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Lucid Gravity Reservation Tracker: Add Your Gravity Reservation
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- Thread starter Daryl75
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Congratulations.
It's very helpful to read the owner's manual.
An EV has instant torque so be cautious when pressing the pedal.
I would learn its energy consumption. I live in central CA that doesn't snow and I would have 100 miles reserved on the battery gauge when I drive: If my next charging destination is 150 miles away, I won't leave until the battery gauge says it has at least 250 miles.
Congrats and welcome to the club!! If u travel any, get PlugShare and learn to use it - pretty simple and eases any range anxiety newcomers may have. Also - practice your responses to “what kind of car is that?”… and of course the immediate follow-up of “who makes it?” (Still get it after almost 2 yrs!). And of course, drive it like u stole it!!
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Welcome to the family brother,
My first advice is to get familiar with the high reg feature to the point where you only have to use the brakes when it’s urgently needed. This will extend the life of your brake pads and extend your range. This is a mental muscle exercise that is developed over time. When you know your usual daily driving routines you will use just the right amount of acceleration and allow regeneration to slow or stop the car.
The second advice I would share, is to take the first 14 days to get comfortable with all the information that car feeds you in terms visual, auditory and tactile. In the beginning it may seem like too much. Over time your mind will process all this input instantaneously for you to make the best decision at that moment.
My third advice is to appreciate the weight and dimensions of what you are driving, this will allow you to enjoy the fabulous engineering and workmanship that has been put into making Lucid.
See you on the road !
My first advice is to get familiar with the high reg feature to the point where you only have to use the brakes when it’s urgently needed. This will extend the life of your brake pads and extend your range. This is a mental muscle exercise that is developed over time. When you know your usual daily driving routines you will use just the right amount of acceleration and allow regeneration to slow or stop the car.
The second advice I would share, is to take the first 14 days to get comfortable with all the information that car feeds you in terms visual, auditory and tactile. In the beginning it may seem like too much. Over time your mind will process all this input instantaneously for you to make the best decision at that moment.
My third advice is to appreciate the weight and dimensions of what you are driving, this will allow you to enjoy the fabulous engineering and workmanship that has been put into making Lucid.
See you on the road !
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Welcome to both Lucid and EV driving! I can only opine on the second (EV driving) at the moment as I have been doing that since 2011, but only will be picking up my Air GT on Sunday! BTW, please DO share your specs (color, interior, options, etc.)…we all do like to geek out on those!
My biggest piece of advice is to understand that the range of EV’s is HIGHLY dependent on driving style. Of course the Air GT has the best range of any EV, so you start with the deck well stacked in your favor, BUT, if you accelerate hard, drive really fast on the highway (consistently north of 70 mph) and drive a lot in cold weather, your range is going to be nowhere near the EPA rated 512 miles you may have thought you bought. That is NORMAL and is NOT something wrong with your car. As a matter of fact, were you to aggressively drive all highway miles at 80 mph in 15 degrees (Fahrenheit) temps, your range might well be 40-50% LESS than EPA rating.
Understanding this and learning how to properly use regenerative braking, preconditioning your car on cold days, accelerating more gently, feathering the accelerator pedal in a way that maximizes regeneration are all techniques you can develop to have a very positive impact on range — if range matters to you.
Of course, you don’t need to worry at all about range unless you are commuting super long distances without the ability to charge at work and/or road tripping a lot and in that case, as Borski (a Mod and frequent contributor here) likes to say, “just drive the car” and enjoy it for being the best driving sedan in the world. Don’t get sucked into the specs / numbers trap that many do with EV’s.
Funny, but on the Ferrari forums (back when I had one of those) NO ONE talks about fuel efficiency — that would be insane. Who buys a Ferrari for efficiency?? Here? Folks are driving a car with 800+ horsepower, that can haul 6,000 pounds to 60 mph in 3 seconds (or less) and some are concerned about how their cars don’t get EPA range when they DRIVE the car like an enthusiast. It saps some of their joy in these amazing vehicles…so, all of this is to say, don’t fall down that rabbit hole! Enjoy your utterly amazing, fantastically engineered car!
My biggest piece of advice is to understand that the range of EV’s is HIGHLY dependent on driving style. Of course the Air GT has the best range of any EV, so you start with the deck well stacked in your favor, BUT, if you accelerate hard, drive really fast on the highway (consistently north of 70 mph) and drive a lot in cold weather, your range is going to be nowhere near the EPA rated 512 miles you may have thought you bought. That is NORMAL and is NOT something wrong with your car. As a matter of fact, were you to aggressively drive all highway miles at 80 mph in 15 degrees (Fahrenheit) temps, your range might well be 40-50% LESS than EPA rating.
Understanding this and learning how to properly use regenerative braking, preconditioning your car on cold days, accelerating more gently, feathering the accelerator pedal in a way that maximizes regeneration are all techniques you can develop to have a very positive impact on range — if range matters to you.
Of course, you don’t need to worry at all about range unless you are commuting super long distances without the ability to charge at work and/or road tripping a lot and in that case, as Borski (a Mod and frequent contributor here) likes to say, “just drive the car” and enjoy it for being the best driving sedan in the world. Don’t get sucked into the specs / numbers trap that many do with EV’s.
Funny, but on the Ferrari forums (back when I had one of those) NO ONE talks about fuel efficiency — that would be insane. Who buys a Ferrari for efficiency?? Here? Folks are driving a car with 800+ horsepower, that can haul 6,000 pounds to 60 mph in 3 seconds (or less) and some are concerned about how their cars don’t get EPA range when they DRIVE the car like an enthusiast. It saps some of their joy in these amazing vehicles…so, all of this is to say, don’t fall down that rabbit hole! Enjoy your utterly amazing, fantastically engineered car!
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