QUESTION Review showing 4.06 miles per kWh with 2025 Air Grand Touring on the highway with 21 Inch Wheels going 73 MPH. Is this even possible!?

[WildRide47]

As I got older, and with traffic clogging roads everywhere, the competition turned from speed to efficiency. I get over 4mi/kWh on almost all road trips. As stated, you need to practice finesse and proactive driving with your right foot and vehicle mass.

How boring.

 

[Genghis]

I’m in the camp of long drives, I’m ok going middle lane at 75 mph, but driving in LA for drives of 1.5 hrs or less (~60 miles), I go with speed of traffic in the faster lanes. My LT kWh is 3.06. ‘23 AGT 21” tires. And I’m OK with that charging from home when I need.

One more note, when I drove to OR from SoCal going 75 mph as average, I did 3.3 kWh with hills and valleys on a 1250 mile roundtrip.

 

[Halodde]

I had a ‘22 AGT loaner with 19” wheels for two weeks earlier this year and found the range on that vastly inferior to my car…more on the order of 3.3 - 3.5 miles/kWh.

Yes! You got exactly what I was trying to get at @j4gates !

I baby the throttle pedal on acceleration and gently lift off for maximum regenerative charge on my AGT.P and cannot achieve the 4.06 even on the exact same wheels and in the similar area.

The Pure Loaner with 19 inch wheels I got while my vehicle is in the service center for a Drive System Error can easily achieve the 5.0 Miles per kWh see below assuming I am driving it like a grandma (Please see picture reference below taken last Friday). Trip A and B is an average I have been raising with my personal record vs other Vehicle Loaner drivers. See further below for the original readings on inception.)

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2025 Air Pure on 19”, Smooth with High Regen, 70s on freeway, 50s on backroads and 35 in town, 13.5k miles (Last Charge figures are all backroad/in town):

It has become clear to me over the last several years of driving my Touring that there are waaaaayyy too many variables to try to make sense of comparing one person's vehicle/efficiency to another's. The screenshots of anything less than 100 miles since last charge are not particularly helpful as they represent such a small distance that terrain and speed differences can lead to irrelevant outcomes. When you consider temperature, wheel size, model, model year, topography, battery health and degradation, even wind speed and direction and then add on variability between drivers, it's damn near impossible to make accurate comparisons. I didn't feel like my car was particularly good or bad with range or efficiency. But it's significantly better now that I just had my battery replaced. As long as you are happy with what you've got, making inaccurate comparisons between cars isn't going to be beneficial. IMHO of course.

 

[mwscan]

Not exactly answering the question, because this is a different trim and different wheel size. 2026 Lucid Air Pure, 19 inch Aeronaut wheels. A drive from Berkeley to Carmel, driving around Carmel a bit, and then down the Big Sur coast as far as McWay Falls and then back to Berkeley. A mixture of city driving, fast freeway driving, and twist-turn up-down California Highway One on the Big Sur coast. Fastest freeway sprint was about 75 mph, for a few miles when fairly heavy traffic allowed. 4.20 m/kwh for the trip. Thick segmented line at the top is number of drives within the overall trip, thin blue line is state of charge, yellow line is elevation changes.