Your car is on 1.2.6, correct? No the nav doesn’t directly avoid tolls but it will recommend up to 3 different routes, and you can click on each one to look at it. If you choose “manage routes”, then you can add waypoints which could allow you to avoid tolls if you know where you’re going, and you can drag and drop the waypoints in any order, which is a great feature I haven’t seen in other cars (although the implementation is just a little clunky).
As for range, I just drove up to Maine from Rhode Island, going between 70-80 most of the way, and got 4.0 mi/kWh. I’ve got 3k miles on the car so you might not get that efficiency right away but it’s doable, and that was in smooth mode with traffic and hills and climate and music and massaging seats and utterly ignoring any eco driving behavior, aside from keeping it in strong regeneration.
Yes. It has 1.2.6 installed. For general routing, ‘up to“ three is the key. Leaving the service center, it gave me 1 option. It is like Waze in in that respect. Adding waypoints as a workaround to force a certain route only is feasible if you know the road you want to avoid. If I am traveling somewhere where I don’t know the roads, it won’t help. For Lucid, I would rather them not try and reinvent the wheel (pun intended. Tesla already did that with their yoke
) There are many very good apps which specialize in navigation - Waze, Apple Maps, Google Maps, ABRP, for examples. They all give vast amounts of customization for the routes you want to see. With CarPlay, the Navigation in its current state would be fine for me And Lucid could focus on other more pressing needs. I ended up just just pulling up Waze on my phone and letting it direct me using the phone voice until I got out of OC. Lucid still wanted me to take the toll road after lunch even though I was closer to the 405, and all three options were for it. After I got to the El Torro Y, I turned off waze and just used the Lucid NAV from that point.
The NAV was fine for locating a charging station, although I knew where they were. but lacks proper information on charer status. It counts plugs and not stations. When I got to EA, all the stations were in use, although the App was showing free. Had to wait 15’ for one to open up. In the meantime, plugged into a L2, but it wouldn’t Recognize the car. Called Lucid and they eventually got EA on the phone to trouble shoot. By the time the 3-way call got going, the L3 station opened up and I plugged in. It worked fine. EA was going to put in a ticket for the L2 as that one should have recognized the car. It was obviously EA and not the car. (FYI - 150 kw plug drew 96kw. Battery was at 65% and I preconditioned before arriving)
Not worried about the efficiency. Haven’t really tested it at this point. Anytime one has a new toy, they like to play with it, and I certainly have not driven for efficiency on these first 100 miles. I was around 3.5 since last charge by the time I got to the EA station. I think it is reading 2.9 for the life of the car, but it started at 1.4 and had 43 miles on the odometer when I got it. It was just eating kW staying cool presumably while sitting in AZ for two months in production. I’ll get a better read on it going from 80% charge to 80% charge over the next few weeks.
