thank you for sharing, it is interesting how the pure AWD gives you more range than the Touring, I thought both cars use the same battery pack
“Because we didn't want this list to be 40 percent Lucid Airs, we combined the year's top three range performers into one entry. That's right, one car maker swept the podium in our EV range testing this year.”
Officially America’s most range-efficient EV, and now also America’s most-awarded new luxury vehicle.
Kinda wild we get to drive it daily.
Seems a little low right? I’d imagine that it must have hit 314kw for a very short amount of time. I think you’re supposed to go 10-80% in 22 minutes if I remember correctly which would be much more than 162 miles in 15 minutes.
Read it before! Interesting how the touring vastly underperformed the pure... does rwd make that much of a difference? Probably because of the permanent magnet motors meaning that they have to stay on(although on lucids sapphire presentation they reference "fwd cruising").
“Because we didn't want this list to be 40 percent Lucid Airs, we combined the year's top three range performers into one entry. That's right, one car maker swept the podium in our EV range testing this year.”
Officially America’s most range-efficient EV, and now also America’s most-awarded new luxury vehicle.
Kinda wild we get to drive it daily.
I think I recall hearing in an interview that the Pure RWD actually has some newer motor tech making it slightly more efficient than 2023 Tourings?
Well, the AWD Pure also did better than their Touring. So that doesn't explain it.
Yesterday i saw my GT hit 320 mark for a fraction. Tried to take a pic and couldn't get it in that fraction. Got 168 miles in 12min
They used larger tires for both the pure RWD and Touring. They used an epa estimate of 384 for the touring and 394 for the pure. 394 is the rating on 20s
I know that Tesla track mode allows you to transfer the bias from front to back up to 100% which I think would simulate that but unsure if Tesla totally turns off the unused motors or not. Unsure about others.
The Kia EV9 can do this. I think it’s how the Taycan is able to beat EPA also.
Lucid uses permanent magnet motors with no disconnect from the drive line so there is no way to completely turn off one motor. I spoke with Eric Bach about freeway cruising at the LA Auto Show. He told me that during normal freeway driving below 85 mph, the software biases almost all power to the front drive unit. When you accelerate of go faster, the bias reverts back to the the rear drive unit. In other words, Lucid software is already optimizing efficiency at normal freeway speeds. That is not to say that Lucid cannot continue to optimize this but according to Eric, a lot of thought has already gone into this.
Many EV makers do this. Some use a clutch to disconnect one of the motors except for certain drive modes. Others us a combination of AC induction motors, which can be powered down and essentially freewheel (but aren't as efficient at a steady speed), and permanent magnet motors which don't freewheel well, but are more efficient overall.
