You can download Tesla app on your phone and look at the menu "Charge your other EV" and it would show you which one can work with a CCS1 car with Magic Dock without the need of waiting for Lucid to get the fleet access.
It shows how many stalls available and which ones are broken.
The issue is there are very few. There only 4 stations in the whole state of California and they are all up in the North only.
Ford and Rivian have incorporated eligible Tesla Supercharger availability (V3 and 4) in their built-in navigation maps so I expect Lucid will do the same when the fleet access will be granted.
It's true that drivers don't know which Supercharger station has short or long cable by looking at their maps right now. But that's irrelevant if the station is empty. However, if there's only one stall available, that's when the information of short or long cable is important because current Lucid charge port requires either long cable or 2 empty slots.
If the Supercharger location doesn't have the longer cables, not only do you have to know if at least two stalls are open, but you also have to know if they're adjacent -- and you have to get there while they're both free.
The larger issues remain, however. If you're looking to charge an EV -- even a Tesla -- you have to use a location that is compatible with your car. In most cases, you have to have an app loaded on your phone and an account established for whichever brand of charger you want to use.
And, in the majority of cases, if it's raining you're going to be standing in the rain while you're trying to get a charge started.
Part of the reason I'm obsessing over these issues is that it's been nine years since we bought our first EV, and the charging situation hasn't improved much in that time.
With our 2015 Tesla, the issue was finding a Supercharger on a trip at a time when there were fewer around, and the car didn't have as much range as now. However, the stations did usually work, and there were seldom lines.
Tesla rapidly expanded their network, though, and finding a Supercharger got easier. However, soon we began to encounter waiting lines at more and more charging stops.
Then we bought the Lucid and swallowed too much of the hype about CCS and Electrify America in particular. What we recently experienced in almost a dozen charging stops on a recent road trip was every single stop but one (at a ChargePoint charger) plagued by inoperative stations, repeated authentication errors, and premature charge terminations. Some of these charging stops took over an hour because of the problems.
I have become very cynical about the determination in this country to make EVs viable for road tripping. The notion that the best we have been able to do comes from the likes of Elon Musk is almost nauseating.
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