I am not so certain of that. There are other posts of that nature. I am beginning to lean that way. I travel a large area of states on a regular basis. I felt like I did my homework. Visited with Lucid sales people over and over in person while I waited the 16 months to take delivery. My biggest concern was charging the car on multi state road trips, which I must make often. The Lucid sales people always were friendly, nice and helpful. They would constantly show me how the Nav will find all of the charging stations, show us how long to charge, and emphasize how quickly and easy (just plug it in at EA) it will charge. They emphasized EA had the largest non tesla network and showed me that EA would be my best bet in some more remote parts of my travels.
I have had a the Nav not work, sound system not work, lots of paint issues (all discovered by Lucid SC), panels freeze, cameras are maybe 50/50, external sensors not working, accident avoidance system doesn’t work (probably related to the sensors not working?), no key warnings, and the big issue for me. The car won’t charge at any EA station. I have been to EA in Pueblo and Trinidad, CO, Gallup, Albuquerque and Santa Fe, NM, Payson, Tempe, Phoenix, and Glendale, AZ. Attempted at multiple charging stations at each location, so maybe 25-27 different chargers or more, some locations I have been to twice to try the chargers again. All of the attempts have been with Lucid and EA on 3 way calls. If EA does not give me a courtesy charge, the car will not charge. It has been that way since day one. The car has been in and out of the service center. It is going back this week for numerous issues. Extremely nice and people who really do want to get the problems fixed. I really can’t state enough how friendly the SC people are. Many, many phone calls and emails with Lucid support. As of this past Friday, Lucid charging support do NOT think it is a PnC problem. They simply don’t have an answer as to why my car won’t charge.
So yes, I can see why Eric may not feel the car meets his needs. I can tell you I love driving the car. I can tell you it most certainly is a beautiful automobile. It seems to be very nicely built. It is not meeting the needs that I have for an automobile. For the most part, it sits in the garage. I can’t trust it will get me where I need to go, which is well outside of its range, EPA or real. If Lucid can get the car to charge reliably, I will feel much more positive about the car. I can live with waiting for the other issues to be fixed. It could be worse. The car has not “bricked”.