind, hydro ... the most energy-dense state in the nation. And, unlike the rest of the Nation, moved quickly to spend the deep state money to build chargers:
From today's (30 Mar. 2025) "Inky"
PA spends federal charger money before it's canceled.

 

[hmp10]

Question:

When your free EA charging ends and you've loaded your credit card information into your Lucid wallet, will you just be able to plug & go the same way as when free charging was still in effect (at least those times the EA charger worked)?

 

[Adnillien]

Question:

When your free EA charging ends and you've loaded your credit card information into your Lucid wallet, will you just be able to plug & go the same way as when free charging was still in effect (at least those times the EA charger worked)?

If you have loaded your credit card in the Lucid Charging Plan, Plug and Charge will continue to work just like before.

 

[Buffalo Bob]

If you have loaded your credit card in the Lucid Charging Plan, Plug and Charge will continue to work just like before.

Judging from what I've heard, it'll work even if you only have your credit card loaded into your regular Lucid account. (The one originally for idle fees.)

Does anyone know if the Lucid Charging - Base Plan now offers Lucid owners any discount off EA's rack rate, or the ability to take advantage of their monthly charge discount plan?

 

[hmp10]

If you have loaded your credit card in the Lucid Charging Plan, Plug and Charge will continue to work just like before.

My credit card is loaded into my Lucid Wallet, but it only indicates automatic payments for this:

"Your Lucid Wallet allows you to securely save payment methods for quick use with Lucid subscriptions, services, and merchandise purchases."

There is something called the "Lucid Charging Service" on my mobile app, but it shows no link to a payment method. I could not find anything called "Lucid Charging Plan".

???