Each motor is in between one axle, so the front and rear are not actually connected to one another, unlike in a normal ICE car. If a motor locks up, the axle may not be able to turn, which would lock up a set of the wheels.
The internet is a wonderful thing. The internet is a terrible thing. You know about the turtle because you are on this forum. If you weren't, you would be happily driving your Air without a worry in the world. Don't know how many owner forums you've been on over the years but I find it hard to believe you didn't run into posts where people had cars die on them regardless of make/model. Every machine made experiences some failure rendering that device unusable on some scale. You've been fortunate that it has happened to other people and not you. But you are in the vast majority of people who don't experience a catastrophic issue (unless you bought a British car - seems like you were in the minority if you didn't suffer a major problem according to friends that owned some).
Well, as others have posted, maybe they diagnose and order the parts but they might tell you it's whenever the parts arrive. @bunnylebowski has a subaru that waited months for a part. My daughter waited weeks for a part. So unless the part is readily available, even with ICE vehicles, a definitive timeline isn't going to be given. And just like when you have a rare disease, diagnosis of a rare or first of its kind can take a long time even with ICE vehicles. Pretty sure most of us have heard a story of a ICE car needing multiple trips to the shop before they figure out how to fix it.
That's a bit circular: the public disclosure rules are couched in "materiality", and the assumption here is that the number of turtled cars is immaterial....if it's not, then the analysis obviously changes
I requested and received a detailed engineering level description of my RDU failure. This was one of the questions I asked. I learned that the root cause of the failure was an internal manufacturing variance (defect?) in the bi-directional inverter on the RDU. This means that DC energy flows into (to move the wheels) and out of (regenerative braking) this component. Because this component can feed the battery pack and it was deemed unreliable at failure, the power was severely reduced to maintain the health of the battery pack (e.g., I speculate it could erroneously feed AC current back the battery pack if the AC to DC and/or DC to AC converter failed).
Makes sense that the car's computer protects the battery pack at all costs. It's one of the most expensive bits to replace. Thanks for the detailed info.
It’s also ~the only one that can explode, so I’m very happy this is the thing it chooses to protect
Only if the member is as pedantic as I am
What’s even more circular is having two accounts on a forum.
I hope you are joking. I guess I don't think I should have to buy a backup vehicle simply because I purchased a Lucid Air. Further, what good does a second vehicle do me if the Lucid Air fails on the road?
I believe it's more like, every single car in the history of cars has had issues and break downs. So why go into this one any different. Just enjoy it and if it dies then deal with it at that time, but don't let the fear of a future possibility guide your decision and enjoyment of the here and now.
I don’t mean to be critical. But if in the unlikely event your Lucid fails on the road they will arrange a rental vehicle, and either transportation to that vehicle or transport that vehicle to you. If for some reason they didn’t offer that up front, insist on it and it will happen. Both times my vehicle went in for service for issues that did not disable the car, I was given a rental even though I had another car at home, because my wife needed that car. Land Rover, Mercedes, Cadillac, I don’t know man, I’m not any less scared of them.
All prospective buyers have to decide what level of EV risk, and what level of Lucid risk, they're comfortable taking .
Rubbish. Is Lucid supposed to slap a warning label on every car saying “caution battery may fail for a few people and we don’t know why?”. Is Rivian warning everyone about the rare possibility of canopy glass cracking or tonneau cover closers failing or tire inflators breaking?
Where’s the the trout-slap emoji when I need it?Have you worked in a business?...I'm not saying they should or shouldn't disclose, for what ever reasons motivate them...I'm just saying they aren't giving me the info I need to decide...without it, I won't buy...That's a calculus on their part, and one on mine.
Again: they have been forthcoming. You are making assumptions about them not being forthcoming. They cannot tell you about a widespread problem that doesn’t exist.
Okay, don’t buy.
