Lucid charging service VS individual membership

[nelslens]

Regarding charging costs -- only way I know of to check the $/kW is via each charging network's own app: I am not aware of any "Gas Buddy" equivalent for centralized price comparisons. Plugshare (app or www) can provide nearly real-time updates from users on congestion, malfunctions, etc. but does not provide pricing.

Tesla is generally the most expensive; Ionna is cheapest, and some brands / locations use "Time Of Use" pricing so morning charges are cheaper than evening, etc. so the only way to predict what you're in for is by checking their app for costs at a specific location.

When using the onboard Lucid navigation (not CarPlay) you can select your preferred charging brands & charger speeds, and you can set a minimum charge that you wish to arrive with -- and the software will populate the charging stops automagically. (You can turn the auto-charging-stops function off if you prefer doing your own planning.)

I use the auto-chargestop function a lot -- every 4-6 weeks we do a 1400 mi. R/T where we want to arrive at our destination on one end (where we have no garage charging) with at least 35%, and we want to return back home (where we can charge in our garage) with as little as 8%.

Once you have these parameters set for your trip, the software will indicate what SOC you should charge to at each stop along the route, and will also automatically pre-condition the battery, starting about 45 mins before arrival at a charger. You can remove / edit the automatically added charging stops but this can be fiddly -- I don't recommend doing so while driving.

 

[ClearlyLucid]

Regarding charging costs -- only way I know of to check the $/kW is via each charging network's own app: I am not aware of any "Gas Buddy" equivalent for centralized price comparisons. Plugshare (app or www) can provide nearly real-time updates from users on congestion, malfunctions, etc. but does not provide pricing.

Tesla is generally the most expensive; Ionna is cheapest, and some brands / locations use "Time Of Use" pricing so morning charges are cheaper than evening, etc. so the only way to predict what you're in for is by checking their app for costs at a specific location.

When using the onboard Lucid navigation (not CarPlay) you can select your preferred charging brands & charger speeds, and you can set a minimum charge that you wish to arrive with -- and the software will populate the charging stops automagically. (You can turn the auto-charging-stops function off if you prefer doing your own planning.)

I use the auto-chargestop function a lot -- every 4-6 weeks we do a 1400 mi. R/T where we want to arrive at our destination on one end (where we have no garage charging) with at least 35%, and we want to return back home (where we can charge in our garage) with as little as 8%.

Once you have these parameters set for your trip, the software will indicate what SOC you should charge to at each stop along the route, and will also automatically pre-condition the battery, starting about 45 mins before arrival at a charger. You can remove / edit the automatically added charging stops but this can be fiddly -- I don't recommend doing so while driving.

Yeah, I’m using the navigation to plot the charging stops as you describe. And I’ve adjusted the waypoint and arrival limits as you describe. And I’ve set my preferred chargers to be only high output chargers. What the car doesn’t seem to do is automatically stop charging when it hits the waypoint SoC limit in the navigation plan. It keeps charging unless I’ve remembered to manually set the pilot screen charge menu to a specific % limit. My goal here is to not overcharge when I can charge much cheaper upon arrival to my home or a friend’s home. It’s a minor inconvenience that would be made easier if the navigation would update the next waypoint SoC while the car is plugged in, but it doesn’t update until you unplug from the charger.

 

[nelslens]

Driver supervision still required when refueling. I'm not sure I'd be a fan of automatic charge limits dictated by the car's Navigation. The trust isn't there yet.

We keep a logbook in the glove box with our charging history: station location, mileage, arrival SOC, departure SOC, and any notes (kW throttled by station etc.) This also fulfills IRS requirements for all our travel business expenses in the event of an audit.

We don't even bother to reset the charge limit at each stop; we simply bip the screen to stop charging when we hit the recommended SOC, usually with a 5-10% leadfoot bonus.

We try to steer ourselves to the faster / more reliable / cheaper charge stations, which are often not what is recommended by the software. Ionna is our go-to whenever possible; EA when they're 350kW, and we resort to Tesla only when the others aren't available as they tend to throttle non-Tesla charge speeds, and they're typically significantly more expensive.

It's cool when a friend or relative lets you charge for free but we don't really stress about whether we've arrived somewhere (or home) "overcharged". The GGT is so insanely efficient that we're just generally smug about our fractional operating cost -- and the amount saved would be typically in the low beer-money zone.

 

[Aka-none]

Please don’t get caught by idling fees. If you set the car to stop charging, you’d better be close to the car as more than a few chargers have idle fees for hogging the charger post charging. I’ve seen $1/minute fees and it doesn’t matter if you are the only car in 100 miles.

So be careful out there.