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I did a short 90 mile test where I drove at or 5mph over the speed limit where I live and I would have gotten at or close to the Edmunds/InsideEVS range on 19” had I kept going, but I’m not interested into charging to 100% then driving to 0% because I don’t have a YouTube channel and nobody drives an EV that way in reality and it’s not fun to drive the speed limit. The point of the range is that you can just drive the car however you want and you’ll have more than one charging option because of the efficiency. I’ve taken multiple trips to Maine, New York, Jersey, and Massachusetts and zero times have I ever had to stress about where to charge. The ONLY time it required even a little planning was in Woodstock NY when where we were staying was 49 miles away from the nearest DC fast charger and it made the most sense to drive to that charger and back and lose 100 miles of range doing so because the other nearby chargers would have cost many hours more time. So if you’re going somewhere a bit more isolated, pretty cool you can make that choice rather than sitting for 6-7 hours to L2 charge the car.
The biggest factors affecting range are drag (60mph has better range than 70mph which has better range than 80mph duh), elevation changes, especially how quickly you change elevation because that either adds more regen or uses a lot more power, and temperature. So just educate yourself about how to drive an EV and accept the fact that yes, the Lucid has the best range of any EV you can buy. Period.
The biggest factors affecting range are drag (60mph has better range than 70mph which has better range than 80mph duh), elevation changes, especially how quickly you change elevation because that either adds more regen or uses a lot more power, and temperature. So just educate yourself about how to drive an EV and accept the fact that yes, the Lucid has the best range of any EV you can buy. Period.
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