So I take back what I said above.
Have attempted 3 times now to charge at our local EA.
I am now one of the masses, plug and play failed and I had to initiate from the app. On doing so, I received 150 kw to begin which slowly went down to 10kw over time.
"power limited by station"
Horrible
That's part of the problem with Electrify America. The charging issues often appear and disappear randomly, sometimes inside of a single visit.
One example was our last stopover in Bushnell, FL. A Mustang Mach-E was the only car plugged in when we pulled up. As we were preparing to plug in, the two guys came over to our car to say they had tried all the plugs and were now charging at the only one that worked. They said they were about to finish, and we could take their space. Since I was already out of the car, I decided to plug in where we were to see what happened. Our charging session went fine.
In Pooler, GA we got a different error message at each plug as we moved around trying to find one that would resume charging. (Our initial plug had added 11% range before the session suddenly stopped and would not restart.)
Even when we were able to charge properly, at every stop there was at least one other car that was experiencing problems.
Pulling into an EA station for a charge is a total crap shoot. You certainly cannot plan a trip with any confidence given such a situation.
Sometimes you might have the alternative of another charge provider, such as EVgo, Blink, or ChargePoint. But that means you'll be paying a stiff price to charge and losing the benefit of the Lucid charging plan that was included in the price of your car. It also means you'll spend additional time if you have to seek another provider -- assuming one is available -- after finding the EA station is a shit show. (As Kyle Conner has noted, those other providers are often concentrated near urban centers and don't have the coverage over long open routes that EA supposedly provides.)
It also means that you cannot safely drive the remaining range down to the point that you don't have enough range to reach an alternate charge provider, thus losing some of the advantage of Lucid's longer range. There were two legs on our trip where the car's range would have let us skip an EA charger and continue to the next one. However, since we had become so worried about an EA station not working, we stopped at interim stations where the car's range would not have otherwise required it. This meant we had to make as many charging stops in our Lucid as we would have had to make in our Model S had we taken it on the trip with its 100-mile shorter range, thus wiping out Lucid's range advantage over the Tesla (whose charging stations are famously reliable).
As the EA problems seem to be worsening, long road trips in our Lucid are becoming less feasible.
